British Library may foil Tories plan to delete their Internet history

According to Computer Weekly, the Tories have tried to delete records of their previous speeches from the Internet. Various tricks have been used such as robot blockers. However, they seem to have forgotten that the British Library has been archiving the UK Web since the mid-2000s. You can see snapshots of old Tory party sites here.

Tags: British Library, Computer Weekly, Conservative Party, Web archiving

This entry was posted on November 13, 2013 at 3:15 pm and is filed under Comment, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “British Library may foil Tories plan to delete their Internet history”

BigR Says:
November 18, 2013 at 1:37 pm | Reply
That will be their budget cut then…

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Tech Lunch