Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (3/21): Posting an Anonymous Public Message
The liberties of our parents are not being inherited by our children - they are being lost wholesale in the transition to digital. Today, we'll look at the importance of…
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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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (2/21): The analog, anonymous letter
Our parents were taking liberties for granted in their analog world, liberties that are not passed down to our children in the transition to digital -- such as the simple…
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights: Our children should have the same rights as our parents
In a series of 21 posts on this blog, we'll examine how privacy rights -- essential civil liberties -- have been completely lost in the transition to digital. The erosion…
Once again: Privacy promises from a company are worth nothing, because companies can’t promise anything
In the last post, I recalled that the only thing that matter whether data collection is taking place is whether it's technically possible, and that if you carry an electronic…
Once again: If you carry a sensor of any kind, you must assume it to be active and collecting data, you can’t trust pinky promises
As Quartz revealed, Google has been tracking your location since the start of 2017. At this point, the story should not be about why Google did this, but why, with…
Net Neutrality is necessary regulation as a short-term emergency fix to previous bad regulation
Net Neutrality is a huge topic, again. But it's important to realize that Net Neutrality is mostly being discussed in the United States -- not because it is ahead, but…
Net Neutrality and the FCC: Let’s talk about this abusive pattern of releasing controversial policies on major holidays
So the FCC has released its plans to eradicate Net Neutrality in the United States, on Thanksgiving, as it said it would. This, on its own, merits more discussion -…
How did the free sharing of scientific knowledge and culture become the worst crime our justice systems could think of?
Sci-Hub is starting to get judgments and censorship applied against it. It's noteworthy that not even murder or genocide is considered cause for such Internet censorship as is now being…
European Union just decided to block websites without due process “For Consumer Protection”
In a new bill just passed by the European Parliament, the European Union decided to give Internet censorship powers to each state's consumer protection agency, completely without judicial oversight or…
Paywalls drive mass surveillance and give the NSA the advantage
Putting network specifications behind subscription paywalls gives the NSA and other surveillance agencies a decisive advantage against the freedom of the Internet. That is the unescapable conclusion of the recent…