Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Phoebe Braithwaite writes for WIRED UK. She was formerly a submissions editor at openDemocracy. She tweets at @phoebraithwaite.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesOur data doubles: how biometric surveillance ushers in new orders of controlThe use of biometric data brings the border within the body: algorithms' apparent objectivity and efficiency obscure...
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Published in: 50.50How UK anti-abortion activists use American tactics to shock and shame women50 years after the 1967 Abortion Act, the anti-abortion movement is consolidating – with transatlantic support.
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Published in: Shine A LightRefuse, retract, resist: boycott the schools censusAs the British state tries to make a register of foreign-born children, parents should question a liberal trust in...
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Published in: HomeCan platforms be repurposed for progressive ends?The dream, for platform cooperators, is to supersede these Silicon giants with cooperatively-owned-and-run labour...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWaking up to the UK’s Investigatory Powers ActThe myth that ‘this is a liberal democracy, these things don’t happen here’ is shattered. And now we have created an...