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Published in: HomeMistaking omniscience for omnipotenceEveryone assumes the value of an increasingly para-militarized, bureaucratized, heavily funded creature we continue...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Orwellian arithmetic of mass surveillance
The justifications for indiscriminant mass surveillance are becoming increasingly absurd. False calls to patriotism...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNot just 4 lulz: Anonymous vs mass surveillance
Anonymous yesterday organised a simultaneous protest around the world against the revelations of mass surveillance...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK/US relationship is alive and well
The UK government continues to use the potential embarrassment of the White House as an argument against justice and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill the US condemn UK's attempt to use 'Terrorism' laws to suppress journalism?The UK government has decided that journalism can be classed and pursued as "terrorism" in the courts. This is...
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Published in: openSecurityThe promise, and problems, of mobile phones in the developing world
In the rush to spread the information revolution, digital development agendas pose an increasing threat to privacy....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKick starting a movement against mass surveillance
Next week will see a public meeting in London discussing what we can do about the rise of mass government...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'Stronger oversight' of GCHQ - how?
A degree of surveillance is necessary, but key to its functioning in a democracy must be oversight and...
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Published in: HomeNo more sourcesRevelations by Edward Snowden, National Security Agency dissident, have grave implications for the role of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe 1840s privacy panic - lessons from historyState interception of postal correspondence marks the first major privacy scandal of modernity. The real question,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Sweden's dirty little secretSwedish police authorities have secretly established illegal databases of Romani people in a program originally...
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Published in: HomeThe data hackers: mining your information for Big Brother
Raytheon's latest product is a software package eerily named "Riot" that claims to be able to predict where...
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Published in: openSecurityGlobal war and the state of exception
As David Miranda's recent detention illustrates, where states once introduced exceptional legislative measures in...
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Published in: HomeThe NSA isn’t the only US government agency making privacy obsolete
Increasingly, the relationship between Americans and their government has come to resemble a one-way mirror dividing...
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Published in: openSecurityThe surveillance marketplace
Behind Google and Verizon lies a much more complex landscape of American companies ready to do global business...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere to stand in the Fourth EstateAttacks on the Guardian's supposed hypocrisy conflates public scrutiny with gossip and entertainment.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAn unholy mixture: surveillance, the law and a setback for journalismWe should not underestate the seriousness of the government's attacks on those seeking to expose its surveillance...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The digital freedom risk: too fragile an acknowledgment
At least at first, freedom dies without human beings being physically hurt. The author is convinced that the freedom...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDavid Miranda: terrorist or tourist?The debate roars on as Theresa May insists the detaining of our citizens is for our own protection, but how far and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe final brick in the wall of the security state?
Why the digital commentator and technology adviser this week decided to call on Obama, Cameron, Clegg and the other...