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The UK is famous for its abundant CCTV cameras, but it's also pretty keen on the equally intrusive Automatic Number Plate Recognition...

Whether or not you believe that CCTV surveillance makes the world a safer place, there's a big problem with deploying it more widely:...

Recently, Tim noted that, for some strange reason, politicians don't like having the same level of surveillance applied to them as ...

Large-scale surveillance of private communications is becoming depressingly routine, even in supposedly enlightened democracies. In less ...

Another brilliant essay on security from Bruce Schneier. It's all well-worth reading, but here's the nub: If universal surveillanc...

I read with interest this morning the following : “Snitchtown” is an essay by Cory Doctorow that first appeared in Forbes.com in June 2007. ...

One of the Great Lies of the Labour's surveillance society is that being watched - specifically by the greatest concentration of CCTV ca...

This is too rich: The man probing police conduct over the death of a newspaper seller during the G20 protests was wrong to claim there were...

True open source surveillance does exist. It's called sousveillance, and uses the idea of distributing the task among many people, often...

How Orwellian is this: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the apparatus of the UK's emerging surveillance society as the means...

Further proof that things are shifting in media-land: as Iain Dale, the Tory blogger who ran Davis's ill-fated leadership campaign, poi...

If you want to understand the role of the Internet in the development of the current situation in China, this is the best article I've ...

Another great commons under threat : In towns and cities across the country, millions of other street trees are less lucky. Supersized lorri...