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There's a revolution underway. It's digital, but not in the computing sector. I'm referring to the world of genomics, which...

Even the European Commission admits that TAFTA /TTIP is not, primarily, a trade agreeement, because the trade barriers between the EU an...

A year ago, I wrote a piece about cloud computing's dark secret: that using it in Europe was probably equivalent to making all your fi...

Last week I wrote about my recent talk on open access in which I pointed out that Linux has become the undisputed leader across huge swath...

During 2013, I've written a few articles about Mozilla 's attempt to give users greater control over the cookies placed on their ...

Readers with good memories may remember various key fights over the years that were largely about ODF and OOXML. The first round culminat...

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a conference celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Berlin declaration on open access. More formall...

In my last TTIP update , I wrote about a fascinating document that revealed the European Commission's PR strategy for handling TAFTA /...

At the start of 2012 I began a series of posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - ACTA. These took the form of updates on how...

A theme that has re-appeared on this blog many times over the years is that of software patents. As I've noted before, they are perhap...

In my previous TTIP update , I reported on an extremely important leak about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), which is the...

I've always been a big fan of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, even when it was unfashionable to admit it. Because, for the ...

(The previous two parts of this essay appeared earlier.) Or maybe not. There is a rough consensus among cryptography experts that the theor...

(The first part of this three-part essay appeared yesterday.) The gradual but relentless shift from piecemeal, small-scale analogue eaves...

Netzpolitik.org is the leading site covering digital rights in German. It played a key role in helping to stop ACTA last year, and recently...

A few weeks back, I wrote about the troubling prospect of DRM being baked into HTML5. At the centre of a related piece was a post by Brend...

Today's update is a little odd, since it's not actually about TAFTA /TTIP, at least not directly. Although the second round is t...

One of the key issues during the ACTA negotiations was transparency - or rather the lack of it. Despite a few...

You may recall back in 2011, there was an extraordinary bidding war for the patents of Nortel Networks: On Open Enterprise blog.

As you may recall, back in September the European Commission finally came out with its proposals for net neutrality, part of its larger...