Crime epidemic or never had it so good? Drilling into statistics is murder
It's both. And neither
Legal27 Jun 2018 | 49
Windrush immigration papers scandal: What it didn't teach UK.gov about data compliance
Comment Bye Amber Rudd. And hey, maybe it's time to talk about consent
Legal30 Apr 2018 | 54
Where hackers haven't directly influenced polls, they've undermined our faith in democracy
It's worse than we feared and the worst may yet be to come
Security08 Nov 2017 | 80
NatWest customer services: We're aware of security glitch
NatWest PR: No, no, no. That person's info was BAD
Security28 Sep 2017 | 63
BoJo, don't misuse stats then blurt disclaimers when you get rumbled
Norgrove was right: post-Brexit gross £350m a week? Nope
Legal19 Sep 2017 | 189
Prejudiced humans = prejudiced algorithms, and it's not an easy fix
Building bad practices in ML can turn out awkward
AI + ML31 Aug 2017 | 46
From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong
Swing when you're winning
Legal13 Jun 2017 | 200
Strong and stable? Theresa May's election poll lead succumbs to outlier syndrome
Contextualising Jeremy Corbyn's improving numbers
Science31 May 2017 |
UK General Election 2017: How EU law will hit British politicians' Facebook fight
Narrow swings, big data
Legal10 May 2017 | 78
How their GDPR ignorance could protect you from your denial
People, not process – your worst nightmare
Legal07 Apr 2017 | 32
Automated, insight cannot be: Jedi master of statistics was good – but beware the daft side
Hans Rosling is gone, but dashboards and graphs are dangerous to knowledge
Science21 Feb 2017 | 21
US election pollsters weren't (very) wrong – statistically speaking
Media open season on prediction number crunchers
Bootnotes05 Dec 2016 | 98
Anonymised search engine page found on 'kid-friendly' search site
Beta-testing oddness was never intended to be kept – dev
Security11 Apr 2016 | 35
Lies, damn lies and election polls: Why GE2015 pundits fluffed the numbers so badly
The lessons of shaping a mathematical 'reality'
On-Prem11 May 2015 | 174
What does the NHS’s new IT plan really want to extract from us?
Feature Uncosted system should’ve gone live two months ago
Legal21 Nov 2013 | 22
CPS grovels after leaking IDs of hundreds arrested during student riots
Exclusive FOI blunder spaffed details of people released uncharged
Legal27 Sep 2012 | 51
Erotica 2011 stands firm against rise of the sex machines
NSFW Old-school tools hit of leather and vibes bash
Bootnotes23 Nov 2011 | 32
Anti-smut boss: 'We won't be net police'
Even if UK.gov thinks IWF are already
Networks06 Nov 2011 | 28
Should your system offer Mr, Ms ... and Mx?
Analysis Time to phase gender out of your databases
Legal27 Sep 2011 | 69
Facebook under fire over Israel, transgender bullying
Mod squad overlooks teen bullies' page, took peace activists' down
Legal03 Jun 2011 | 16
Facebook forced to reinstate snogging men pic
Had labelled kissing clothed chaps 'sexually suggestive'
Legal19 Apr 2011 | 35
EU Data retention directive 'flawed, unlawful'
Lib Dem and digital rights group have privacy gripes
Legal18 Apr 2011 | 11
Sex Party's down-under struggles with dominant Catholic priests
Electile dysfunction cannot stand!
Legal07 Apr 2011 | 68
Oxfordshire cops switch speed cameras back on
Seventh speedy sense prompts three-point turn - but will it work?
Legal01 Apr 2011 | 66
Labour MP says police should clamp down on online incitement
Shadow Treasury Minister David Hanson has tips for Theresa
Legal01 Apr 2011 | 29
Irish cop child abuse image plan attracts data protection ire
Maimed, stark and misshapen...
Legal30 Mar 2011 | 26
MPs now free to surf and tweet
Warned not to take debate from the Chamber to the interwebs
Legal28 Mar 2011 | 11
UK.gov uses purple-panted-berk to get 'young men' to do census
XY gamers urged to fill in some lovely forms
Legal25 Mar 2011 | 31
Apple bashes 'gay cure' app
Gays 1, fundies 0
Applications24 Mar 2011 | 94
Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped
Jobs forced to choose between Christian chums and gay BFF
Networks18 Mar 2011 | 146
Gov and ISPs clash over informal policing of net
If I said you should have a beautiful self-regulatory body...
Legal16 Mar 2011 | 18
Internet Watch Foundation: Abuse images takedown speeds up
But scale of problem remains the same
Legal16 Mar 2011 | 11
Lords vote for electronic devices in their chambers
Says no to clicks, Google and 'e-mission creep'
Legal11 Mar 2011 | 18
Anti-religious campaigners smack down census Jedis
'Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?'
Legal09 Mar 2011 | 226
Bad Belgian busted by kinky iTunes openness
Now whistling a less happy tune
Security08 Mar 2011 | 23
Neighbourhood watchers in Reading get speedguns
Big society goes Big Brother – with speed-monitoring neighbours
Legal08 Mar 2011 | 76
BBC accused of coming out for porn opt-in?
Updated Jacqui Smith smut-show sparks censorship row
Legal08 Mar 2011 | 102
Privacy groups demand one commissioner to rule them all
How many privacy commishes do we really need?
Legal03 Mar 2011 | 10
Sheila's Fails? The statistics of biological risk
Comment Why the ECJ insurance judgment might not be the right road after all
Legal02 Mar 2011 | 90
NSPCC blurs lines as vetting debate kicks off
Confusion reigns
Legal01 Mar 2011 | 31
Norway gov mulls blocking online gambling
Probably not political, though
Legal24 Feb 2011 | 15
Survey sets out to pin down nation's pr0n habits
Semiotics of smut sought for the good of us all
Legal24 Feb 2011 | 44
Facebook pulls naked smutty filth from NY Academy of Art page
Social network's curators take down Andy Warhol school paintings
Legal22 Feb 2011 | 44
Facebook reviews smut policy after slave site uprising
Deletion of kinky page provokes sort-of soul-search
Legal21 Feb 2011 | 61
Sex offenders will get a review – after 15 years
It's the least government could do ... really, the least
Legal16 Feb 2011 | 86
Census threatens spies' cover
Judges, top cops also fear data debagging
Legal16 Feb 2011 | 63
The repeal bill: what's left in, what's left out
Analysis Would Sir like Daily Mail freedom or Guardian freedom?
Legal11 Feb 2011 | 26
Protection of Freedoms Bill is released
New Bill to curb Old Bill powers laid before Parliament
Legal11 Feb 2011 | 37
Russian volunteer army to fight 'dangerous content' online
The League of Internet Safety is deadly serious
Legal10 Feb 2011 | 5
Net censors use UK's kid-safety frenzy to justify clampdown
It's time to talk Turkey...
Legal10 Feb 2011 | 18
Mumsnet backtracks support for net filter
Who's been a naughty girl, then?
Legal10 Feb 2011 | 83
Overzealous anti-paedo scheme not dead yet
Scale back and rebrand of VBS is likely later this week
Legal07 Feb 2011 | 40
Bold as brass metal thieves disrupt rail, comms, electric
Authorities get heavy with metal thieves
Legal05 Feb 2011 | 78
ISPs and Vaizey set to bump heads over default porn filter
Meeting to choose whether it's off or on
Legal04 Feb 2011 | 72
ICO pays through the nose for 'website development'
60p a pixel? That'll do nicely!
Legal03 Feb 2011 | 28
IWF chief steps down
Robbins lays down his axe
Legal03 Feb 2011 | 6
Boots punts over-the-counter paternity test
Jeremy Kyle, Trisha anxiously peruse job pages
Science01 Feb 2011 | 47
Theresa May announces new counter-terrorism package
Stop-and-search, RIPA sort of limited
Legal27 Jan 2011 | 14
Tory MP accidentally endorses... German pr0n site
As one does
Legal26 Jan 2011 | 19
Single complaint sparks police raid and total ban on rental movie
DVD-pushers de-shelf necrophilia-themed porn star's tale
Legal26 Jan 2011 | 68
Biting the hand that feeds IT
