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  • Internet giants pledge action to curb child pornography online
    London (CNN) -- Internet giants signed up Tuesday to a "zero tolerance" approach to images of child sexual abuse as the British government announced a new, tougher strategy to find and block illegal content. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter and [CNN International]
  • Zain Kuwait launches competitive rates on Internet roaming services to UK and ...
    This package allows them 100MB of mobile Internet data access, and the service can be accessed by manually selecting Vodafone UK as the roaming network upon arrival in the country. Customers can enjoy the new rates by simply sending a text message  [AME Info (press release)]
  • Less porn for you: UK ISPs will enact auto-filtering of adult content by the ...
    Relax, you can still watch porn in the United Kingdom, but it's about to become a bit harder. As reported in Wired, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country will ?make filtering a standard option across industry.? If you don't act, parental [The Next Web]
  • Report: UK spies hacked foreign diplomats, bugged Internet cafe
    LONDON ? The Guardian newspaper says the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails when the U.K. hosted international conferences, even going so far as to set up a bugged Internet café in an  [al.com (blog)]
  • UK regulator seeks to block card payments to PornHub
    At the same meeting, David Cameron's special advisor on preventing the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood, Claire Perry, said that by 2014 ISPs in the UK would provide parental internet filters as standard. Labour's Shadow Health Minister  [Wired.co.uk]
  • UK government is allegedly involved in US internet spying program PRISM
    A major intelligence agency in the United Kingdom is part of the US government's massive secret internet user spying program PRISM, according to leaked documents obtained by The Guardian. The UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ),  [The Verge]
  • Britain tells airlines not to fly NSA leaker Edward Snowden to UK
    The official said such alerts are issued to carriers that fly into the U.K and any carrier that brings Snowden will be liable to be fined 2,000 British pounds ($3,193 Cdn). He said Snowden would likely have been deemed by the Home Office to be [CBC.ca]
  • Shop Direct makes up for lost time online
    Many of its rivals have already bet heavily on the web. The United Kingdom remains Europe's single biggest, most mature and most competitive e-commerce market. In 2012, the 161 U.K. web merchants ranked in the 2013 Europe 500 generated combined  [InternetRetailer.com]
  • Boffer.co.uk ? An innovative new daily deal website for retailers
    Those who sell online have the advantage of relatively low overhead costs. They also have the potential to attract clients from all over the globe. In the U.K. alone, over 52 million people utilised the Internet in 2012. Additionally, according to the [Journalism.co.uk (press release)]
  • UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation
    The UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world's biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America's top spy agency, documents obtained by the Guardian  [The Guardian]
  • news compiled : June 18, 2013

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