Bill Goodwin

Computer Weekly's Bill Goodwin has seen both sides of the courtroom during a career spent exposing the surveillance state and protecting those who wish to let the world know its secrets

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Bill Goodwin, investigations editor, joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna to discuss the case of Julian Assange, whose recent extradition hearing at The Old Bailey…

Julian Assange’s medical conditions did not prevent him from being extradited for trial or being held in a US prison, a court heard on 24 September. Nigel Blackwood, an NHS consultant psychiatrist, told the Old Bailey that the WikiLeaks’ founder had…

Julian Assange has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, severe depression and other mental health conditions which put him at risk of suicide, the court heard during his extradition hearing. Assange is at high risk of suicide if he is extradited to…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to face an extradition hearing in September, after a court decided to delay proceedings because of the Covid-19 lockdown. Westminster Magistrates’ Court said the US government’s extradition case against Assange…

Lauri Love was told by a court today that the UK’s intelligence agency, the National Crime Agency (NCA), had no duty to return computer equipment seized from his parents’ home five years ago. During a heated exchange at Westminster Magistrates’…

Lauri Love, the 34-year-old computer activist who faces a UK police investigation into allegations that he hacked into US government computers, appeared in court today arguing for the return of computer equipment seized by the National Crime Agency…

From Russian disinformation, state surveillance and police stop and seizure powers, to Facebook and WikiLeaks data-sharing issues, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 national security stories from the past year. This in-depth investigation by Duncan…

Lauri Love, the 34-year-old who successfully fought a five-year battle against extradition to the US to face hacking charges, is taking legal action against the National Crime Agency to recover computer equipment seized by the UK police. Love, who…

The US government has confirmed it will not appeal against a landmark decision by the Court of Appeal not to extradite 33-year-old engineering student Lauri Love to face hacking charges in the US. The Crown Prosecution Service gave an undertaking to…

The verdict, when it came on Monday 5 February 2018, was a massive relief for Lauri Love, the 33-year-old student accused of hacking US government computer systems. “A gnawing parasite that was chewing away at my soul appears to have disappeared and…

By Julia Gregory and Niels Ladefoged A relieved Lauri Love (pictured above) plans to concentrate on using the internet as ‘a force for good’, getting volunteers together to combat malware attacks. He told Computer Weekly he is setting up a social…

By Bill Goodwin & Julia Gregory Lauri Love will not face extradition to the US to face hacking charges, the court of appeal ruled this morning. In a landmark legal decision, the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, ruled that extraditing Love, a…

The Court of Appeal will announce on Monday whether 33-year-old engineering student Lauri Love should be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, in a landmark case that could challenge the validity of UK extradition laws. Love, who has…

When Edward Snowden released documents showing the extraordinary scale of UK and US surveillance on ordinary people back in 2013, there were many in the intelligence agencies who were rightly worried that their surveillance powers would be challenged…

One of the UK’s former top prosecutors has confirmed that alleged hacker Lauri Love is being treated unusually by extraditing him to face trial in the US. Evidence from former director of public prosecutions Ken Macdonald revealed that it is normal…

Conditions in a US detention centre where alleged hacker Lauri Love could be sent are so bad that a judge refused to send a prisoner there, the High Court has heard. Edward Fitzgerald QC said the facilities at the Metropolitan Detention Centre (MDC)…

When the Shadow Brokers released dangerous NSA hacking tools on to the internet, Lauri Love, teamed-up with friends in IT security to analyse the threat. Working with former members of the Lulzsec hacking group, who are now using their security…

Prime minister Theresa May has failed to ask US president Donald Trump to allow Lauri Love, the British engineering student accused hacking US government computer systems, to be tried in the UK – despite serious concerns about his health – his…

Lauri Love, the former engineering and computing student facing jail in the US over allegations that he hacked into US government computer systems, has been granted permission to appeal against extradition. Love is accused of hacking into key US…