Halfon argues that ‘Google and other big internet companies have forgotten that people are individuals’. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images A “very dangerous shift” towards a “privatised version of Big Brother” is on the horizon if UK authorities don’t wake up to the invasion of privacy by internet companies, an influential Tory MP has warned. In a [...]

Halfon argues that ‘Google and other big internet companies have forgotten that people are individuals’. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images A “very dangerous shift” towards a “privatised version of Big Brother” is on the horizon if UK authorities don’t wake up to the invasion of privacy by internet companies, an influential Tory MP has warned. In a [...]

A blogging website that was shut down suddenly last week for containing links to hit lists, bomb-making documents and Al Qaeda’s new magazine “Inspire” had a lengthy history of breaking the law, but its violations were limited to copyright issues, not terrorism. Upon learning from the FBI that the site, Blogetery.com, contained links to terrorist [...]