“Everything you say or do can and will be used against you, at any point in the far future when the context and agreeableness…
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Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. He lives on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, roasts his own coffee, and as of right now (2019-2020) is taking a little break.
Analog Equivalent Rights (5/21): Where did Freedom of Assembly go?
Our analog parents had the right to meet whomever they liked, wherever they liked, and discuss whatever they liked, without the government knowing. Our…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (4/21): Our children have lost the Privacy of Location
In the analog world of our parents, as an ordinary citizen and not under surveillance because of being a suspect of a crime, it…
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Analog Equivalent 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,…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (2/21): The analog, anonymous letter and The Pirate Bay
Our parents were taking liberties for granted in their analog world, liberties that are not passed down to our children in the transition to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Net Neutrality and the United States FCC: Let’s talk about this abusive pattern of releasing controversial policies on major holidays
So the United States FCC has released its plans to eradicate Net Neutrality in the United States, on Thanksgiving, as it said it would….
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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…
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