Tobias Escher at the OII

The “first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide” is in full swing in St. Anne’s college in Oxford and there are already some online accounts of the main findings of the study (see their main website if indeed you are able to access it). (update:for a near live [...]

For the last months a heated debate has taken place in Germany about the right of security agencies to monitor and spy on computers of unsuspecting citizens. In a country that has one of the most restrictive data protection laws the recent proposal of Home Secretary Wolfgang Schäuble to allow agencies to install trojans or [...]

Apparently today is the start of the “Get Safe Online Week”. It has been the task of an initiative of the government together with BT, Microsoft, Ebay and the likes to remind us of that together with some advertisements for their homepage. I am obviously immensely grateful for that but jokes aside as one usually [...]