In the past couple of days the EU Parliament has adopted a document on the internet, our rights and policing it. Handily, OUT-LAW has an article covering bits of it. "Handily" because the text itself is impenetrable; it's a collection of sentence fragments and legal phrases (I find mentally deleting the word "whereas" every time you see it makes the text infinitely more readable).

Below is attached the final text version of the letter sent to Helen Southworth and passed onto the Digital Britain Team. I believe it is not listed in the responses to the report but believe this is because they considered it private correspondence rather than because they are hiding it (the letter did have my name and address on it originally so I've snipped that from this copy). The bit in italics was a footnote in the original.

So, I finished the response to the Digital Rights Agency Report mentioned in my earlier post (interesting has a very high (for this site) viewing figures very quickly). So that it's available in an accessible form as possible I have reproduced it below and attached the final version in ODF.

I hope it goes without saying that this is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License as is all content posted to this site. I'm going to try and do all such comments in a similar format (rather than the letter) and am also trying to put together some form of bio I can attach so that'll be going up soon too.

Recently, the Digital Britain Team released another consultation paper to further flesh out their thoughts on a Digital Rights Agency. Comments are requested by 30th March (Monday), so I only have this weekend to finish it off and get the comments sent in.

I get home today and see a yellowy envelope face down on the floor. I recognise it - I've had two before. Picking it up and turning it over confirms it's from the my concerns over MPs expenses and Freedom of Information sent on 21st January? Or is it my comments on the Digital Britain report sent on Wednesday (10th February)?

So, last week, an interim report on Digital Britain was released. I have read the report and I've just finished a letter to my MP on the subject and thought I'd share it with you for last minute comment before I send it. Some stuff is in line with The Open Rights Group initial response other bits are stuff I've added. Text is behind the cut...

Alex
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