More than 200 pirate domains blocked

A fresh wave of site blocking has hit the UK’s already long list of outlawed pirate domains, but this time there’s an unexpected new enforcer. Cloudflare, normally seen as a neutral web infrastructure provider, is now showing “Error 451 – Unavailable for Legal Reasons” to users trying to access dozens of domains linked to streaming and download piracy.

Regulators looking into major privacy howler

Virgin Media O2 has managed to bungle mobile security so badly that anyone with one of its SIM cards could track other users to the nearest mast for nearly two years.

That will be £50,000 and a ton of bad publicity

For a while now, at least in Italy, mobile phone companies have believed that they can ring or text you when they like, but now it seems regulators are starting to order them to put the brakes on.

Major shake up for UK comms

Liberty Global and Telefónica have revealed that their respective UK subsidiaries, cable company Virgin Media and mobile operator O2, are to merge in a move which will mean a real shake up for the UK comms industry.