Data collected about citizens have always been used against those citizens in the end, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes genocidal. In the Netherlands, the official population records contained a field…
There's a new War on Encryption going. It won't work. But it can cause a lot of headache and collateral damage, not to mention lost productivity hours trying to explain…
An exciting new service lets private individuals buy bitcoin directly from the bitcoin mines for the first time. The obvious advantage of doing so is the accompanying gains in privacy:…
Your refrigerator tells you when milk expires. Your cameras tell you remotely of anything unusual happening in your home. Your wi-fi-connected scale tells you about your BMI and body fat…
There's an argument being passed around that freedom of speech isn't a freedom to insult or offend. That argument is objectively and factually wrong. That's exactly what freedom of speech…
As the US Senate failed to renew the mass surveillance section of the US Patriot act, as of less than an hour ago, it has formally expired. This means that…
As I wrote in my last column, an expiry of the Patriot Act means nothing to what the NSA does or does not. They have been wiretapping phonecalls since at…
Right now, there is a debate about a small section of the Patriot Act in the U.S., and which option best removes the authorization from the U.S. NSA to wiretap…
This week, new invasive spying bills passed in Canada and in France. Both of them, as usual, go beyond what has been seen before in their audacity. But a private…
A High Court in the UK has ordered several entire sites censored, at the request of the copyright industry, because they link to the Popcorn Time application. This is an…