This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 19/05/2013 If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

Yesterday's events in Woolwich were appalling, but Lord Carlile and John Reid wasted no time in attempting to use this atrocity in justifying a return to reductions in personal privacy and other human rights.

Does BT need television to compete with other service providers? Should the owners who own the means of distribution be allowed to also own the content it streams? Wendy G explores the issue of network neutrality.

There's been concern recently about what mobile providers are doing with customers' data after a Sunday Times article on EE selling information about them. We've had a brief look at some of their customer data policies to try to work out what's going on.

Dr. Dinusha Mendis's article gives an insight into what 3D printing is, and what challenges it will pose to intellectual property laws.