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15 February 2023
Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2023
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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...
08 January 2018
Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2018
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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...
08 May 2015
TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), sometimes known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), is currently ...
26 July 2014
European Court Of Human Rights Fast-tracks Case Against GCHQ; More Organizations Launch Legal Challenges To UK Spying
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Back in December, we wrote about a legal action that a group of digital rights activists had brought against GCHQ, alleging that the UK&...
British Judge Rules Google Can Be Sued In UK Over Privacy Case
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The battle over online privacy, and how personal data should be treated as it moves over the Internet, is being fought between the US an...
24 November 2013
New Encrypted Email Services Coming From Kim Dotcom's Mega And Newzbin
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A month ago, we wrote about Kim Dotcom's plans to form his own political party in New Zealand. But that's not the only way that...
23 November 2013
European Privacy Lost - and How to Get it Back
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At the beginning of this year, I discussed a report written for the European Parliament, which warned that the US legal framework allow...
27 October 2013
Who Will Take The Privacy Seppuku Pledge?
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When Techdirt wrote recently about yet another secure email provider opting to close down its service rather than acquiesce in some fut...
26 October 2013
Mozilla Comes under Attack - and of Age
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Back in March, I wrote about the odd little attack by the European arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on Mozilla's pla...
19 September 2013
Sweden Makes It Illegal To Take Photos In 'Private Environments' Without Permission
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Here on Techdirt we've had stories about how the ubiquity of digital cameras is changing the way we look at public events and art . ...
Please Help Overturn EU Data Retention Directive
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The last couple of weeks have been full of the revelations about NSA spying on a massive scale. What has been slightly disconcerting is...
31 March 2013
Is This What Google Really Thinks About Privacy?
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I've been writing quite a lot about the current Data Protection regulation that is being considered in the European Parliament. As I...
17 March 2013
Top German Police Officer: 'Anyone On The Internet Has Left The Private Sphere'
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The Internet as a mass medium is still relatively young, so it's no surprise that its function in society and in our daily lives is s...
09 March 2013
How Lobbyists' Changes To EU Data Protection Regulation Were Copied Word-For-Word Into Proposed Amendments
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Everyone knows that politicians are lobbied, sometimes massively. But it's rare to be able to track directly the detailed effects of...
EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
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It's becoming clear that the lobbying around the proposed EU directive on Data Protection is some of the most intense ever seen - so...
10 February 2013
The Battle for the Soul of EU Privacy
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As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, 2013 is already shaping up to be a year in which data protection is a key battleground. That'...
EU Data Protection and Open Standards
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As happened for last year, 2013 will doubtless see plenty of battles in the domains of open standards, copyright and software patents, bu...
23 June 2012
Your Genome, Your Data
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The computing revolution is not the only one driven by constant scaling of technologies: the field of genomics -- the study of DNA sequen...
Draft Communications Data Bill: Daft and Dangerous
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We knew it was coming, and here it is: the Communications Data Bill (. pdf .). First the good news: On Open Enterprise blog .
27 April 2012
Norwegian Security Service Wants Details Of Citizens' Web Comments Retained For Six Months
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Governments around the world are seeking to monitor more and more of their citizens' online activities -- and it's not just the mo...
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