Here’s the latest twist in the saga of the seizure of Indymedia‘s web servers. This ought to be an urgent and compelling story of international law and data protection, but unfortunately everything seems to be covered by secrecy agreements, and so all we can do is speculate. However the bottom line seems to be that an Italian judge was able to persuade the FBI to seize computer systems in England, possibly violating several UK laws, without the involvement of UK law enforcement agencies. The way things are going, I’m probably breaking the law (somewhere – does that matter any more?) just by blogging about the affair. Paging George Orwell….