Author: Patrick Macavoy

Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook are names you may have heard.

Two individuals who swore allegiance to so called Islamic State and days later conducted a horrific massacre at San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, taking 14 lives and injuring an additional 22. Continue reading “Apple vs The FBI What’s the Big Deal?”

Critics of the UK Judiciary argue it is outdated, overpriced and no longer fit for purpose. This comes with the growing number of people being un-able issue legal proceedings because of the near abolition of legal aid. The disproportionate legal costs which come concurrent with legal representation have led to a drastic increase in people representing themselves. Continue reading “Online Court: E-Justice”

Theresa May admitted in the House of Commons, on the 4^th of October 2015, that the UK had been operating mass domestic surveillance since the ‘1984 Telecommunications Act’. The irony of course, is that ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ is the title of George Orwell’s dystopian future novel which hinges upon the governmental surveillance of British civilians (or Airstrip One – as the book calls it).  An irony Edward Snowdown also couldn’t help but enjoy. But could this be as bad as the literary classic predicted? Continue reading “UK Surveillance Bill – Is Big Brother Watching?”