Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Why we need to stop the data retention proposals
I’ve just had this article posted on the Index on Censorship site
..we need to stand up against the plans because even if the current proposals can be justified as a proportionate measure –– and remember that only details of sender and receiver are being stored, not the content of the messages themselves –– mission creep [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Who is responsible in our cloudy world?
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
In the next few days [in fact it is now published] a number of large technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are going to announce that they have signed up to a voluntary code of conduct on how they do business in countries that curtail [...]
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Show me your papers
I have a passport again, having lost my old one somewhere between Cambridge, Leicester and Corby on a trip last month. The old one has been cancelled, so nobody pretending to be me will be leaving the country on it – and I suspect that it’s actually somewhere completely unexpected in the house and will [...]
