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As the passage of the UK's technologically illiterate Digital Economy Act in 2010 demonstrated, many UK politicians are completely at sea when it comes to modern technology. But even they recognise that the digital world forms a crucial part of modern...

Details of the emergency surveillance legislation Miliband's letter to Labour MPs explaining why Labour backs the bill Lunchtime summary, including highlights from the Cameron/Clegg press conference Afternoon summary 5.00pm BST Kenny MacAskill, justice...

At breakneck speed and amidst considerable controversy the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIPA) became law in the UK on Thursday 17th July 2014, having been introduced as an emergency Bill on Monday 14 July 2014. The row about the...

As reported a few days ago, the U.K. is set to introduce emergency legislation to make up for a recent ruling by Europe’s top court, which struck down an EU-wide law forcing communications firms to hang on to subscriber data for law enforcement purposes...

This last week has emphasised the sheer power and influence of the internet giants – Facebook and Google in particular. The Facebook Experiment First we had the furore over the so-called ‘Facebook Experiment’ – the revelation that Facebook had undertaken...