Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been…
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Europe
Pirates enter another parliament: Congratulations to the Czech Pirate Party!
The Czech Pirate Party is entering Parliament at an estimated 9.7% with half the votes counted. The Czech pirates have fought long and hard,…
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British government announces 15 years in prison for reading banned literature
British lawmakers have announced 15 years in prison for taking part of banned literature. However, the threat of prison only covers new story formats…
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Why does Britain want to put the public in prison for fact-checking claims in the mainstream media?
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a fifteen-year prison sentence for watching terrorist propaganda, whatever that means this week. There is an exception…
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Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on the upcoming copyright vote
On October 10, an important committee in the European Parliament will vote on future copyright law. It hangs in the balance, and ordinary people…
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Danish ISPs stop providing copyright industry with subscriber identities
Denmark’s ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry’s lawyer armies. This follows…
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Is it prudent to ask if Britain’s nuke subs, which also run Windows XP, have also been hit by ransomware?
Britain’s hospitals have been brought to a standstill because of ransomware infecting obsolete and unpatched Windows XP systems. The same obsolete operating system is…
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Airport: “We’re tracking every single footstep you take and can connect it to your mail address, but your privacy is safe because we say so”
A sign on the revolving entrance to a European airport, one sign among many, says “the airport employs wi-fi and bluetooth tracking; your privacy…
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In an EU without Britain and France, weaker and sensible copyright policy would emerge
Britain and France have been the primary copyright hawks in the EU, pushing for stronger distribution monopolies and harsher penalties at every turn. With…
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Told you so: Airport-style identity checks coming to train travel
Several European countries will start requiring photo ID from passengers to ride trains, similar to airport identity checks. The requirement concerns the high-speed Thalys…
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