Out-law Radio

We look at claims that free speech on the web is silenced too easily by threatening a host without ever having to prove defamation.

Employment experts tell us how alcoholism is getting disability discrimination protection through the back door, and talk to a Dutch man who is spying on his whole town.

The privacy chiefs of Europe and Google battle over privacy rights and whether technology or the law should protect us.

We talk to the Scottish Information Commissioner about plans north and south of the border to extend freedom of information laws to private companies.

We talk to the amateur patent sleuth who felled Amazon's one-click patent, and find out how emails in court cases can cost companies millions.

We investigate how a recent ruling could undermine Freedom of Information laws, and look into how BT is finally making Wi-Fi sharing safe.

We hear that new web accessibility guidelines are on the way. But is it too late for them?

We hear how the cameras that try to catch us misbehaving are mostly themselves operating illegally.

We go behind the scenes at a pioneering project which hopes to use internet collaboration to save an ailing US patent system.

We talk to the founder of the music world's anti-label, which allows you to choose how much to pay for music, and find out how to stop a tank being hacked.

We talk to both sides in a battle over a web-based system which gives US lawyers a score out of 10 and we ask: can a number be libellous?

We ask why half of employees are now blocked from Facebook, how the site can cause companies trouble and why users are making friends with a frog.

We present the highlights of the first year of OUT-LAW Radio, from wireless security in a paint can to the plight of Gary McKinnon to protests from Billy Bragg.

We talk to the man behind a new market with a difference: it sells IT security secrets to the highest bidder.

We investigate one of the web's dirty secrets: typosquatting, and ask just how bad it is for established business.

We look at how data protection laws from Europe are implemented poorly.

We look at how data protection laws from Europe are implemented poorly.

We investigate an unexpected landmark ruling which threatens the legal protections ISPs enjoy in Europe.

We talk to the lawyer taking on the first copyright spat to hit virtual world Second Life, and we hear why your boss might own your Facebook profile.

We hear about the web activism campaign that changed WIPO policy, and talk to a publishing exec who took the law temporarily into his own hands.