The Coalition Has No Digital Rights Policy
The Pirate Party movement believes that the way information is shared and controlled is a key fight in 21st century politics. The Internet gives us tools to participate in a more active and equal way...
View ArticleOpinion: Cameron Wants to Forget The Right to be Forgotten
Nicholas Foden Supporter Pirate Party Manchester Online privacy is something I feel very strongly about, and when I heard about the current government's plans to opt out of new EU social media laws, I...
View ArticleGovernment Caving on Snoopers' Charter – Still Much to be Done
Thursday, 25 April, 2013 - 15:15In what would be a humiliating climbdown for Theresa May cracks opened up again in the coalition on civil liberties. In a U-turn from his appearance in favour of the CDB...
View ArticleOpen Letter to David Cameron: Internet Filtering
The Rt Hon David Cameron, MP, Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Tuesday the 23rd July 2013Dear Mr Cameron,As a movement that includes many technically literate individuals, parents and...
View ArticleV3: Cameron's Web Filtering Plans
David Cameron's plans must not rely on web filtering.The Pirate Party, which campaigns for web freedom, was unsatisfied with Cameron's ideas. Party leader Loz Kaye said that the policies were confused:...
View ArticleOpen Letter to PM - Cameron's Internet Crusade
Wednesday, 24 July, 2013 - 15:00Loz Kaye, the leader of Pirate Party UK, has written to David Cameron on behalf of the party asking him to reconsider requiring UK ISPs to enable filters on by default...
View ArticleCameron's Web Filter Panic
Monday, 22 July, 2013 - 13:30David Cameron is announcing every household in the UK is to have 'offensive material' blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it. Customers who set...
View ArticleDigital Economy Act By The Back Door
Monday, 2 September, 2013 - 15:45Internet Service Providers are being asked to create a database of customers suspected of downloading music, films and books without a license. Those identified on the...
View ArticleWeb blocking. The Collateral Damage.
The last time I was in the (now closed) Ancoats walk in health centre I noticed something pretty sobering. A poster with information about help for victims of domestic abuse with tear off slips with...
View ArticleBit Tech: Cameron to announce block-by-default web filters
The Prime Minister David Cameron is due to make a speech to a child protection charity today which pledges government support for mandatory pornography filtering on UK internet connections - a move...
View ArticleSurveillance: Cameron Can't Tell Fact From Fiction
Friday, 31 January, 2014 - 13:15David Cameron told a parliamentary committee that he plans, after the next election, to expand laws to allow the "politically contentious" surveillance of online...
View ArticleDavid Cameron takes snooping lessons from the telly
THE UK PRIME MINISTER reckons that watching telly has told him a lot of what he knows and thinks is right about government surveillance of mobile communications and internet data traffic.Loz Kaye, the...
View ArticleThe fight against the surveillance state has only just begun
The truth is that Labour and Conservatives have colluded over subsequent governments to dramatically expand the extent of the surveillance state in Britain – writes Loz KayeWe are often told that the...
View ArticleAllegations Rock Web Filtering Policy
Tuesday, 4 March, 2014 - 13:00Downing Street has said, that one of David Cameron's aides has been arrested on suspicion of an offence "relating to child abuse imagery".As deputy head of the policy...
View ArticleIraq - Repeating Past Mistakes
Before we move forward against ISIL in Iraq, we have to learn from our past mistakes, or we will be doomed to repeat them.So here we are again. Parliament has voted to back military intervention in...
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