As the Prime Minister’s deadline for triggering article 50 looms ever-closer, many questions about the process and implications of Brexit remain unanswered or unclear. Here, Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, lays out what Brexit could mean for rights in the UK and what the Government needs to do to […]
Privacy vs Security
As data protection becomes a hot topic again with the publication of the ‘A Question of Trust‘ report, Professor Steve Furber asks if we should be worried. I have always assumed that government security agencies – GCHQ, NSA, etc – can snoop on what they like, when they like, and that this is in the interests […]