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Piracy, Copyright and Entertainment in a Digital Age

By Eliot Che — March 5th, 2008
Looking at some of the issues behind the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey results.



Firefighters, Surveillance & Atheism

By Archie Techne — November 30th, 2007
If you live in the US and are worried about surveillance, now you have to be wary of firefighters, who are being trained by Homeland Security to report people who express discontent with the government. This is particularly frightening because firefighters can enter your …



British government loses personal data on 25 million citizens

By Eliot Che — November 21st, 2007
Gordon Brown’s government is under intense criticism today after acknowledging that it has lost computer discs containing names, addresses, birth dates, national insurance numbers and, in some cases, banking details of nearly half the country’s population.



Law and liberties in the “Age of Terrorism”

By Eliot Che — November 2nd, 2007
In Before the next attack, legal and political philosopher Bruce Ackerman presents a fascinating approach to one of the most pressing and polarizing issues of our time. While debates over the balance between security and civil liberties are nothing new, Ackerman makes an innovative politico-legal …