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.
IBM acquired the detailed medical records of 61 million Italians, as reported on this site by Glyn Moody. This is a largely underreported story that doesn't not just need more…
The Internet had a Day of Action this past week in pointing out the necessity of Net Neutrality to governmental regulators. And yet, in arguing for governmental intervention, the bigger…
Imagine if copyright law listed tons of exceptions for free use that all publishers were required to respect. (Well, it does, kind of, even if the list in question is…
Police already have access to visors with built-in face recognition and fugitive spotting. The technology was in prototype stage a few years ago, and was successfully tested when police officers…
Ten years ago, in 2006, I stood on stage and said that companies who try to prevent their customers from sharing, such as the copyright industry, won't survive. Companies who…
The Russian communications directorate Roskomnadzor, equivalent to the U.S. FCC, has threatened to ban the Russia-authored encrypted messaging service Telegram. Curiously, this is the only service that has been threatened…
The British Internet provider O2 disputed the previous story that they don't permit people to access tools that give them anonymity protection, like this VPN service. "You only need to…
British Internet providers already censor political opinions they don't like. Specifically, they censor this blog by default, which is trivial to verify, thanks to Open Rights Group. This blog isn't…
A Finnish ruling appears to end the era of copyright trolls in the country. This follows a ruling in Norway, which although a different case, had the same effect in…
The revision of the copyright monopoly in the European Union continues its way through the European law factory. From Julia Reda, we learn that the Internal Market "IMCO" Committee has…