If you were the victim of a serious crime, you wouldn’t expect police to treat you like the suspect and investigate your private life. But that’s happening to thousands of people reporting rape and sexual assaults. Police are demanding digital strip searches of victims’ phones and social media accounts. Victims have to choose between privacy and justice — and now, half are dropping their complaints. This needs to stop.

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Freedom of expression is facing an unprecedented threat in the UK. The Government is planning ‘online harms’ laws that would make the internet an aggressively monitored, controlled speech zone. Speech that is lawful offline will be regulated online, stifling free expression, harming communities and setting a blueprint for online censorship internationally.

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