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.
Throughout the western world, politicians appear keen on eliminating cash as a concept. There are many reasons on the surface - preventing armored car robberies, combating organized crime, making money…
Tracking is moving offline as computers get smarter, and face recognition technology is gaining steam rapidly with distributed systems. There are already prototype glasses that identify people in your field…
I'm currently attending a very dynamic entrepreneur conference in Barcelona, and one thing that stands out among entrepreneurs and investors is that everybody is feeling the onslaught on people's right…
Privacy and anonymity are two different concepts. They are both increasingly necessary as we get increasingly wiretapped and tracked, legally so or not, and it's important to understand why they…
This week, the Swedish Police was caught red-handed keeping illegal databases of Romani people and their kinship - no criminal history, no suspicion of crime, just Romani descent. This event…
The so-called Emerging Economies - the BRICS countries - have decided to build their own Internet infrastructure, circumventing American and European wiretapping points. While this is mostly skillful geopolitical play,…
In the past week, we have seen many details of just how much encryption and privacy technology the NSA and their corresponding agencies in other countries have penetrated. While it…
When my colleagues and I walk the streets of our cities and talk to people about privacy, a surprising number of them respond that they have no need for it.…