The makers of an Internet-connected sex toy have settled to pay a small amount to some 300,000 owners of a vibrator which was used…
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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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Understanding the fundamental, irreconcilable conflict between copyright enforcement and privacy of communication
Enforcement of copyright is fundamentally, conceptually incompatible with privacy of correspondence. You can't have the sealed and private letter in existence at the same…
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In science fiction, robot witnesses to crime are seen as normal. Nobody considered the privacy implications for present day.
The Police wants the cooperation of a robotic witness to a murder case, requesting Amazon’s help in recalling what the domestic robot “Echo” heard…
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The Government didn’t install cameras and microphones in our homes. We did.
It begins: Amazon’s constantly-listening robotic home assistant was near a domestic murder case, and now the Police wants access to anything it might have…
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Remember, remember, the Fifth of November
In the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the Fifth by taking some time out of our daily lives and…
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"Why I'm Voting Pirate" – A Testimony From An Ex-Soviet
This testimony – “Why I’m Voting Pirate” – was published by Leila Borg, a person who grew up in the Soviet Union but moved…
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Sweden Goes Full Retard, Requires Registration Of Every Individual Playing Lottery
Sweden, like most European countries, has a number of governmentally-run state lotteries that are an efficient extra tax on the people who can’t math…
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Pirate Party Vindicated By Highest EU Court, Killing Mass Surveillance Law. Oldmedia Reacts By Writing Cat Story.
The Swedish Pirate Party’s political work has been consistently ignored by Swedish media from our setting foot in the European Parliament in general, and…
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Europarl Suspends U.S. Trade Talks, Data Sharing Over Mass Surveillance
The European Parliament has just voted on a comprehensive bill to express its massive disapproval of U.S. mass spying on ordinary citizens. In the…
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