Tag Archives: internet

Big Brother is watching: The top five threats to your online privacy

By Left Foot Forward | Published: February 13, 2013

Left Foot Forward presents the top five emerging threats to your privacy online.

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Bloggers used rhyming slang to swerve China’s censors and talk about Xi Jinping

By Dan Holden | Published: November 16, 2012

With the new Chinese leadership brought into the light yesterday, Left Foot Forward looks at what public opinion is, and how much public opinion can be found.

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Making a # out of intelligence

By Guest | Published: May 10, 2012

Arguments between advocates of social media regulation and open rights campaigners lack adequate legal or ethical foundations, writes Demos’s Carl Miller.

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If you’re online, you’re in America, as far as US cops are concerned

By Alex Hern | Published: March 1, 2012

Alex Hern reports on the uncomfortable fact that US law now seems to apply to everywhere online, no matter where you actually are

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After the revolution, where next for online Egypt?

By Ged Carroll | Published: February 16, 2011

Egypt has show how the modern connected complex world has become more fragile, reports Ged Carroll.

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Prediciting the next crash

By Guest | Published: January 17, 2011

What if an early warning system existed that could raise the alarm on the next financial crisis? Stephen Fitzpatrick, of Profero, investigates.

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Vaizey’s net neutrality knock-out

By Ged Carroll | Published: November 20, 2010

Something has to be done about the country’s digital infrastructure. It is the good that the government recognises this, but like the Labour administration before it, the Lib/Con coalition repeatedly fails to grasp what needs to be done and how to do it.

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Why progressives need to wake up about net neutrality

By Jon Worth | Published: November 19, 2010

At present your Internet Service Provider (ISP) does not discriminate between different types of web data. So the text, images etc. of this Left Foot Forward article are delivered to you at the same speed as a page from the BBC News website or an auction page on eBay.

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The case for online organising

By Guest | Published: August 22, 2010

Ben Brandzel, international online organiser who builds progressive grassroots power and currently runs campaigns for President Obama’s politcal arm, on how progressives can use online organising to create real change, and why they should.

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Yes we did?

By Will Straw | Published: July 29, 2010

Will Straw has written a chapter for the Hansard Society’s new report, ‘The internet and the 2010 election’, in which he argues that Labour’s online team and local campaigners learned some important lessons from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

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