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The creative industries: moving from analogue to digital

As the creative industries become a dominant force in the industrial landscape and businesses across the economy invest in creative competitiveness strategies, policy-makers must wake up – insists Hasan Bakhshi

» United Kingdom feature

Asylum seeker database plan shows EU's hypocrisy on human rights

Asylum seekers
Plans to routinely share EURODAC data – including finger prints – with police is a 'breach of EU law' but the proposal is a fait accompli – say Ska Keller MEP

» United Kingdom feature

Oppressive UK surveillance laws set bad example for rogue states

Coding data
The latest attempt by the British government to control and monitor online communications is arguably the most frightening to date and could be copied by authoritarian regimes - warns Carly Nyst

» United Kingdom analysis

'Proactive approach' key to improving data protection

To improve data protection in the public sector, government agencies must pursue more proactive action in coordination with internet and cloud services providers, writes Julie Anderson

» Member state analysis

The problem with Facebook 'likes' and data harvesting

Something as seemingly harmless as a Facebook 'like' can be so valuable because is it gives criminals and rogue firms a better insight into citizens as a 'commodity' that can be traded - Nick Besant

» United Kingdom analysis

We must end cyber warfare 'Wild West' or risk catastrophe

In pursuit of cyber-peace – states need to develop international rules of engagement and seek limitations on the use of cyber arsenals against each other as they did with nuclear weapons in the 1940s, writes Jarno Limnéll

» Belgium feature

The EU Twitterati: behind the curtain of the Brussels press room

Twitter is disrupting the European Commission's attempt to manage news in Brussels as the unfolding events in Cyprus this week proved, writes Justin Stares

» Belgium news