Neowin News Feed for: Parliament

Data (Use and Access) Bill faces pushback over AI and creative rights in UK parliament

Fiza Ali — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:18:01 +0000

The UK is deciding how to balance AI growth with protecting creative work, as a major copyright bill faces strong opposition in Parliament. Read more...

UK proposes law to consider crypto assets as regular financial instruments

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:58:01 +0000

UK policy makers have proposed an amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill to recognize cryptocurrencies as regulated financial instruments and products in the country. Read more...

UK porn age check law comes to parliament for first reading

Paul Hill — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:52:01 +0000

The UK government is introducing its Online Safety Bill before parliament today for its first reading. MPs will be able to debate on the wide-ranging legislation that could bring age checks for porn. Read more...

MPs: it would be unacceptable for UK to miss 2025 gigabit goals

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:54:02 +0000

A committee of UK MPs has called on the government to lay out more details about its plans to connect 85% of premises to gigabit broadband by the year 2025 after it climbed down on previous plans. Read more...

Guy Verhofstadt to push European Parliament to take measures against fake news

Sharath Ravishankar — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:50:02 +0000

MEP Guy Verhofstadt says that in September, he will push the European Parliament towards taking measures against Russian disinformation campaigns over social media and the internet. Read more...

Uganda imposes tax on social media platforms to 'stop gossip'

Usama Jawad — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:30:01 +0000

It appears that the Ugandan government has found a way to prevent its citizens from excessively using social media. The country has passed a law which imposes a daily tax on social media users. Read more...

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg won't go before UK committee, CTO or CPO to appear instead

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:16:01 +0000

Facebook has announced that Mark Zuckerberg will not attend the committee hearing regarding Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data obtained from Facebook. The company will send its CTO or CPO. Read more...

Pirate Party makes a breakthrough in Czech elections

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 01:40:01 +0000

The Pirate Party in Czechia has won 22 of the 200 seats in the country's national parliament. If everything goes their way, they'll be heading up the opposition in the country very soon. Read more...

Australian Parliament considers implementing electronic voting for MPs

Boyd Chan — Mon, 02 May 2016 10:08:01 +0000

After a similar recommendation failed to progress almost 20 years ago, a Lower House committee of Australian Parliament has dusted off a proposal to allow MPs to cast votes using smart cards. Read more...

Russia prime suspect in German parliament cyber breach

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 10:23:57 +0000

Russia is the prime suspect in what looks like a state-sponsored cyber attack upon the German parliament. The Bundestag's network was compromised and data was transferred outside of the country. Read more...

Google News to be shut down in Spain

Usama Jawad — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:50:01 +0000

Google News will be shutting down in Spain in less than a week, ahead of the reform in tax laws due in January. The company won't integrate Spanish publishers in its news feed due to this tax as well. Read more...

European Parliament votes to break up Google

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:42:01 +0000

Amid a number of antitrust complaints, the European Parliament has voted on a proposal that would see Google's search services spun-off into a separate company, away from the company's other products. Read more...

BT: Content Connect "will not create a two-tier internet"

Mike Brown — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:01:13 +0000

In a statement released earlier today, BT denied claims that its upcoming Content Connect service contradicts its position of supporting net neutrality. Envisioned as an opportunity for content providers to strike up deals with ISPs... Read more...

Anonymizer services grow with UK piracy bill

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:48:01 +0000

Earlier this month the UK passed the Digital Economy Bill, as a side effect anonymizer services has seen an increase in customers. Part of the bill requires the ISPs to put in speed blocks, bandwidth shaping,... Read more...

British Parliament launches a computer game

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:42:28 +0000

Young people will soon be able to get a taste of what it is like to be a "MP for a Week", as the Parliament Education Service releases their own computer game. Commons speaker, John... Read more...

European Parliament Scraps Software Patent Law Proposal

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:17:18 +0000

A proposed law intended to bring together the software patent rules of 25 countries in the European Union has been criticized by the European Parliament, which threw out the proposal and demanded that the decision-making... Read more...

European Parliament adopts 'Echelon' report

Sun, 09 Sep 2001 09:02:57 +0000

(IDG) -- The European Parliament Wednesday adopted a report that says the global electronic-surveillance network known as "Echelon" does exist. Some 367 members of the European Parliament voted to support the report, which... Read more...