2007 Podcasts

Interviews, news and views

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  • Battle for content control

    14 Dec 2007

    We look at a new technology to help content producers control their material and ask: will search companies allow it to flourish? And we talk to the man charged with potentially re-writing data protection laws.

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  • Are libel laws wrong?

    06 Dec 2007

    We look at claims that free speech on the web is silenced too easily by threatening a host without ever having to prove defamation.

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  • Is drinking a disability?

    15 Nov 2007

    Employment experts tell us how alcoholism is getting disability discrimination protection through the back door, and talk to a Dutch man who is spying on his whole town.

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  • Privacy battle rages

    09 Nov 2007

    The privacy chiefs of Europe and Google battle over privacy rights and whether technology or the law should protect us.

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  • FOI for private sector?

    01 Nov 2007

    We talk to the Scottish Information Commissioner about plans north and south of the border to extend freedom of information laws to private companies.

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  • Amateur vs Amazon

    25 Oct 2007

    We talk to the amateur patent sleuth who felled Amazon's one-click patent, and find out how emails in court cases can cost companies millions.

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  • Secrecy law gutted

    11 Oct 2007

    We investigate how a recent ruling could undermine Freedom of Information laws, and look into how BT is finally making Wi-Fi sharing safe.

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  • The long wait for WCAG 2.0

    05 Oct 2007

    We hear that new web accessibility guidelines are on the way. But is it too late for them?

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  • CCTV in the dock

    27 Sep 2007

    We hear how the cameras that try to catch us misbehaving are mostly themselves operating illegally.

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  • A patent revolution

    20 Sep 2007

    We go behind the scenes at a pioneering project which hopes to use internet collaboration to save an ailing US patent system.

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