Copyright and the Digital Economy

Yesterday there was a little bit of excitement in the digital rights world caused by an amendment to the Digital Economy bill proposed by a Tory and Liberal peer. The justification of the amendment does make some good points – particularly about bringing any action under the control of the courts rather than just requiring […]

Marcus Povey

Yesterday there was a little bit of excitement in the digital rights world caused by an amendment to the Digital Economy bill proposed by a Tory and Liberal peer. The justification of the amendment does make some good points – particularly about bringing any action under the control of the courts rather than just requiring […]

Reporting online terrorists

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Marcus Povey

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Introducing data.gov(.uk)

Today saw the release of Data.gov.uk, the government data website spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee which hopes to collate government data and make it available for people to build on. Although it is clearly aimed at developers, it is my hope that innovative and genuinely useful tools will quickly start popping up as entrepreneurs get to […]

Marcus Povey

Today saw the release of Data.gov.uk, the government data website spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee which hopes to collate government data and make it available for people to build on. Although it is clearly aimed at developers, it is my hope that innovative and genuinely useful tools will quickly start popping up as entrepreneurs get to […]