The UK's threat to the privacy of reading on the internet is extremely dangerous.

So is the surveillance exercised by snooping web sites. We must put an end to all of it.

The EU's proposed trade secrets directive bows down to business at the expense of journalism, workers, and public safety.

Trade secrecy is harmful to the public interest, and one of the supposed purposes of the patent system is to discourage trade secrecy.

How about discouraging it by not adopting laws to facilitate it?

Australia's secrecy about "special" violent intelligence operations extends to the point of refusing to say whether there have been any.

If an Australian agent on one of these operations kills your child, you will need to escape from Australia before you can safely say so.

The writers festival in Bali was forced to cancel sessions about the 1965 massacre, but people discussed it anyway, and condemned the censorship.

A project sets out to summarize how various web services deny users' rights through their terms and conditions.

I doubt that competition will be effective for eliminating nasty conditions. The overall level of competition in this field is too low.

I think we need laws to limit what conditions essential digital services can impose. And rather than judging violations themselves, they should have to go to court in order to cut off service to anyone.