Via Old Holburn and Leg Iron comes news of how the government is allowing the police to log onto people’s computers and search them. This means that the police have licence to read YOUR emails, your instant messages, your private documents (possibly containing passwords, account details etc). Without a warrant. Alternatively, they could install a “key-logging” device, so that the...

With commendable speed, Professor Hardaker, the CEO of the Royal Meteorological Society has responded to my email asking for a statement on the Society's position on one of its journals standing in the way of an attempt to replicate a study published there. Thanks for your note. I've had a couple of emails relating to this discussion and the position currently is as Prof McGregor mention...

A 'Spamalanche' of 3,000 emails may have invaded your inbox over Christmas and the New Year. So this week, how will you deal with your in box, will you delete all?

Source: Forbidden Planet The BBC is reporting that Jacqui Smith’s Home Office is planning to tender out a gargantuan big brother database that will contain everyone’s “telephone calls, emails and internet use”.  So if you phone your nan or email your girlfriend, the Government will know. Why is our private correspondence or communications their business?  This is

The Guardian reports: The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.If that is the sort of society she wants to live in, the sooner she fucks off to Pyongyang the better. And ...

What with all this monitoring of the internet, all this recording of emails: A missionary couple from Britain have been sentenced to a year’s hard labour in an African prison for calling the Gambian President a madman. David Fulton, a former army major, and his wife, Fiona, were convicted of sedition after sending critical e-mails about Yahya

A private firm could be asked to log details of everybody's telephone calls, emails and internet use, it is reported.

The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary. A cabinet decision to put the management of the multibillion pound database of all UK communications traffic into private hands ...

I see that the tolerance of Islam is manifest once again in the news that a British couple working as Christian missionaries in Gambia have been jailed for one year with hard labour for sending emails that were critical of the Muslim state. David Fulton, 60, a former Army major, and his wife, Fiona, 46, pleaded guilty to making seditious comments "with intent to bring hatred or contempt against th...

Couple working as Christian missionaries sentenced to a year's hard labour for sending emails that were critical of the Muslim state.