I want to write to Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
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.
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: ...place. On the other hand, he could have chosen to quote from Professor Todd Kendall who presented his paper to Stanford Law School. It showed that as the United States brought in access to the internet at a different rate in the 50 states—not intentionally—a 10 per cent increase in internet access yielded a 7.3 per cent decrease in reported rapes. The purpose of quoting that is to show...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...had with the rapid evidence assessment that the Minister sent me between Committee and Report is that I discovered in reading it that an awful lot of the assessed evidence was produced before the internet was even widely available. Worse, however, is the fact that one of the assessors was one of those who wrote some of the research paper. That is particularly reprehensible. I have had...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...Government have veered far away from the definition in the Obscene Publications Act. One of our wishes is that this part should bring into line what the OPA does for producers of material with an internet age to address the fact that this material can be produced outside the UK. The sort of definition we would be looking at would be one that has been tried and tested in the courts under...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...regime is too weak and needs revision. Those conclusions have been backed up by numerous committees of both Houses. In your Lordships' House, the Science and Technology Committee's report, Personal Internet Security, urged the Government to introduce measures such as this and recognised that existing penalties for offences were quite inadequate. Your Lordships' Constitution Committee...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...for his letter of 29 February which further expanded how the Government seek better to define their intention in this clause. Our difficulty with the clause is that this material is seen on the internet by someone in the privacy of their own home and is produced abroad so it cannot be caught by the Obscene Publications Act, as the Minister said. Therefore, the first person to judge...
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: ...and to develop it in totally new areas".—[ Official Report, Commons, 28/06/00; col. 907.] He spoke of three developments to do this: first, establishing the universal bank; secondly, providing internet access and exploiting e-commerce; and, thirdly, having an enhanced role in government services. We know what has happened in the six years since then: the Post Office has had a declining...
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: ...the animal equivalent of the car boot sale. I hope that in Committee we will spend some time discussing the exact definitions of "a fair" and "a show" and the Government's regard of those. The internet is the very modern version of the pet fair. There is little point in spending huge amounts of time in the Bill regulating pet shops and kennels and loading requirements on them if nothing is...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...people have to communicate their community's events. That is not entirely to defend the nuisance it causes, and I am glad to say that most young people, being so much better than us at using the Internet, are finding other ways to post important information to each other. Indeed, they are using mobile telephone texting. Some countries, however, have a far more generous provision of...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...in new technology—such as microgeneration—which, as a result of amendments in your Lordships' House we now have on the face of the Bill. My amendment proposes that easy access to much more than Internet advice, which is all that is available now, needs to be provided in the high streets of towns with a population of more than 40,000—not every high street in every village and small...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: .... That applies especially to environmental issues. This debate is a good example of many of the issues about which people are talking theoretically. However, I was disappointed to receive via the Internet this evening the news that Greece has apparently pushed back to the second half of the year the EU chemicals review deal, thereby reinforcing the fears of the chairman of the committee. I...
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: ...give older people, families and children a specially tailored information and transactions service in their local post offices, not only by face to face access across the counter, but also using Internet kiosks, web phones, telephone links, help-lines and surgeries. These will provide new health services, and general community and educational information". That was a good vision and I hope...
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: ...that such enterprises should provide essential village services and that their turnover in food should comprise more than 50 per cent. However, it is a fact that nowadays one might find that an Internet cafe had been established. Its main turnover would not be in catering, through supplying coffee, cakes and so forth to those coming into the cafe to use the essential service of Internet...
