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    Regulating the web, the Open Internet and Net Neutrality

    Wednesday, 20 May, 2015

    • Insight
    • Security
    • Technology
  • Research Briefing

    Regulating the web: The open internet and net neutrality

    Monday, 18 May, 2015

    Net neutrality is the concept that all information and services should have equal and open access online without regard to content, destination or source. Both net neutrality—and the associated concept of the ‘open internet’—are considered to be founding principles of the World Wide Web. Concerns that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are looking to circumvent net neutrality principles—deciding how fast data will be transmitted and at what quality—have led to campaigns to explicitly legislate for net neutrality. Without net neutrality campaigners fear a two-tiered service with fast and slow lanes could develop. In the past few years, the EU and other countries have attempted to explicitly legislate to ensure Internet Service Providers (ISPs) operate in a net neutral fashion.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • EU institutions
    • Technology
  • Research Briefing

    UK Fishing Quota Agreements for 2015

    Monday, 22 December, 2014

    This House of Commons Library Standrad Note summarises the negotiations and decisions taken over UK fishing quota agreements for 2015 made under the reformed Common Fisheries Policy.

    • Research Briefing
    • Environment
    • Farming and fishing
  • Research Briefing

    Serious Crime Bill

    Thursday, 18 December, 2014

    This Bill would make changes aimed to strengthen the law on the recovery of the proceeds of crime. It would make amendments to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to update existing offences. It would also provide for a new offence of participating in the activities of an organised crime group and make changes to Serious Crime Prevention Orders and gang injunctions. The Bill would provide for the seizure and forfeiture of substances used as drug-cutting agents. It would also amend the offence of child cruelty, create a new offence relating to the possession of ‘paedophile manuals’ and amend the law on Female Genital Mutilation. The Bill would create a new offence of unauthorised possession of a knife or other offensive weapon in prison and confer extra-territorial jurisdiction on the courts in respect of certain terrorism offences.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • Criminal law
    • Prisons
    • Security
  • Insight

    Public forest estate sell-off – what next?

    Monday, 08 December, 2014

    • Insight
    • Environment
  • Research Briefing

    The Forestry Commission and the sale of public forests in England

    Monday, 01 December, 2014

    This note sets out information on the sale of public forests managed by the Forestry Commission

    • Research Briefing
    • Animals
    • Environment
    • Farming and fishing
    • Housing and planning
  • Research Briefing

    Online safety: Content filtering by UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

    Friday, 21 November, 2014

    This a research paper summarising government policy on the introduction of internet filters iby UK Internet Service Providers

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • Technology
  • Research Briefing

    Household Safety (Carbon Monoxide Detectors) Bill [Bill 26 of 2014-15]

    Wednesday, 10 September, 2014

    Carbon monoxide is an invisible, tasteless and odourless gas. This Private Member's Bill aims to introduce a requirement that a functioning carbon monoxide detector must be installed in all newly built and all rented residential properties.

    • Research Briefing
    • Business
    • Housing and planning
    • Rented housing
  • Insight

    Broadband in the UK: Super-Fast, Faster, Fastest?

    Tuesday, 02 September, 2014

    • Insight
    • Technology

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