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I missed this story when it first came out, which is a shame, because it's an important revelation of what the current mad mix of surve...

There's no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successf...

As the end of 2008 approaches, people's thoughts naturally turn to 2009, and what it might hold. The dire economic situation means that ...

Papers acquired by the Liberal Democrats via Freedom of Information requests show that the 1,500 officers policing the Kingsnorth climate ca...

Viewdle is a company that has been winning plaudits recently; I'm not so sure : Viewdle is a facial-recognition powered digital media p...

If you were wondering why I have been rabbiting on about police raids on alleged leakers, here's the reason : The new Counter Terrorism ...

Deep, if dark, essay on the deep malaise at the heart of British politics, and the rise of the database state: A threefold process unfolded...

... strikes again: A political row erupted last night after counter-terrorism police arrested the shadow Home Office minister, Damian Green...

Well, well, well : The number of crimes solved thanks to the DNA database is actually falling despite the ever-growing number of people it c...

This is where the madness of authoritarianism leads: Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a na...

One of Tony Blair's stupider statements was the following: "The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist.&qu...

Jacqui Smith has set out plans to give the police and security services more powers to gather phone and e-mail data. But wait : "I want...

Excellent in-depth analysis of all that is wrong with this deeply-flawed bill here .

....but next time I will if this proposal isn’t dropped. Isn't it interesting how often we're hearing that refrain about ID cards....?

A government minister has spoken glowingly of the prospect of kids as young as six handing over their biometrics as she boasted that the Tor...

The new dividing line between Labour and the Tories is less about a left-right split than about an authoritarian approach on one side and a ...