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One of the reasons Techdirt rails against exaggerated responses to supposed terrorist threats is that it has caused police forces around ...

As you may recall , terrorism was one of the primary justifications for bringing in the disproportionate Draft Communications Data Bill: ...

Any EU project called " Clean IT ", with all that implies for elements that are regarded as "dirty", is worrying enou...

Back in February we wrote about the ominously-named "Clean IT" project in Europe, designed to combat the use of the Internet b...

Marielle Gallo is probably best known for the Gallo Report, which Techdirt described back in 2010 as a "similarly draconian intellec...

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt reported on UK politicians calling for ISPs to "take down" terrorist content. Now it seems th...

What a sad, sad day for this country: A trainee accountant who posted a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport "sky high...

Britain's only specialist police human trafficking unit is to be shut down after two years because of a lack of funding, the government ...

One of Tony Blair's stupider statements was the following: "The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist....

...to 42 days . (Via Boing Boing .)

Godwin's Law states : "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches o...

If this is all true, things are obviously going from bad to worse at Wikipedia: Controversy has erupted among the encyclopedia's core c...

Blimey , there's hope yet: London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And th...

How's this for a confluence : Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth interne...

According to heise online : the [German] Federal Ministry of the Interior declares the ability to search PCs without physical access to them...

One of my earliest posts on this blog was about Craig Murray and how he was using his blog to get out into the open ideas and information...

One of the tensions that emerges from time to time in this blog is that between openness and security. In the current climate of the so-cal...

There's an interesting tension between openness and privacy: openness is good except when it might infringe on justifiable privacy. Thi...

The facts behind the UK cracker who ill-advisedly decided to break into Pentagon systems just gets more and more bizarre. The main issue is...