Tag archive for ‘wifi’
Digital Economy Bill Unconference and Workshops
I’m excited to announce that the Open Rights Group, in association with the GIST foundation, is hosting a free unconference and workshop on the Digital Economy Bill in Sheffield this month:
Date:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Time:
13:30 – 21:00
Location:
The Showroom Café Bar, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX
The Digital Economy Bill will affect you:
If your home Internet-connection contract is [...]
Wifi is not a health risk
The Daily Mail has once again disgraced itself by promoting the scientifically discredited view that wifi networks are harmful to health. On November 19 it published an article by Alasdair Philips that said some remarkable things about electromagnetic radiation.
Under the headline “Is electro smog causing your headache?” Philips claims that plans to wifi-enable towns such [...]
Should you worry about Wi-Fi ‘health risks’ to children?
Are your children being harmed at school because invisible Wi-Fi radiation is frying their brains?
It’s an arresting question, and media outlets as large as the Independent and the BBC have been asking it in recent weeks, however the answer is “no they’re not”. Here’s why:
Wi-Fi transmissions are hundreds of times lower than the World Health [...]
Home WiFi users warned over lax security
Two people have been cautioned for using people’s wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission, according to the BBC.
There was a segment on this story on Radio 4’s PM program this evening. Some guy from West Mercia police was scare-mongering about people with unsecured WiFi connections being accused of terrorism or child pornography offenses if someone [...]