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Published in: openDemocracyUKSurveillance, the British and US debates comparedIn Britain, allegedly, no one cares that the state is collecting vast data on all of us. In the US things are...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTwo years after Leveson, why is the UK government’s media dealings still shrouded in secrecy?They talk of 'transparency' but the reality is still a quiet word behind closed doors, shut off from public...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan we really be bothered to take back our privacy?
Is the best we can do really to download countless programs merely to slow down those spying on us? This is not only...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSnowden one year on - a day of action
Mass surveillance has to end, on June 7th we're having a day of action to consider how we can make that happen....
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Published in: openDemocracyUK365 Days of SnowdenWhat is being done around the world to mark the first anniversary of the Snowden leak.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe prevention of journalismGovernments may use increasingly complex and sophisticated tools for censoring unhelpful information but the end...
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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: 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: 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: 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: openDemocracyUKNSA & GCHQ - hand in glove. Are you really surprised?The level of surveillance across the US and the UK should not come as a shock to their citizens. To what extent is...
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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...
