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Big Brother is still out there

June 1, 2010

In amongst all the excitement of the new coalition government, it’s important to still remember that much of Labour’s big brother legislation is still active. The awful Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (or RIPA), which sounds like it controls and limits the state’s ability to spy on us, actually empowers vast swathes of jobsworth prodnoses [...]

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Watching the Defectives.

May 2, 2009

In May 2007, along with several thousand other people, I was invited to join in the search for young Madeleine McCann. The past two years has been an extraordinary journey, largely conducted on-line, with the occasional physical foray to Prai da Luz. I have learnt a great deal, of human beings, and human responses, to [...]

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Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…….

April 6, 2009

It tolls for thee, yeoman of the land of Magna Carta. Whilst you slumbered last night, and in the many months before, the sinister shape of Directive 2006/24/EC crept into your lives and stole your freedom and your privacy. Would it have made any difference if this burglar had worn a striped jumper and carried [...]

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Putting the boot in.

March 27, 2009

Jacqui Smith’s heart must have beat a little faster this week, when news reached her of the advances in the science of Internet censorship made in Germany. 11 German detectives descended on the home of Theodor Reppe, in the name of ‘discovery of evidence of distribution of pornographic material’. Without informing Theodor of his rights, [...]

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BBC Re-education programme.

March 16, 2009

The BBC continue their campaign to convince us that black is white. A nice little ‘puff” from the Department of Positive Spin and Re-Education of us morons……otherwise known as Room 101. A peer who was jailed for sending text messages while driving on a motorway has said he wants to work as a road safety [...]

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Too little latitude.

March 14, 2009

Google’s new people-tracking software, Latitude – charmingly pegged as a way to “keep tabs on someone special” – is receiving what has become today’s typical response of ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ and ‘grave concerns about the erosion of civil liberties’.  How ironic that ‘latitude’,  a word once used to indicate freedom has now [...]

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Uncharted waters…….

March 10, 2009

Just off the coast of Free Speech, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lie the Isles of Enforced Government Regulations. These are dangerous waters for the Blogger vessels. One false move and they could find themselves beached on the craggy rocks of new government legislation. Nor is it just these submerged rocks they must navigate; [...]

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