As the dust settles after the November 15 bitcoin upgrade, the roadmaps have been updated with the new state of the protocol and people…
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…
Analog Equivalent Rights (21/21): Conclusion, privacy has been all but eliminated from the digital environment
In a series of posts on this blog, we have shown how practically everything our parents took for granted with regards to privacy has…
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Pirate Party enters parliament in Luxembourg, gets 17% in Prague
This past weekend, elections were held in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic. The Pirate Party of Luxembourg tripled their support and entered the Luxembourg…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever
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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Analog Equivalent Rights (15/21): Our digital children’s conversations are muted on a per-topic basis
At worst, our analog parents could be prevented from meeting each other. Our digital children are prevented from talking about particular subjects, once the…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (14/21): Our analog parents’ dating preferences weren’t tracked, recorded, and cataloged
Our analog parents’ dating preferences were considered a most private of matters. For our digital children, their dating preferences is a wholesale harvesting opportunity…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON’T buy
We’ve seen how our digital children’s privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded
In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (11/21): Our parents used anonymous cash
The anonymous cash of our analog parents is fast disappearing, and in its wake comes trackable and permissioned debit cards to our children. While…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (10/21): Analog journalism was protected; digital journalism isn’t
In the analog world of our parents, leaks to the press were heavily protected in both ends – both for the leaker and for…
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