Archive for July, 2008

Become an armchair activist and protect your privacy online


I’ve realised that companies like BT that are willing to break the law on data protection—and allowed to get away with it, it seems, by our government—won’t ever change without a bloody revolution unlikely to ever materialise. So, if you want to make sure your privacy is protected online and you don’t get targeted advertising and detailed profiles built up based on the websites you visit, then you need to act.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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Greedy bastards


British Gas upped gas prices to households by 35 per cent with immediate effect yesterday. Its parent company will shortly announce record profits of £880m, obtained in just the first half of this year. If the Labour government gave a damn, they’d legislate to take every single penny. But let’s never forget that it was the Tories who privatised British Gas in the first place.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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