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Published in: openSecurityThe promise, and problems, of mobile phones in the developing worldIn 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...
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Published in: openSecurityOn the trail of Britain's undercover police
Recent revelations have exposed the routine embedding of undercover police officers within environmental and social...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Snowden FalloutIn America, candidacy is reserved only for those who can afford it, betraying the essential democratic concept of...
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Published in: openSecurityDisruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest
From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe military grip on US policing
US domestic law enforcement finds one reason after another to adopt military tactics and tougher approaches to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overviewOne of Britain's most distinguished political theorists on republicanism, freedom, Machiavelli, Hobbes, the...