Britain's counter-terrorism laws are becoming more sweeping and powerful. They are beginning to criminalise not only what we do, but also what we say and think.
A new film, CITIZENFOUR, examines the extraordinary reach of today's surveillance culture and calls for a proper system of proportion and accountability.
Is the best we can do really to download countless programs merely to slow down those spying on us? This is not only wrong on principle. It's also a lot of effort. People can't be bothered.
A proposal for making the net safer by combining Norwegian legislation with a new use for its unused digital domains.
Mass surveillance has to end, on June 7th we're having a day of action to consider how we can make that happen. Let's face it, the government has no intention of rolling back surveillance unless the public make them.
A year after the Snowden revelations, the UK has utterly failed to properly investigate serious breaches of our privacy.
We may have acquired the right to speak freely, but what good does it do if nobody’s listening?
Governments may use increasingly complex and sophisticated tools for censoring unhelpful information but the end result is always the same, despite the claims of toadying journalists.
Anonymous yesterday organised a simultaneous protest around the world against the revelations of mass surveillance by our own governments. Ignored by the media, this was an important event: "the beginning is near".
The UK government continues to use the potential embarrassment of the White House as an argument against justice and liberty in the UK.
State interception of postal correspondence marks the first major privacy scandal of modernity. The real question, then as now, is how the public reacts - it is this that will determine the future of state surveillance. And the signs don't look promising.
