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.
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
One year ago, we posted predictions for 2014 developments in the privacy field. As the year draws to a close, it's time to review them before trying to gaze into…
Twenty-six innocent people have been tortured by the CIA. These were people who had literally nothing to hide, but they had something to fear anyway. Civil liberties are either applied…