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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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…
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What if new Google management decided that a search should cost $20, take eight hours, and be deliberately unreliable? (Bitcoin.)
Toy with the following idea: with people used to Google searches having been free, instant and reliable for years, a new Google management decides…
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