Publications

The Ministry of Defence is reportedly set to award a £2 billion contract to a consortium led by Raytheon UK despite major corruption and fraud violations recently levelled against its American parent company RTX. The contract, which aims to modernis...

Six Palestine Action protesters have been found not guilty of aggravated burglary at an Elbit weapons site near Bristol. Zoe Rogers, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Jordan Devlin were also not convicted of any ot...

Pirate sites and services can be a real challenge for rightsholders to deal with. In India, however, recent court orders have proven to be quite effective. Indian courts have issued pirate site blocking orders for over a decade. Initially, these orde...

The UK government has approved over £11m worth of surveillance exports to a repressive Gulf state in the past five years, Declassified has found. British companies have been issued 11 licences for exporting “telecommunications interception equipment”...

The US military owns 22 sites in Britain whose “replacement value” is $15.6bn (£11.4bn), according to a US War Department document found by Declassified UK. This number of sites is larger than previously believed and more than UK governments have tol...

Online piracy is often associated with entertainment, such as movies, games, and music. However, there are millions pirating content for educational purposes too. This isn’t a new phenomenon at all. Roughly two decades ago, there were already dedicat...

In decentralised blockchain networks, protecting the identity of block proposers has traditionally been considered a secondary concern. Bitcoin miners operate pseudonymously, while Ethereum validators register publicly to participate in consensus. Ho...

No other country in Europe generates as much noise around physical anti-piracy crackdowns as Italy, where ‘boots-on-the-ground’ operations have become a regular occurrence. While the number of affected users doesn’t always seem to add up, it is clear...

Five years ago, Bulgaria informed the U.S. authorities that it would like to shut down prominent torrent trackers such as ArenaBG, Zamunda, and Zelka. To get that done, the Eastern European country specifically asked the U.S. Government for assista...

Read part one and part two in this series. The previous essays in this series traced a familiar arc: democratic institutions hollowed out by scale, incentives, and capture; legitimacy stretched thinner with every emergency; trust replaced by surveil...