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As Mike reported recently, the NSA has presented no credible evidence that its bulk metadata collection is stopping terrorist attacks,...

In the wake of the news that spies at GCHQ -- the UK equivalent of the NSA -- have been tapping into every fiber optic cable that comes...

When we wrote last year about a Dutch idea to give police there the power to break into computers -- even those located abroad -- we and...

Techdirt readers with long memories may recall a fantasy proposal from Orrin Hatch that would have seen technological means deployed to ...

A recent scandal in the UK concerned the country's worst sporting disaster, when 96 football/soccer fans were crushed to death at a s...

One of the earliest proposals for mass surveillance was the Panopticon:  On Techdirt .

As the mobile phone moves closer to the center of daily life in many parts of the world, combining phone, computer, camera, diary, music pl...

Yesterday I wrote about the unusual aspects of the Serious Organised Crime Agency's take-down of the music site RnBXclusive. As I n...

One of the positive outcomes of the debate that has raged around SOPA/PIPA is that more people have looked at the facts, rather than list...

Videos are proving to be a key element in ensuring that policing is fair and honest, as recent events in the UK have demonstrated. But ther...

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

How can a government minister be so shameless as this ? Policing and Security Minister David Hanson MP said: ”Stop and search under section ...

Although e-petitions don't often accomplish much (the apology for Alan Turing being a notable exception), they do have the virtue of for...

Papers acquired by the Liberal Democrats via Freedom of Information requests show that the 1,500 officers policing the Kingsnorth climate ca...

And so it goes on: Every police force in the UK is to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners - handheld devices that allow police to ...

I've been against DNA databases for years, but I've always felt that the generic arguments I've been using were a little pallid,...

You can't make this stuff up: UK music licensing outfit the “Performing Right Society” (PRS) - the guys that come asking for money when...

A group of eminent lawyers and scientists is calling for anyone not convicted of a crime to have their details wiped from the DNA database. ...

I wrote recently about Microsoft's amazing Photosynth demo, which shows pictures of Notre-Dame taken from Flickr stitched together auto...

Microsoft getting help from the Mumbai constabulary? Seems a little extreme.... The Mumbai Police has come up with regulations for Cyber C...