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.
The operator of the torrent site KickassTorrents has been arrested in Poland on an extradition request from Hollywood, and the domains seized. This action, while deplorable, shows that the copyright…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) says that mass surveillance of innocent people may be legal in a preliminary ruling issued today. The ECJ is the highest court in the…
With the information disarray coming out of Turkey during the (seemingly failed) military coup, we see the same pattern of attempting to control media as we've seen for the past…
There are two parallel prongs being executed right now to crack down on liberty in an unprecedented fashion: freedoms of assembly, of expression, of speech, and liberty overall. To realize…
In scrambling to the latest threat against liberty and the net like a wild goose chase, it's sometimes worth asking the bigger question: why do we have incompetent politicians in…
The United Kingdom appears to stubbornly move ahead with a ten year prison sentence for unauthorized sharing. This is not just counterproductive, but stupid and ineffective. Evidence shows that not…
Since 1975, Sweden has taken a DNA sample from all newborns for medical research purposes, and asked parents' consent to do so for this research purpose. This means that over…
Apple has been awarded a patent for making your camera refuse to record what it's seeing if it also sees something akin to an infrared strobe light. The intention is…
All debates on privacy at the society level tend to focus on the individual rights of people vs. a collective desire for law enforcement. But this view of individual vs…
Among all the questions talking about the consequences of a British exit from the European Union, one seems to have been unanswered: how does this affect your fundamental rights and…