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EC says society needs an 'Internet people trust'
A FAST AND TRUSTWORTHY INTERNET is what Europeans need, says the European Commission, in a report that largely tells us what we already know.
According to the EC's Digital Competitiveness report, TV on demand is one example of a new and growing application that will require connection speeds of above 10Mbps in future. But only 18 per cent of European Union citizens have above 10Mbps now. Most fixed broadband lines in the EU are lagging far behind at just 2Mbps. Sadly the report says nothing of MMPORGs and their future needs for broadband.
Pointing out that the EU broadband market is the world's largest, the report says, "[The EU's] Europe 2020 [strategy] set ambitious targets for all Europeans to have access to broadband at 30Mbps or above. Higher speeds will require a move to next generation access networks."
Unsurprisingly, the countries that are beating the pants off Europe with the installation of next generation networks are South Korea and Japan.
Citing trust as a key part of peoples' readiness to go online, the report states that 60 per cent of EU citizens are using the Internet regularly but only around half of those buy goods over the web. And of those, less than half are buying products from outside their own country.
These figures for European activity echo studies of US web surfing, where 56 per cent of people use the web daily, with more grey-haired surfers being Americans than Europeans. However in both the EU and the US, about one third of the population has never been online.
The report will lead to a Digital Agenda for Europe, the first EC 'flagship initiative' to be launched under the Europe 2020 strategy for economic growth. µ
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When will they realise that being an adult human isn't about relying on a government to make sure everything trustworthy but being able to rationally figure out who to trust yourself.
People need to make up their own minds and some will get burned but that's a life lesson.
Remember, you can't win a lottery if you didn't buy a ticket and it's not up to the government to bail you out for your stupidity.
an internet that people can trust?
the politicians had better stay away then!!
Something like Trusted Computing then. Where someone else tells you what you can do... The internet becomes a bunch of walled gardens run by corporations and monitored by government snoops.
I too understood the trustworthy to mean a reliable service, but then I downloaded the pdf and searched for 'trust' and I guess that was a too rosy thought, they do actually mean 'clamped down like former easter germany' when they say 'trust' D:
Pascal, I hope that "trustworthy" means "reliable", as I supposedly have 21 Mbps on my phone, except when there is no service...
How can it be trustworthy if it remains (semi-)anonymous ?
Is this the first step in an official Big-Brotherization of the Internet as we know it ?
Because, excuse me if I sound like a liberal hippie moron, but trust is only possible if each and every user is authenticated to the Internet. And that means that each user logging on will be immediately identifiable by a unique session-independant ID.
And I'll be damned if advertisers take more than a quarter of a millisecond to realize just how they take advantage of THAT.
So, I have to ask myself : do I really want the Internet to be fast and trustworthy ? No, fast will do well enough.
Do I want my mail to be trustworthy ? Definitely.