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One of the heartening recent developments in the world of digital copyright is that we have moved on from manifestly biased surveys about...

One of the myths perpetuated by governments taking part in major international treaty negotiations like ACTA, TPP and TAFTA/TTIP is that ...

As a recent DailyDirt noted, opinions on the safety of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) are sharply divided. But that heated arg...

Techdirt has run a number of posts about David Cameron's dangerous plans to apply default online censorship and make porn opt-in in t...

Two massive trade agreements currently being negotiated -- TPP and TAFTA/TTIP -- could potentially affect most people on this planet, e...

There are few areas in tech policy where the waters are so muddied as those swirling around net neutrality. That's as true for the E...

Last week Mike wrote how frustration at the unremitting secrecy surrounding TPP, and the refusal to allow members of the public in whos...

As Tim Cushing has noted , David Cameron's half-baked plan to make online pornography opt-in in the UK has continued to earn him ri...

A year ago, we wrote about a Russian law that introduced a blacklist designed to block access to information on drugs, suicide and chi...

The story of open data in the UK has been fairly uplifting in recent years, as more and more public datasets are released under liberal ...

At the start of this year I flagged up the likelihood that hugely important trade negotations between the EU and US would start in due ...

Yesterday I wrote about the slide into censorship and self-censorship that the UK government's misbegotten plans to impose a defaul...

Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock, you will have heard and probably read plenty about the UK government's grandst...

In the wake of Microsoft's dire financial results, it might seem a little unsporting to draw attention to more of the company's...

I've been trying to fathom what exactly Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital A...

Back in March, I wrote about the odd little attack by the European arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on Mozilla's pla...

About a month ago, I wrote about the extraordinary fact that Microsoft routinely hands over zero-day exploits in its applications to th...

A year ago the European Parliament rejected ACTA - a real milestone in the fight to bring some balance to copyright, since it was the fi...

As you will have noticed, European politicians have suddenly become rather interested in the revelations about NSA spying now that it seem...

As Techdirt has observed, investor-state dispute resolution (ISDR) is turning into a major weapon that corporations can deploy against ...

The UK is famous for its abundant CCTV cameras, but it's also pretty keen on the equally intrusive Automatic Number Plate Recognition...

When Edward Snowden first revealed himself as the source of the NSA leaks, the Guardian released a short video interview with him in whic...

At the beginning of last year we reported on a Swedish study that showed that streaming services had halved the number of people who wer...

A few months ago we wrote about the extraordinary -- and worrying -- case of Eli Lilly suing Canada after the latter had refused to gran...

One of the striking features of the Snowden story is that there has been no serious attempt to deny the main claims about massive, global...