Yesterday’s vote in the Swedish Parliament about data retention — which fortunately went well for now — unveils a deeper issue with the way…
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Data Retention Postponed As Expected
As expected and hoped, data retention was postponed through a constitutional safeguard in Swedish Parliament today. This means that one year must pass until…
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LIVE: Data Retention Vote In Sweden
16:10. The vote on the constitutional safeguard is complete. 62 votes for postponement, 281 against, 6 absent. 281 votes is not five-sixths of Parliament….
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As Data Retention Looms In Sweden, It Is Already Useless
Today at 1600 hours, the Swedish Parliament will vote on Data Retention. The vote is expected and hoped to result in a one-year postponement…
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Tomorrow, Swedish Parliament Votes On Data Retention
Some time tomorrow, the Swedish Parliament will vote on whether to push Sweden yet another significant step towards a surveillance state through traffic data…
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The Library of Alexandria 2.0
In ancient times, there was a library in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Over the centuries, it had built a collection of all of…
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An Alternative to Pharmaceutical Patents
It has been previously established that the pharmaceutical industry is the only industry gaining from the patent system at all. For all other industries,…
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An Internet Levy is a Terrible Idea
The notion that all Internet users should somehow pay the old copyright monopoly structures a monthly fee, to compensate them for file sharing, has…
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Column: The Revolution Will Not Be Properly Licensed
Today, I have a column on TorrentFreak titled “The Revolution Will Not Be Properly Licensed“. If you like it, please Digg it! That’s really…
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Swedish Govt Preparing New Ways To Watch You
The awful Data Retention Directive appears to be coming to its end in the European Union. On March 23, the Commission will present an…
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