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.
Yet another election campaign is passing without privacy and other fundamental rights being discussed. While candidates certainly have different stances, judging on public discourse, they're not what makes or breaks…
Imagine you had a really strong and complex password. It was so hard for anyone to remember, that you had printed thousands of business cards with the complex password on…
The European Supreme Court rules that the subscriber identity behind an IP address is personal data, making such data protected by privacy laws. However, the court rules in a very…
This week, Signal finally introduced self-destructing messages. Regrettably, many seem to miss the point of what they're for. The point of a self-destructing message is not to protect against the…
Several people objected to the claim that "Scotland Yard says HTTPS is terrorism" by asserting that Scotland Yard is following the law to the letter. Maybe they are, but that…
Private Internet Access doesn't have a warrant canary. That's because warrant canaries alert somebody to damage that has already happened. The right way to go about the problem is to…
In a bizarre case, Scotland Yard is accusing a person for six separate acts of preparing terrorism. Those six acts include researching encryption, developing an "encrypted version" of his blog,…
In the Yahoo fallout, Europe is now accusing the United States for disallowing its corporations to give any kind of guarantees for handling sensitive private data. This means that US…
A key conclusion in my latest column deserves elaboration: why all available empiric data tells us that the only way to prevent misuse of surveillance data is to never collect…
Governments collect insane amounts of data about ordinary people, and officials get caught red-handed again and again using governmental surveillance networks to stalk private relations. It's been the NSA, it's…