UK government – Orwell would be proud

Flicking through the online news coverage just now (yes, I’m at work, but it’s also lunch time – so I’m not completely skiving!) and I spotted a new line of stories and analysis on the BBC website based around the announcement today of the go-live date for the first stage of the UK government’s controversial [...]

Is Google the next Big Brother?

As I’ve said in a previous post, I think almost my whole online life (apart from this blog) is completely ‘Googlised’. So I’ve got a pretty positive view on Google as a company and as a service provider over-all. However, I was checking out Google’s new Street View service (it’s an add-on to Google Maps) [...]