As is so frequent on the web, the whole internet is a-buzz with copyright stories. The two which seem to be creating the most buzz at the moment are the story that New Zealand has buckled to pressure from American copyright holders to implement a law which punishes people for being ACUSED of...

As I have previously covered in the EU makes police hacking legal post Europe is making moves to give police forces new powers to spy on anyone’s home or business computers. This is now being implemented in the UK, and is being picked up by more mainstream sources such as BBC...

As part of a 5 year action plan to 'combat the growth in cyber theft and spam' the EU have granted Europol £250,000 to create a system to allow european police forces to share data with each other which they have gained be illegal means. Obviously they worded it slightly better than I...

With the first of the UK ID cards rolling out this week to foreign nationals, I thought I’d do a quick update of all the lunacy that has gone off lately. The initial cost is expected to be £30 - paid for by the card holder - and is now seeming likely to rise after 2010, to...

Splattered across the internet, like a psychopath with a paintball gun, are targeted adverts. These advertising systems - usually ran by the major search engines such as Google, Microsoft (live), Yahoo search etc. - use cookies and other technology to track your browsing habits. The...

Much has been said and written about RFID tags - and the threat they pose to our privacy. So, what are they? RFID chips are small microchips (often smaller than a grain of sand) with an antennae connected which allows them to broadcast data over short distances. Most often they are un-powered...

Around Kias World you will often see the term 'off the grid' thrown around, and on here it usually refers to John Twelve Hawks' view of remaining off the information grid. There is another view - which ties in with John's interpretation - and is more commonly found by a quick search of the...