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One of the most worrying aspects of ACTA -- which began life as a "simple" treaty about combatting counterfeit goods -- was how...

Last week I wrote about the revelation (to me, at least - maybe other people knew this was going on) that MEP s were simply cutting and ...

Everyone knows that politicians are lobbied, sometimes massively. But it's rare to be able to track directly the detailed effects of...

It's becoming clear that the lobbying around the proposed EU directive on Data Protection is some of the most intense ever seen - so...

A fascinating trend in recent years has been the gradual move from a presumption of secrecy to one of openness, transparency and sharing. ...

One of the frustrating things about being on the side of right, justice, logic and the rest is that all of these are trumped by naked inside...

Transparency is a close cousin of openness, and it's becoming increasingly, er, clear that we need the former in order to obtain the lat...

So, the forces of stupidity, arrogance, greed, laziness and downright bloody-mindedness prevailed, and the Digital Economy Bill has turned f...

Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent...

Without much fanfare, the European Commission has arranged an "ACTA Stakeholders’ Consultation Meeting". Of course, the big prob...

One of the subtlest ways of gaming the system is to hack the system before you even play - for example, by building in a bias that means you...

If you wanted proof that the UK government is still an enemy of transparency, try this : The Government is grateful to the Public Administra...

One of the central issues facing free software around the world is what can be done about the threat of software patents. These are fundamen...

If this is true - and I have no reason to think it isn't - then I predict that it will come back to bite Microsoft very badly one day: ...

This is an important story - not so much for what it says, but for the fact that it is being said by a major US title like Newsweek : Since...