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Although he might have tried to brush it aside as merely a “private matter,” British Prime Minister, David Cameron's involvement in the Panama Papers leak seems unlikely to go away quickly. Adding fuel to the fire is ostracised whistle blower, Edward Snowden, who has now started poking the PM over …

Despite having double digit meetings with 17 different government ministers and politicians over the past few months, Google has denied that it had any “involvement with politicians,” with regards to its recent tax deal, which saw it pay just £130 million on an estimated £20 billion in earnings over the …

The British government has, for several years, been trying to convince us all that pornography is terrible and that children's access to it could be one of the worst things imaginable. Its response has been to push for ISP filtering and there's been talk of forcing age gates on sites. …

“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” is a saying most often attributed to Winston Churchill, but he was far from the first person in a position of political power to consider this motto; he won't be the last either. David Cameron has announced that following the attacks in …

The Trans Pacific Partnership is the other side of the world's TTIP. It's a piece of legislation masquerading as a trade deal, which for a long time, leaked drafts of have scared privacy campaigners, doctors, tech companies, nationalists and just about every internet user who can wrap their head around …

Encryption might be something the Germans are big fans of, but the British government and its intelligence agencies continue to paint it as a tool of evil, used to hide criminal activity from the authorities. However as opposition to this view point grows, it's attempted to mollify concerns that it …

David Cameron was said to have “spluttered over his cornflakes” when the ruling came in from the EU on net-neutrality, that said all data should be treated equally and therefore filters, like the ones put in place by ISPs to block pornography, would no longer be allowed under EU law. …

Theresa May will need to go back to the drawing board is she wants to try and force through the controversial Communications Draft Bill, otherwise known as the Snooper's Charter, as a High Court judge has ruled it unlawful in its current guise. The piece of legislation was said to …

Even if the US' attorney general might be spending plenty of time attacking the idea of encrypting the public's information, the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner sees things differently. In a new report released Thursday, it stated that encryption was “necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom,” …

David Cameron has been trying to make pornography harder to access for some time now. At various points throughout the past couple of years, he's discussed how he thinks it's too easy for children to see and that he wants to see companies and the government do more to prevent that. …

Gleen Greenwald, the man who Edward Snowden initially chose as the mouthpiece for his whistle blowing document leaks, has called out the UK, its government and Prime Minister David Cameron, as the biggest threat to democracy and freedom of speech in the world, not the terrorist organisations they so often …

The end game of the past two years of ‘cracking down' on online pornography is finally here. Following on from UK PM David Cameron's continued assault on pornography that even our most reasonable of attempts to dissuade him have failed to stop, our illustrious leader has now pledged to implement …

Ah to be a member of parliament. Not only do you get an average, basic salary of £67,060, expenses to cover a second home, staff and other -not always relevant – costs, but as of the May election, when everyone returns to work, they'll be given a free iPad Air …

Over the past year, the world has become much more aware of the way government's sniff out data on potential criminals: in short, everything is recorded. Edward Snowden's revelations about this have helped create a growing tide of disquiet with regards to overly intrusive surveillance and especially when it comes …

Much of our coverage of the British government last year involved David Cameron's courting of Chinese firms and how he was very interested in the filters they put up to stop citizens looking at a large variety of content, including anti-government messages. However, the big problem Mr Cameron saw in …

Remember those David Cameron porn filters we talked about potentially causing problems for gaming? Well that could already be happening with certain games, most notably League of Legends and its patcher, which contains files that due to their nomenclature contain the word sex and could therefore be blocked by these …

The world divides a lot of different ways, male and female, young and old – but one of the most basic and long lasting divisions that's not related to genetics, must be ‘worker' and 'employer'. Boosting the technology industry means increasing sales, which means increasing employment. The Coalition seems to …

The speed at which a nation's citizens can connect to the interwibble super highway, is a great indication of how advanced a nation is in the grand scheme of things. Here's a pair of questions: Just how fast will the UK's broadband system become around 2015 and how great will …

Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken out on UK daytime television show ‘Daybreak' about the latest injunction which has stopped the English press releasing information on a high profile celebrity in the UK. Cameron says that the government need to review current privacy laws in England, after the identity of …