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.
It's interesting to watch people rushing to defend the legal processes in this week's story about a man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt, and who are asserting that everything…
An appeals court has denied the appeal of a person who is jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt files. The man has not been charged with anything, but was ordered…
A Minnesota judge has issued a warrant to Google to provide the local police with all data relating to anybody who searched for specific keywords. This is an enormous expansion…
The makers of an Internet-connected sex toy have settled to pay a small amount to some 300,000 owners of a vibrator which was used to spy on their sex habits,…
The American SEC, which oversees financial institutions, has rejected a bid to create a traditional trading fund (an ETF) based on bitcoin. The trading fund was the initiative of the…
With WikiLeaks' release of the CIA hacking tools, we can observe that the people described as tinfoil hats were wrong once again - nobody had described the state of affairs…
In a surprise move, Switzerland has a bill passing through parliament that would introduce net censorship to protect domestic gambling against foreign competition. This is as dangerous as it is…
The copyright industry is trying - again - to forcefully conscript Internet Service Providers into doing their bidding. This time, the RIAA and other organizations are demanding "filtering", which is…
Google has agreed to demote so-called "pirate" sites from its search results, at the demands of the copyright industry. All experience from the past 600 years says this is a…
All governments of the world are cracking down on privacy and increasing mass surveillance, sometimes in the name of copyright enforcement, sometimes in the name of fighting terrorism, sometimes because…