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There's an important series of Brexit votes taking place tomorrow.  The UK government will seek to overturn some sensible amendments ma...

By now, many people have probably heard about the company Cambridge Analytica .  By its own admission, it played a major role in the succes...

Back in December, we wrote about a legal action that a group of digital rights activists had brought against GCHQ, alleging that the UK...

The battle over online privacy, and how personal data should be treated as it moves over the Internet, is being fought between the US an...

Readers with good memories may remember various key fights over the years that were largely about ODF and OOXML. The first round culminat...

Last week we wrote about how Norway had come up with a way to provide online access to all books in Norwegian, including the most rece...

Yesterday, Mike wrote about some worrying indications that the US Appeals Court may be considering overturning a ruling that APIs aren...

As Europe gets back down to business after its traditional summer break, the second round of the negotiations for the proposed TAFTA/TTIP ...

As I noted a couple of years ago, one of the most important legacies of the Hargreaves review of copyright in the digital age was its in...

Remember the Digital Economy Act? Surely one of the worst pieces of UK legislation passed - or rather, rammed through - in recent years,...

As many have already observed, the detention of David Miranda comes across as an act of blatant intimidation , as does the farcical destr...

One of the recurrent themes on this blog has been the UK government's use - or failure to use - open source and open data. To be fai...

As Tim Cushing has noted , David Cameron's half-baked plan to make online pornography opt-in in the UK has continued to earn him ri...

Yesterday I wrote about the slide into censorship and self-censorship that the UK government's misbegotten plans to impose a defaul...

Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock, you will have heard and probably read plenty about the UK government's grandst...

In the wake of the news that spies at GCHQ -- the UK equivalent of the NSA -- have been tapping into every fiber optic cable that comes...

Techdirt readers may recall that over three years ago, the UK's Digital Economy Act was passed in totally disgraceful circumstances...

So the revelations from Edward Snowden keep on coming, exposing ever-more profound attacks on privacy and democracy in the UK and elsewh...

"Law is the operating system of our society ... So show me the manual!" Not alas, my witty words, but those found on the site ...

As readers of this blog will have noticed, much of the most innovative work in the field of openness is taking place in open data. One ...