An interesting discussion last night about the idea of a world parliament. If democracy is a fundamental principle of how government should take decisions, which this website thinks it is, […]
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An important story in the news during the summer was the claim that the American intelligence agencies were tapping, seemingly at will, into the data traffic of a number of
A breach of security, but where? Read More »
Another example of our borderless world takes the form of a lawsuit against Google. Privacy campaigners in the UK protest that the Google search engine ignores the privacy settings in
Where is the internet? Read More »
This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published
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The proposals from the Leveson inquiry into the behaviour of the British press, which reported last month, include the call for a legal backstop to independent regulation. The Press Complaints
Can the press be controlled? Read More »
After the excitement caused by the outing of the Syrian lesbian blogger –she was in fact a man, in Scotland! – one might ask whether any website is really what
Can you trust this website? Read More »
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the most successful football manager in British history, has always cultivated a siege mentality among his players. No-one else will do us any favours:
Letter published in the Financial Times, 7 October 2010 Sir, The moment at which the western countries have the upper hand in cyberspace is exactly the moment to propose an
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The discussion about the extradition to the United States of Gary McKinnon, the alleged computer hacker, provokes an interesting question of territoriality and extra-territoriality. One of the arguments put forward
Who should regulate the internet? Read More »
It is often the case that an individual case can serve as an illustration of quite a profound point, and the arrest of Dr Frederick Toben is one such. Dr
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