Last week, the government lost a judicial review challenge by Friends of the Earth to its Net Zero Strategy. While … Continue reading “Why the government’s “Net Zero” targets are a huge own goal”

The Online Safety Bill is an enormously complicated and hard-to-interpret piece of legislation. It aims to make the internet safer … Continue reading “How the Online Safety Bill threatens freedom of expression”

Social media giant Meta is appealing last year’s ruling by the CMA that its acquisition of GIF provider Giphy was … Continue reading “Meta’s experience with the CMA is a warning sign about the perils of unchecked regulation”

In 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published proposals to add to the Listing Rules targets for women and ethnic … Continue reading “Regulatory-political activism: the Financial Conduct Authority goes woke”

The Information Commissioner and its Office (the ICO) are among the most high profile regulators in this country. They oversee … Continue reading “The Information Commissioner has extensive powers but is not being held to account”

The contact tracing app being developed by NHSX (the technology wing of Our NHS) has been subject to scrutiny in … Continue reading “The NHSX contact tracing app: unresolved civil liberties and privacy issues”

This past week, testing for Covid-19, or the lack of it, has been the main focus of criticism of the … Continue reading “Corona trade-offs: some issues with “test, test, test” and “track and trace””

The freedom to provide and use digital services is under sustained attack. The EU’s new Copyright Directive places a heavy … Continue reading “Luddite paternalism threatens both the digital economy, and individual freedom”

It was hard not to raise a wry smile at the story of how the European Commission’s own Code of … Continue reading “The unintended effects of the EU’s crackdown on ‘disinformation’”