Communications green paper delayed while Jeremy Hunt deals with Leveson

Policy thinking on internet piracy, public service broadcasting and spectrum unlikely to be published until the autumn. By Dan Sabbagh

Desert Island Discs: Margaret Thatcher among new shows to go online

More than 450 editions of Radio 4 show go on iPlayer, also including Philip Larkin, Princess Margaret and John Cleese. By Ben Dowell

Mrs Cameron’s diary: Dave’s texting times

Dave so gets text speak, but what's to be done about Rebekah and Charlie?

Life is tweet, says John Prescott, as Twitter reaches 10m milestone in UK

Former deputy prime minister says UK tweeters have finally helped to make press barons accountable

Cyber security should be promoted with hard-hitting ad campaign, says Labour

Shadow defence secretary calls for adverts to encourage people to take care online and 'kitemarks' for secure businesses

Trayvon Martin petition site Change.org comes to UK

Website that teenager's mother used to bring his case to world attention says it has 'structure of a business but non-profit ethos'

Run the country? Sorry, far too busy texting my chums

Catherine Bennett: Mobiles in schools face a ban but politicians, as we've discovered at Leveson, are as addicted as any child

Internet porn: Cameron plan for default block ‘unrealistic’, say experts

Civil liberties campaigners and technology experts join condemnation of 'opt-in' scheme favoured by children's charities

Rebekah Brooks’s missing BlackBerry message puzzles IT experts

Sample of computer forensics experts dispute how 'message from David Cameron' could have been lost in copying process

London Olympics: Orbit towers over debate on purpose of public art

Anish Kapoor's sculpture divides those living in its shadow in east London as well as those in the art world and beyond

Joint strike fighter stalled by technical problems

Each F35-B aircraft could cost more than £57m as cost overruns and design delays stall production

Big questions remain unanswered over the government’s ‘snooper’s charter’

The coalition wants to monitor our emails, texts and web use – but hasn't explained why or how, or who it thinks it will catch. By Charles Arthur

How my riots tweet landed me in hot water – at taxpayers’ expense

Mike Harris: Sanctions against councillors who express an opinion are overzealous. Finally, a judge has stood up to such nonsense

‘Snooper’s charter’ delayed after last-minute coalition talks

Tracking of email, internet, Facebook and text use turned into standalone measure to speed crime bill's passage

Louise Mensch ‘troll’ is told he could face jail

Frank Zimmerman, 60, tried to drive the Conservative MP off Twitter by saying one of her children would be killed

Home Office highlights gaps in online surveillance of criminals

A quarter of police and agencies' data requests not met, says official, as government prepares to unveil web tracking laws

Louise, you don’t know the half of online cruelty

Catherine Bennett:Ms Mensch should be applauded for highlighting Twitter abuse, but internet hatred goes far beyond sexism

Why is there so much misogyny online?

The conversation: Why do women face such misogyny in the media, particularly online? TV presenter Miriam O'Reilly and feminist writer Nina Power share their thoughts and experiences

Internet porn? The Daily Mail isn’t always wrong

Michael White: It gets steamed up about the nanny state and peddles titillating smut, but what about the PM's plan to safeguard children?

Pornography online: David Cameron to consider ‘opt in’ plan

Government to consult with internet service providers on blocking adult material on the internet in the UK. By Josh Halliday

Hackers have breached top secret MoD systems, cyber-security chief admits

Major General Jonathan Shaw says 'it was a surprise to people quite how vulnerable we are'

The open source problem solvers creating government 2.0

Meet the new breed of technologist who's hacking the government at every level to make it work better for you

Keith Vaz urges tighter controls on violent video games

Labour MP who has criticised games in the past says more robust precautions must be taken before games are published. By Keith Stuart

Internet freedom ‘under threat from hasty legislation in UK and US’

Head of global media observation group says many countries are trying to restrict internet freedom in name of security

Ebay traders under HMRC tax spotlight

HMRC's ongoing tax dodging crackdown targets regular eBay traders and those who buy items to sell them on at a profit

Microsoft accused of trying to secretly influence government consultation

Cabinet Office removes facilitator of free software discussions who was also advising tech giant. By Charles Arthur

Freedom of Information requests 2011: how many were there and which were turned down?

Freedom of Information requests data shows more people than ever before trying to get key data out of government. See what it says

Government revives plan for greater data-sharing between agencies

Proposals expected to include fast-track procedures to license sharing of personal data in areas where it is currently prohibited

Databases continue to proliferate across Whitehall

The coalition government came to power on a mandate of rolling back the 'surveillance society', but plans to collect and share data are back on the table

Rupert Murdoch launches Twitter broadside against UK government

News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch criticised the decision to lend the IMF £10bn, as well as energy, education and tax policies

We should all be hacktivists now

Heather Brooke: Battle for the internet: In the state-orchestrated grab for cyber-territory we have to work together to ensure our online freedom is protected by law

Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet

Grateful Dead's John Perry Barlow explains why he is working to fund online activists hit by corporate blockades

US/UK extradition agreement too one-sided, says Keith Vaz

Vaz says extradition of student Richard O'Dwyer is the most apparent example of the 'one-sided' agreement