Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 43 is to explore with the Government what sort of defence there would be when a subscriber to an internet access service allows another person to use the service and that other person infringes a copyright. The Minister said helpfully in response to my Amendment 82 that he would write to Members of the Committee setting out a series of things that a communal...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What advice have they issued to internet service providers about (a) obtaining consent from, and (b) informing internet users and website owners about, trials of new technologies that utilise deep packet inspection or cookies or both.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they intend to issue further guidance to Ofcom on the relationship between internet service providers, search engines and the public's awareness of what information interception, storage and monitoring may occur when they use the internet.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the sufficiency of implied consent for the interception for commercial purposes of internet users' unencrypted communications by internet service providers.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...Majesty's Government what advice or opinions the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure issued to the Home Office, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and internet service providers regarding the trials of internet service provider-based behavioural targeting in 2006 and 2007.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: My noble friend mentioned the very high volume of trade that takes place over the internet. Do I understand from the Minister that the Government intend to make sure that anyone advertising puppies for sale on the internet will have to have a licence number?
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the advice of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office that copyright applies to computing and the internet in the same way as material in other media, and whether they consider that all unencrypted material published on the internet is public domain and therefore free from copyright.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...what was their response to the European Commission following the infraction proceedings commenced in April 2009 by the Commission for non-implementation of the European Community laws protecting internet users under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426) with regard to the interceptions which occurred during the BT Phorm trials of web...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...think the legislation here will have on corporate and communal facilities. As the Bill is drafted, I find it hard to understand what the effect will be, other than negative, on, for example, an internet café. Internet cafés and communal wi-fi, such as that being pioneered by Swindon, are aimed at exactly what I thought the Government were trying to include: digital inclusivity to enable...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...said underlines the glaring omission from this Bill of any rights given to users of the digital economy-the citizens. The Government could have chosen to draft a clause setting out the rights of internet users, because the digital economy should bring lots of rights to those who use it. Among those would be the right to have all the ways that fraud can take place on the internet explained....
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...say that I have never found it in the past to be an organisation that has been anything other than reasonable and logical. BT says that, "it is not clear which of the definitions of 'subscriber' or 'internet service provider' would apply to account holders such as businesses, organisations and householders whose internet connections are or can be used to provide internet access for many...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...concern with this whole debate is that whatever we conclude here, the other place will not be able to spend any time scrutinising what is actually an incredibly important change in the way that the internet is dealt with. The Minister almost implied that the Government needed power in times of crisis. This is not a national crisis: this it still a matter of civil copyright infringement....
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What action they are taking to ensure that all areas of Britain, including remote rural areas, have access to infrastructure that allows them the same speed of internet communication as cabled urban areas.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to set up an information resource on the Internet to offer advice on consumer products and more sustainable consumption choices.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked the Chairman of Committees: Whether alterations to the internet search engine for Hansard have meant that entries from June 2006 onwards are no longer searchable by name.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked the Chairman of Committees: Further to his Written Answer on 16 October (WA 175), when the solution to the technical error affecting House of Lords Official Report entries on the internet will be rolled out.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to promote tolerant understanding of Islam on the internet.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether internet service providers are accountable for hosting websites with content that promotes terrorism; and if so, how.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the effectiveness of requiring internet service providers to block websites with extremist content in reducing Islamic extremism.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government: What guidance they have issued to internet service providers on when and how they can intercept their customers' website use; and what information they have made available to the public about the privacy issues involved.
