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Safer Internet Day: How to Keep Our Kids Safe in the Digital World?

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06 Feb Technology

Safer Internet Day: How to Keep Our Kids Safe in the Digital World?

Today marks Safer Internet Day, an annual celebration aimed at raising awareness of the importance of having a safer and better internet for everyone, especially children and young people. It’s vital that online safety is prioritised to address issues such as cyberbullying, inappropriate content, privacy breaches, and identity theft.

11 May 2023 Technology

Government must go further to crack down on ruthless fraudsters

Fraud is the most common crime in the country, representing 41 per cent of all crime in England and Wales. One in 15 of us became victims last year.

19 Apr 2023 Technology

Everything you need to know about the Online Safety Bill

The Online Safety Bill has had a long route through Parliament, now entering the committee stage in the House of Lords with amendments that span across more than 100 pages to be debated.

27 Feb 2023 Home affairs

It's high time Parliament takes on the predatory pornography industry

Recent headlines on the topic of porn have been about a Member of Parliament watching it – rather than legislating on it – which is both damning and unsurprising.

14 Feb 2023 Home affairs

We must give small businesses the support they need to stand up to cyber criminals

For businesses up and down the United Kingdom, remote working is now the norm. A survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that, for most of 2022, more than a third of workers in the UK were using a hybrid model of working.

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07 Feb 2023 Economy

How The UK’s Mobile Operators Are Making The Internet A Safer Place

Today marks the 20th edition of Safer Internet Day. The awareness campaign has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar each year, and is celebrated in around 180 countries and territories worldwide.

03 Feb 2023 Culture

The Online Safety Bill needs more robust protections for children – we cannot afford further delay

Like many Members of the House of Lords, I am a grandparent. As with most grandfathers, when I see stories on the news of children harmed by social media, I am troubled.

02 Feb 2023 Culture

We can no longer support the Online Safety Bill

Around the world, children are being exposed to violent and inappropriate content online with sometimes devastating results.

The largest engineering project you have never heard of...

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19 Jan 2023 Communities

The largest engineering project you have never heard of...

As you read this, Openreach is delivering one of the UK’s largest civil engineering projects. Building life-changing technology to over three million homes a year. That is faster than any other builder in the UK.

17 Jan 2023 Culture

The Online Safety Bill must be strengthened to protect women and girls from online Wild West

Almost every woman I know has experienced some form of harassment online.

Net Neutrality Regulations – it is time to examine the evidence

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10 Jan 2023 Culture

Net Neutrality Regulations – it is time to examine the evidence

Net Neutrality is intended to be a force for good when it comes to our digital infrastructure, but we need to consider whether it is actually delivering the positive impact it claims.

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10 Jan 2023 Culture

New Report Highlights How UK Net Neutrality Regulations Are Failing Consumers, Innovators, And Investors

Strand Consult, an independent consultancy focussing on the telecoms industry for over 25 years, has published a new report which finds that the UK's net neutrality regulations are harming consumers, innovators, and investors. Further, it highlights that those countries which do not have strict net neutrality rules have demonstrated consistent improvement in consumer welfare, broadband investment, broadband speed, 5G innovation, and consumer value, suggesting that the UK is being held back by unnecessary regulations surrounding net neutrality.

14 Dec 2022 Economy

Ending data poverty is vital as the cost of living crisis worsens

The last few years have seen our lives transformed by digital technology.

Protecting digital democracy is in everyone’s interest

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14 Jul 2022 Economy

Protecting digital democracy is in everyone’s interest

If we get the Online Advertising Programme right, we can shape the future of digital for the better.

How the Online Safety Bill jeopardises the foundation of security online

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17 May 2022 Home affairs

How the Online Safety Bill jeopardises the foundation of security online

Undermining encryption means the Online Safety Bill in its current form is not fit for purpose.

Safeguarding the Metaverse: Why regulation must not lose pace with emerging technologies

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20 Apr 2022 Education

Safeguarding the Metaverse: Why regulation must not lose pace with emerging technologies

Technological change can be rapid and bewildering. Aspects of technology that are now commonplace would have been simply unimaginable just a few years ago.

30 Mar 2022 Communities

Levelling Up Can Only Be Delivered If Broadband Is Accessible For All Rural Communities

Poor broadband connectivity and mobile phone signal are still endemic in rural communities, and must be fixed if ministers want to deliver their levelling up agenda.

22 Nov 2021 Economy

Social war: Will the Online Safety Bill keep us safe?

From Myspace to the Metaverse, our online space has changed dramatically over the last two decades – and now legislation is having to play catch up. Georgina Bailey reports on whether the much-heralded Online Safety Bill can bring about the changes needed.

19 Nov 2021 Education

Tech Entrepreneur Martha Lane-Fox Warns Digital Divide Forcing Families To Choose Between Data Or Food

Tech entrepreneur and former UK digital champion Baroness Lane-Fox says the country must work harder than ever to tackle its deepening digital divide as we emerge from the pandemic.

16 Nov 2021 Social affairs

Is ending anonymity the price to pay for online safety?

Home Secretary Priti Patel’s suggestion that the government could look at restricting online anonymity in the wake of the killing of veteran Conservative MP Sir David Amess highlights the difficult balance lawmakers must strike in regulating powerful social media companies to reduce online harm while protecting those who need to hide their identity to speak truth to power.

The Online Safety Bill puts the security of all citizens and communities at risk

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15 Jun 2021 Home affairs

The Online Safety Bill puts the security of all citizens and communities at risk

Prohibiting end-to-end encryption is not the way to keep people safe online in an increasingly unstable world.

The digital revolution leaving millions behind

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11 May 2021 Education

The digital revolution leaving millions behind

The pandemic has unmasked a stark digital divide that excludes too many from online life – so how can we fix it?

06 May 2021 Economy

Now is the time to realise the potential of open banking

We should roll out open banking to open everything, setting the new global standards for simple, safe data sharing in future and establishing a strong digital image of a new post-Brexit global Britain.

How a full fibre broadband network can help the UK to build back greener

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06 May 2021 Environment

How a full fibre broadband network can help the UK to build back greener

Openreach is connecting even more of the UK to full fibre broadband – but it has also scaled up its commitments to sustainability, social responsibility and cutting waste.