Remember, remember: Good evening, London…
It is that time of the year, again. This is worth remembering, every year. https://youtu.be/KKvvOFIHs4k?t=27s Privacy not just remains your own responsibility: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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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France, Spain, Portugal pushing new bill that considers file-sharing a more serious crime than terrorism and child exploitation
France, Spain, and Portugal are now arguing that people sharing music and movies together is a more serious threat to society than terroristic mass murder or child exploitation. This becomes…
Canvas data fingerprinting: yet another way to track you on the web (and Firefox fighting back)
There's yet another way to fingerprint people online as they move between sites, and that list is getting long by now. This new vulnerability concerns a "canvas" in your browser,…
The recent catastrophic Wi-Fi vulnerability was in plain sight for 13 years behind a corporate paywall
The recent Wi-Fi "KRACK" vulnerability, which allowed anyone to get onto a secure network (and which was quickly patched by reputable vendors), had been in plain sight behind a corporate-level…
Bizarre: Swedish Minister of Justice shames ISP in public for NOT doing illegal wiretapping
Something quite bizarre just happened on Twitter: the Swedish Minister of Justice went out of his way to lash out at the ISP most known for privacy in Sweden, criticizing…
Reminder: In government training material, “terrorism” includes peacefully disagreeing with administration policy in public
Governments are still using "terrorism" as a scareword to get any insane law passed - like Britain's digital book-burning law. But with its other hand, those same governments are expanding…
Why does Britain want to put the public in prison for fact-checking claims in the mainstream media?
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a fifteen-year prison sentence for watching terrorist propaganda, whatever that means this week. There is an exception for academics and journalists with "legitimate…
Britain announces 15 years in prison for reading banned literature
British lawmakers have announced 15 years in prison for taking part of banned literature. However, the threat of prison only covers new story formats that lawmakers think don't deserve the…
Big Canadian ISP is actually asking the Canadian Government for Internet censorship
Bell Canada, one of Canada's major ISPs, is requesting the Canadian government to create a governmental censorship regime, blacklisting resources that Canadians shall not be reading. According to Bell Canada,…
Why shouldn’t copyright law apply on the Internet?
Every so often, you hear copyright industry lobbyists ask "why copyright law shouldn't apply on the Internet", suggesting that the Internet is a lawless land with regard to people sharing…