Fifteen years ago, Dr. Richard Stallman published a dystopic short story called “The Right To Read“. It is set in an extrapolated future of…
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Czech Constitutional Court Kills Data Retention
In a verdict today, the Czech Constitutional Court killed the Czech implementation of the detested Data Retention Directive. Ubiquitous surveillance of every human being…
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Who makes our laws?
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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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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The Internet is the Sum of All The People That Use It
”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,…
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Swedish MFA Cracking Down On Net
Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, has an op-ed piece today in the printed newspaper Expressen where he criticizes some of Sweden’s most…
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