Index on Censorship

Egypt’s leading independent editor, Ibrahim Eissa, talks to Index about freedom of the press, revolution and the fight for democracy

Journalists are being tarnished by the activities of professional privacy invaders. It is time they were renamed and shamed, argues Brian Cathcart

The British press loves to hate high court judge Sir David Eady for his judgments in privacy cases. He talks to Joshua Rozenberg about balancing rights

France’s culture of privacy is being challenged in an unprecedented stand-off. Natasha Lehrer reports

A loose community of anarchic and anonymous people is testing the limits of free speech on the internet. Whitney Phillips interviews one of them

Google’s chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer talks to Index about the challenges for free speech online

We may have lost the first battle to protect our data, say Gus Hosein and Eric King, but there’s a chance to put things right if we’re ready to have the debate

When the US government came for Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir’s private information, she grew concerned about the lack of protection for rights online

Does it matter that companies are collecting data? More than you might imagine, warns Paul Bernal

Political opponents and activists are among those monitored in Latin America. Katitza Rodríguez charts the erosion of privacy in the region

What does a corporation have in common with a person? Marc Rotenberg examines a test case for transparency in the US

The Indian government’s pursuit of BlackBerry reveals inconsistencies in its policy on privacy and security. Prashant Iyengar reports

Anthony Lester on blasphemy Fiction from Libya

It’s time that law makers stepped in to tackle the growing conflicts worldwide between freedom of expression and freedom of religion, argues Anthony Lester

In the first chapter of his new novel, celebrated writer Ibrahim al Koni draws on the rich heritage of Arabic political allegory to explore totalitarianism