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It's a measure of how far digital technology has entered our lives that Gordon Brown should get up at some ungodly hour this morning in ...

...about his plans to gag Google, and embrace the beauteous Bing: For the plan to work, it will also require that the vast, endlessly proli...

This is better than I was expecting: Speaking at a seminar on Smarter Government in Downing Street later today, attended by Sir Tim Berners...

Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing w...

I missed this during the summer lull, but that handy invention, Twitter (in the form of Oliver Morton ), has alerted me to this stunning tak...

This is something I've been saying (without proof, admittedly) for a while: the UK's insane DNA database is doomed not because it d...

Maybe something good can come out of the unholy mess of the MPs' expenses: Mr Brown said that politicians had to "prove themselves...

..of utter, inane stupidity. Here's the grand summing-up of Brown's "new level": Terrorism threatens the rights that all...

That's almost before it's come into existence: The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Departmen...

In the light of Gordon's recent wobbly over our Freedom of Information Act, lets hope he reads carefully the following memo from his n...

Looks like a reprieve more than a pardon: Gordon Brown today retreated from plans to exempt MPs expenses from the Freedom of Information Ac...

There is a long journalistic tradition of looking back at the end of the year over the major events of the preceding 12 months - one that I ...

Those e-petition replies just keep on coming. In response to the following: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not force int...

Apparently : Ce matin, le Parlement européen a enterré la riposte graduée. En France, et dans les tous les pays membres de l’Union. Une « én...

Despite previously attacking the Kyoto Protocol - which regulates international carbon emissions - as "pointless" and saying that ...

Well, not exactly, but that's we were asking for in an e-petition: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to adopt the Hagu...

Number 10 has a new look for its Web site ...and it's rather good (love the blues). Moreover, it's gone all Web 2.0: Flickr stream ...

There was something about the tableau that felt fragile. I could have taken a picture with my mobile, but it would have felt intrusive, rude...

Clearly Mr Brown and his chums are beginning to despair over this privacy disaster formerly known as ID cards. Not content with putting on ...

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