This week’s column is about the Home Office’s alleged new plans to keep a centralised record of the nation’s communications traffic data:
Can you “persuade others of the benefits of proposals or the value of a particular interpretation”? Then perhaps the recently advertised position of senior information officer at the Home Office’s new Intercept Modernisation [...]
Categories: newstatesman, politics, surveillance
This week’s New Statesman column is on sousveillance:
Watching Amy Winehouse lash out at Glastonbury this year (YouTube brings out the worst in me), I was surprised by the number of cameraphones the star had thrust in her face by the front row of the Pyramid Stage crowd. When your fans start treating you as badly [...]
Categories: newstatesman, surveillance
I’m pleased to announce that as of 15 January next year, I’ll be joining the Open Rights Group as their new Executive Director!
Suw Charman, ORG’s outgoing Exec Director, has just posted the announcement on the ORG website. I’m looking forward to working with her, ORG’s Ops Manager Michael Holloway, and the incredibly diverse and talented [...]
Categories: freeculture, law, media, newstatesman, opendemocracy, openrightsgroup, politics, surveillance
This week’s column in the New Statesman reviews the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s recent survey of prominent futurologists:
“Sometimes writing about the internet can seem like a cop-out. Imagining the impact that new technology will have on human life, in all its social, political and linguistic forms, is fun, exciting and much easier than, [...]
Categories: media, newstatesman, surveillance
This fortnight’s column for openDemocracy is about darknets, anonymisation and crypto-anarchy. Horray!
“People who want to hide their activities online already have the tools to do so. We’re just giving those tools to the general public.” These were the words of Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of Sweden’s Piratpartiet (Pirate Party), when he revealed that [...]
Categories: law, networks, surveillance