This is going to be a shit storm. The CJEU has ruled that US owned storage is not “adequate protection” under EU data protection laws and that their laws around warrants are not an “effective remedy”. They have torn up the so-called self-harbour treaty. Here are some links.
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What started it I found myself doing some reading about recent British Defence strategy and policy. It started with a blog by John Snow, questioning the British military’s obsession with supporting the US, it’s a sort of trickle down, but we can’t afford the technology any more. Military technology works because its new and different…
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Last Month, Harriet Harman writes, As well as mounting a strong opposition to the Tories and understanding the lessons from our election defeat, we need to get on and elect a new Leader and Deputy Leader. The NEC met this afternoon to decide on the timetable for the leadership election, …. This leadership election will…
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The Labour Party is undertaking a process to choose a candidate to run for Mayor of London. This process is in four parts, Application Stage – now complete Nomination Stage – closes 10th June Selection Panel Stage – currently advertised as complete on 13th June Voting – starts 12th August, finishes Noon 12th September The…
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I have been considering Julian Huppert’s record as an MP and have come across the following resources to help me understand it. I have of course seen him speak at the last three OrgCON conferences, the recent Digital Question time and in the Westminster Hall debate on Snowden & GCHQ, which I reviewed in my…
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As a result of the EP’s LIBE committee report on the EU Copyright Regulation, in Feb 2015, I built a Storify page and propose to write a blog article. This page captures some of the resources I used to write it. They come from my blog, the IP Kat, out-law.com, torrentfreak and flickr, where martin…
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I was point at a Parliament TV clip from the House of Commons and wanted to experiment with using the stop parameter. The http code is as follows,
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This is my Labour Party Rules Page. It contains links to various Labour Party rules, policies and guidelines. This page has a bitly alias https://bit.ly/labourrules . …
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I was pointed at, The Norwegian trial with Internet voting: results and challenges by an attendee at 31C3. The summary states there is no evidence that it increases turnout and concludes,
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The politics of cross thames planning is heating up, here are some links,
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Estonia is becoming the touchstone and proof of good e-voting practice. It has failed its audits in the last elections.
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This is/was a note on a speech made by Yvette Cooper called the challenges of a Digital World to our security and liberty. This has a link to the speech, but was made in May 2014, the world has moved on. As ever my review of Labour front-bench speeches proves/proved to optimistic. I have marked…
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Lessig’s article, “Code is Law” for Harvard Magazine is here. I have made a .pdf here and a.docx here. both hosted on this bliki site.
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The NPF’s programme only mentions the digital economy once, and this is to promise more speed, everywhere it can go. There are two internal pressure group style swarms/groups/initiatives.
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I returned to this in March as the Mayor sought comments in the final stage of consultation before agreeing or rejecting outline planning permission. New Cross Labour have published Joan Ruddock’s submission on their web site, here. She is arguing for the cultural planning gain represented by the Sayes Court Garden project and the Build…
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