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.
This week, an appellate court in the United States ruled that cellphones may not be tracked without a warrant. It's a good ruling for privacy and one that comes significantly…
People who don't care for their privacy are missing a vital piece of the puzzle: everybody is safeguarding their own privacy and key pieces of others' privacy. By belittling the…
Edward Snowden's greatest fear was that his sacrifice would have no effect. To the contrary, it's having an effect throughout the entire Internet - and the biggest effect in the…
It's happened to all of us. We're asked why we bother defending our privacy, in a defeatist attitude - or worse, accused of having bad intentions when we're merely safeguarding…
Data collected about citizens have always been used against those citizens in the end, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes genocidal. In the Netherlands, the official population records contained a field…
There's a new War on Encryption going. It won't work. But it can cause a lot of headache and collateral damage, not to mention lost productivity hours trying to explain…
An exciting new service lets private individuals buy bitcoin directly from the bitcoin mines for the first time. The obvious advantage of doing so is the accompanying gains in privacy:…
Your refrigerator tells you when milk expires. Your cameras tell you remotely of anything unusual happening in your home. Your wi-fi-connected scale tells you about your BMI and body fat…
There's an argument being passed around that freedom of speech isn't a freedom to insult or offend. That argument is objectively and factually wrong. That's exactly what freedom of speech…
As the US Senate failed to renew the mass surveillance section of the US Patriot act, as of less than an hour ago, it has formally expired. This means that…