Articles by Nick Pickles
Nick Pickles is the Director of Big Brother Watch, the campaign group formed to fight intrusions on privacy and to protect civil liberties. He tweets at @nickpickles.
Are we sleepwalking into the beginning of the end of internet freedom?
With a perfect storm of security, child protection and sexualisation and copyright enforcement we may be sleepwalking into the end of freedom online as we know it.
- 4 November 2011
The police don’t need more powers – they need a new approach.
David Cameron was absolutely right to argue that society is broken. He is absolutely wrong if he thinks a more authoritarian approach is part of the solution to fix it.
- 13 October 2011
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