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 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…
The European Commission has promised a number of things related to IT in its State of the European Union address. Two promises that stand out are another harshening of the…
Max Schrems is at it again: after having made the sharing of private European data to corporations in United States banned by the European Court of Justice, he's now seeking…
The European Commission has finally presented its long-awaited copyright reform proposal. It ignores everything positive the European Parliament demanded in the earlier Reda report, and doubles down on introducing copyright…
Reactions have been all over the map about the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on the legality of hyperlinks to infringing material. Some outlets despair that links can be…
In a fresh and mostly welcomed decision, the European Court of Justice - the highest court in the European Union - has ruled that hyperlinking is legal, even when linking…
Norwegian politicians from the Christian People's Party are shocked that there is porn on the Internet, and want it eliminated - censored off all the Internet pipes as though the…
This week, copyright trolls in Sweden announced they'll start sending extortion letters later this year to people who have been sharing music and movies. It follows an all too familiar…
The TTIP is all but dead: it will never happen. That's my professional political opinion after Germany and France have said that it's stalled and called for its scrapping, respectively.…