Labour’s front bench and surveillance.
The Labour Campaign for Human Rights organised an event at which Kier Starmer, Labour’s shadow spokesman on the Investigatory Powers Bill, he introduced himself, and pointed to his record as a...
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Here come de Judge
The highest levels of international judiciary have been busy over the last week, I report and comment on the Microsoft vs. FBI on linkedin Pulse, in an article called “Citizens Win”. It was quite...
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Digital inclusions & democracy
25% of the UK population don’t have broadband, this is higher amongst the poor and the old; it generally costs more than the BBC Licence. Also not all internet users are Facebook users. Facebook (&...
View ArticleOi!, You! No snooping on my emails and chat!
Earlier this week, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgement on the legality of the UK & Swedish data retention and surveillance laws. They confirmed their ruling from 2015...
View ArticleWhy you should be bothered about the Snoopers Charter
Late last year, the UK Parliament passed the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. This law builds on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Acts and the Data Retention Laws. This law allows the Government to...
View ArticleThe Digital Economy Act (again)
The Digital Economy Act 2010 showed the long term goal of the entertainment industry, they want to criminalise file sharing. At the time, individual acts of copyright infringement were civil acts and...
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Digital Liberty, a baseline
I am preparing to write a blog on Digital Liberty and the Parties’ manifesto positions. I was looking to see how I categorised the issues so I could create a summary view and I found the motion that...
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Manifesto bingo, digital liberty and the internet
I have had a look at the manifestos and see what they have to say on the internet and Digital Liberty. I have been very influenced by the EDRi voting exchange and summarise the issues of Digital...
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Corbyn & Digital Politics
I made a storify about Corbyn & Digital Politics and his digital democracy manifesto. I used it to inform the writing of “Corbyn on Digital” on my wiki. I transferred this to the blog, as at the...
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No safe space
I made a storify after the election, and its terrorist disruption about the, mainly Tory response in blaming the internet. I don’t make the point that the Northern Ireland “troubles” were pre-internet...
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The Snooper’s Charter again! :'(
The Tory Government, have republished the Snooper’s Charter, changed some of the words and it has been inching towards the House of Commons via three parliamentary committees of experts, all of whom...
View ArticleDigital Rights
I have been asked to write something on Digital Liberty/Rights and so have checked up on the EDRi Charter of 2014. This has been moved around in their site and so I have created a mirror of their white...
View ArticlePolicy
I wrote a piece on my essay blog, now here trying to resurrect my thoughts on the #digitalliberty agenda just before the election. The thoughts were formed and committed to writing in 2014 and I said...
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At Orgcon 17
I am just back from orgcon17, and here are my notes; this was a two day conference, with many sessions on issues of concern to digital liberty campaigners on regulation of the use personal data. It...
View ArticleMass Action or Court Action
I have today posted a limited review of Orgcon17 which happened last year. One of the most provocative presentations was this one, “Is the law the best way to stop mass surveillance?” While it...
View ArticleReinforcing Monopoly
Hereby are two stories about how software acts as a barrier to entry to a market and reinforces the monopoly power of its provider. The first is shown by the fact that industrial content are getting...
View ArticleA giant juke box
This (European) Commission and Parliament must be the worst ever. Previous Parliaments have stopped ACTA & TTIP, previous Commissions have sanctioned Microsoft and Intel but it seems that this...
View ArticleDigital Democracy
One of the motions proposed but not debated at the CLPD AGM was called “Digital Democracy & the need for greater voter participation”. It’s quite long at over 550 words and I planned to speak...
View ArticleLabour and the Surveillance State
I am planning to get a motion on the Justice and the Surveillance State to LP Conference, I asked for help in this article on this blog, and I believe the final words for CLPD are very similar to my...
View ArticleAutomating the professionals
I attended a seminar the other day which raised some questions in my mind about the next and prior waves of automation, the location of value creation and the legal/social barriers to adoption. Much is...
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