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After lurking in the shadows for a few months, the mega transatlantic trade deal TAFTA/TTIP is starting to hit the mainstream media. Her...

As we reported a few months back, the UK's misbegotten Digital Economy Act continues to go nowhere fast, with warning letters for al...

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

If you follow me on Twitter or elsewhere, you'll have noticed that I've been tweeting rather extensively about the NSA' s spyi...

One of the defining characteristics of the digital world -- and one of the problems for copyright law, which was conceived in an analog ag...

A recurrent refrain from the copyright industries is that you can't make money from digital goods if they are freely available online....

I wrote last week about a curious article in the Guardian calling for “caution” on open source. And now we have another odd piece: The sad t...

An extremely feeble article in the Guardian parrots the recording industry's line that piracy is killing music: Global recorded music ...

There's a nice piece of work by Charles Arthur in The Guardian today that puts a fascinating post from one of Microsoft's top PR peo...

It's hard keeping up with Rupert Murdoch's fortunes on the Internet. First, he blew it: he ignored the Net, declaring it of no inter...

The Guardian 's crowd-sourcing of the initial analysis of hundreds of thousands of PDFs of MPs' expenses is fast becoming mythic. I...

Great to see Heather Brooke getting at least *some* recognition for the huge service she has done transparency in this country by fighting f...

Two years ago, the virtual world Second Life was everywhere, as pundits and press alike rushed to proclaim it as the Next Big Digital Thing....

The little brouhaha concerning the Guardian and Barclays Bank is a wonderful object lesson in how the Internet changes everything. Once t...

At a time when most newspapers are talking doom and gloom, the Guardian is instead *doing* something - and thriving (maybe there's a co...

...but there is this : Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a dat...

The Guardian continues to do its bit for open data : The Guardian has pulled together a collection of datasets drawn from the US Rather cle...

Good news: Irving Wladawsky-Berger , the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one o...

That's Stella Rimington, former head of MI5. Her Guardian interview is so packed with good sense that I'll have to quote it at le...

I've noticed increasingly that the "young people" seem to watch YouTube rather than that old-fashioned thing called "TV...