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01 April 2012
If ACTA Is So Great, Where Are All The Supporters Extolling Its Virtues?
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One of the striking features of the ACTA debate is the deafening silence from those who are in favor of it. Maybe that's down to the ...
23 March 2012
German Gov't Uses Anger Over Lack Of ACTA Transparency To Justify Further Lack Of Transparency
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Even though the ACTA text is now finalized, getting details from national governments about what exactly happened during the negotiations ...
22 February 2012
ACTA Update VII
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One of the widely-recognised problems with ACTA is the lack of transparency surrounding its negotiation. Since I have addressed this issue...
Shining Light On ACTA's Lack Of Transparency
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One of the key problems with ACTA is the lack of transparency during its negotiation. That this is becoming a big issue in Europe is shown...
06 January 2012
Will The Food Industry Ever Swallow Transparency's Bitter Pill?
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A fascinating trend in recent years has been the gradual move from a presumption of secrecy to one of openness, transparency and sharing. ...
01 September 2011
Open Data: Help "Make it Real"
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As I indicated yesterday, I have serious doubts about the UK government's policy on copyright. But while that has been something of a di...
27 January 2011
Fighting Openness with New Corporate "Rights"
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The opposition between openness and so-called "rights" - which are typically state-granted monopolies like copyright and patents -...
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14 January 2011
Public Data Corporation: How Open, and How Public?
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I've been following the move to open data by the UK government for some time on this blog. Major milestones include the creation of the ...
22 November 2010
MPs' Expenses: They're At It Again
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Openness is inherently political, because it dares to assert that we little people have a right to see what the powerful would hide. There...
03 June 2010
Why "Naked Transparency" Has No Clothes
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Although I have a great deal of time (and respect) for Lawrence Lessig, I think his article "Against Transparency" is fundamental...
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31 May 2010
Transparency is in WikiLeaks' DNA
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It is somewhat ironic that the man behind WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is not a fan of being in the spotlight; and therefore perhaps poetic ju...
22 April 2010
For Openness – and Open Source - We Need Transparency
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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...
12 April 2010
Time to Re-Boot British Politics
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So, the forces of stupidity, arrogance, greed, laziness and downright bloody-mindedness prevailed, and the Digital Economy Bill has turned f...
23 March 2010
Big ACTA Leak: Full Consolidated Text
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La Quadrature du Net has obtained another ACTA document - and it's a biggie, but at the moment only a 56-page PDF . You can help conve...
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21 March 2010
To: EC's Directorate General for Trade
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Without much fanfare, the European Commission has arranged an "ACTA Stakeholders’ Consultation Meeting". Of course, the big prob...
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25 February 2010
Important Leaked Document on ACTA
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An important document about ACTA has been leaked. It's in Dutch, but Jan Wildeboer has kindly provided a translation . It's worth ...
05 February 2010
Opening Our Eyes to the Tilted Playing-Field
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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...
04 February 2010
EU Official Caught in the ACTA
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As more and more people write about the global scandal that is ACTA, a question naturally forms itself: is it worth it? After all, however ...
11 December 2009
Visualising Open Data
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One of the heartening trends in openness recently has been the increasing, if belated, release of non-personal government data around the wo...
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07 December 2009
Why the UK's “Smarter Government” Plan is Not So Clever
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There's no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successf...
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