13 April, 2013 - 18:16
leftfootforward.org The House of Lords voted overwhelmingly to protect freedom of expression – defamation will only have occurred if “serious harm” has been caused.
3 April, 2013 - 14:14
After a £14m fine for breaching Safari users’ “do not track” settings, Google has now ignored EU privacy directive 95/46 and faces enforcement actions from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK which could result in criminal prosecution and cancellation of contracts.
15 March, 2013 - 18:49
The Word Development Movement’s Web of Power report has revealed that a third of the UK government has links to the finance and energy companies driving climate change. Ministers embroiled in the energy industry’s nexus of money and power include David Cameron, William Hague, George Osborne, Michael Gove, Oliver Letwin and Vince Cable.
3 March, 2013 - 18:45
Beppe GrilloWeb guru Pierandrea Casaleggio and comedian Beppe Grillo’s M5S, winning almost a quarter of votes in Italy’s general election, is no traditional political party. It’s a horizontal web-based network whose spending on offline media advertising was zero.
11 February, 2013 - 14:05
Families in Sydney’s Villawood Detention Centre with ‘negative security assessments’ from Australian Intelligence (ASIO) are not told why they are a security threat and cannot apply for a permanent visa. Their indefinite detention may also be based on `suspicions’ about their electronic communications.
13 January, 2013 - 12:19
demandprogressInternet pioneer, activist and Demand Progress founder Aaron Swartz has committed suicide in New York. He was 26. His family and friends blame his death on an impending criminal prosecution for downloading academic data for release into the public domain.
22 December, 2012 - 13:38
Hacked Off’s campaign to adopt the Leveson Report is boosted by latest News of the World settlement, while Murdoch’s US presidential coup is foiled. Tell the politicians to support the victims of press abuse.
3 December, 2012 - 19:15
5 out of 6 cases supporting the “snooper’s charter” or Draft Communications Data Bill give no plausible need for “prior blanket retention of the entire nation’s traffic and location data”, writes Caspar Bowden. In one case cited a corrupt police officer accessed data leading to a double murder.
23 November, 2012 - 18:08
War on WantJoin the War on Want and CAAT campaign for an immediate two-way arms embargo to stop the UK arming Israel. Support Oxfam in calling on the UK Government to use its influence to lift the blockade on Gaza.
9 November, 2012 - 16:53
Woodland Trust needs £1m in government funding to bypass EU delays in creating a project to monitor and protect the UK’s trees and woods from further devastation by disease.

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