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.
Politicians and law enforcement are still on scare campaigns against encryption. Such campaigns are morally corrupt. You have as much moral right to defend your data, as you have to…
The FBI keeps hammering at Google and Apple, saying that encrypting cellphones by default helps all kinds of criminals. Frankly, this is disgusting. Of the FBI, that is. They don't…
With Apple and Google both announcing default encryption for phones, we've hit a landmark pivot point. It used to be that encryption was a novelty for geeks. Now, big players…
A lot of news popped up about VPNs this week, all of them concerning how the copyright industry doesn't like them. That's when you know VPNs are serving a good…
A criminal group has obtained personal details for one of Sweden's largest anonymous forums. Done to scare, intimidate, and out political opponents discussing under protection of anonymity, the collateral damage…
It's now been 48 hours since the biggest leak of private nude photos of celebrities in history, an event dubbed "The Fappening". Details are starting to appear about what had…
Privacy isn't there for the purpose of protecting people who want to do wrong. Privacy is a more than a random civil right: it is a safeguard in a democratic…
An app that sends "Yo!" to your friends. That's all it does. Hacked up in eight hours, in the top-five apps, valued at 10 million dollars. What's interesting is that…
The European Court of Justice has famously ruled that Google must abide by a new "Right To Be Forgotten" and stop showing links to stories on request from the people…
Many believe several contradictory things about privacy. If we could figure out why this is, we could solve a lot of problems with governments disrespecting fundamental civil liberties, and worse,…