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.
We've seen how our digital children's privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would have balked at. But even worse:…
In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to the fact that we're tracked when…
The anonymous cash of our analog parents is fast disappearing, and in its wake comes trackable and permissioned debit cards to our children. While convenient, it's a wolf in sheep's…
In the analog world of our parents, leaks to the press were heavily protected in both ends - both for the leaker and for the reporter receiving the leak. In…
Our analog parents had the ability to read news anonymously, however they wanted, wherever they wanted, and whenever they wanted. For our digital children, a government agent might as well…
Ross Ulbricht handed in his appeal to the Supreme Court this week, highlighting an important Analog Equivalent Privacy Right in the process: Just because you're using equipment that makes a…
When our analog parents searched for information, that activity took place in libraries, and that was one of the most safeguarded privacies of all. When our digital children search for…
"Everything you say or do can and will be used against you, at any point in the far future when the context and agreeableness of what you said or did…
Our analog parents had the right to meet whomever they liked, wherever they liked, and discuss whatever they liked, without the government knowing. Our digital children have lost this, just…
In the analog world of our parents, as an ordinary citizen and not under surveillance because of being a suspect of a crime, it was taken for granted that you…