French Court Says French Freedom Of Speech May Trump Facebook’s Censorship
A French court has ruled that a challenge to Facebook's terms of service under French law may go ahead in a French court. A man had had his account suspended…
Rick Falkvinge
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.
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Linkage: Understanding The Combination Of Electronic Tracks You Leave Behind
In the movie Citizenfour, Jake Appelbaum is seen briefly giving a security primer to activists. He's talking about linkage: what happens when you supply two pieces of identity at the…
Superfish, Lenovo, Gemalto Show Need For Defense In Depth, End-To-End Security – And More
Last week, two significant events further demonstrated the necessity for defense in depth and for end-to-end encryption. It was revealed that surveillance agencies had broken into the mobile network and…
Understanding Net Neutrality: What If Your Kitchen Appliances Only Worked With One Power Company?
In the US, the regulation on Net Neutrality is coming to a showdown on February 26. For such a boring name, it has enormous implications, and well beyond the internet.…
“In This Way, Our Work Will Become Legal”: Don’t Count Your Chickens Over The GCHQ Verdict On Surveillance
Last week, there was a verdict in a UK court saying that the GCHQ had indeed broken the law with its bulk surveillance. While many privacy advocates rejoiced, so did…
The Pirate Bay Returns And China Filters VPNs
Two unrelated things coincide: The return of The Pirate Bay on one hand, and China banning VPNs on the other - actually, not banning them per se, but aggressively filtering…
New Bank Rules Make Monetary Privacy As Important As Data Privacy
We've learned the hard way over the decades that if you don't have physical control of your data, it's not your data. With the new bank account confiscation rules coming…
Charlie Hebdo: And Out Come The Surveillance Services Demanding More Budget, Powers
Following the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, everybody and their brother have come out in support of freedom of speech. The problem is, they don't even…
Why EFF’s “Let’s Encrypt” Initiative Is More Important Than It Seems
Late 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a small software utility called "Let's Encrypt", aimed at website administrators. It reduces the time and skill required to encrypt a website from…
Five Privacy Predictions For 2015
Last week, we looked at the predictions for 2014. As the new year approaches, it's appropriate to look at trends and see what we can make out of the big…