Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. Additionally, he has a tech entrepreneur background and loves good whisky and fast motorcycles.
A few people have commented on UK Prime Minister Theresa May jumping on the opportunity to argue for "regulating the Internet" after the most recent terror attacks. Fewer have highlighted…
This week, there was yet another ruling against video streaming that goes at odds with public perception of justice. This follows last month's ruling in the European Supreme Court (the…
Politicians do not understand the Internet. It is not so much that the politicians in power today in their 60s weren't born with it, even if that's also true. It's…
Denmark's ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry's lawyer armies. This follows a ruling in neighboring Norway, where…
Three years ago, Colombian researcher Diego Gomez was charged with copyright infringement for uploading one (1) academic paper to Scribd, and was facing four to eight years in prison for…
A little-noticed article in the Consumerist dropped a bombshell: Google is now deliberately tracking your offline activity, your credit card purchases, in order to feed information back to advertisers about…
The Swedish State Railways has decided to accept under-the-skin RFID tag implants for ticket purchases, arguing it enhances ticketless travel better than having your ticket in your mobile. Actually, they…
Something remarkable happened in Sweden this week: a list of 15,000 people with the wrong political opinions was used to block those people from the @Sweden account, and thereby preventing…
Britain's hospitals have been brought to a standstill because of ransomware infecting obsolete and unpatched Windows XP systems. The same obsolete operating system is powering Britain's nuclear weapons arsenal. Is…
A lot of computers, including those at hospitals and other critical institutions, are being hit by a new wave of ransomware. The weaponized parts of this software were developed by…