GDPR: All Data Is Not Created Equal (and Some Jokes Are Better than Others) »

25 May 2018 | Per Strömbäck

Does GDPR mean I have to contact all my old dates and ask if I can keep their phone numbers? Whatever becomes of GDPR, it has at least inspired scores of jokes. The bright side of the internet, peo... »

Message to Zuckerberg: There Is a Better Free »

22 May 2018 | Per Strömbäck

This afternoon, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is to appear in European Parliament to answer questions about the so-called data leaks connected to Cambridge Analytica. Zuckerberg should probably get used ... »

Repeating the Same Action for a Different Outcome »

16 April 2018 | Per Strömbäck

The drama around Facebook and Zuckerberg’s congressional hearing was the most exciting show in town last week. But what got us into this mess in the first place? Sure, Facebook started as a frat boy p... »

Legislative Harassment or How Many Times Can They Vote on the Same Policy? »

26 March 2018 | Per Strömbäck

After many twists and turns, the much-debated Geo-Blocking Regulation now comes into force. Does this mean the end of the debate on territories in the Digital Single Market? Of course not. Two years f... »

Do the Math: Facebook Lost $1000 Stock Value for Every Profile Cambridge Analytica Harvested »

22 March 2018 | Per Strömbäck

Techlash keeps snowballing. Only 16 months ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed Facebook’s influence on the US presidential election as a “pretty crazy idea”. He has apologized several times si... »

Spotify IPO, Re-Intermediation & “The Jesus Phone” »

13 March 2018 | Per Strömbäck

Spotify plans to become a publicly traded company. Its CEO Daniel Ek wrote a letter to investors talking about the plans. It talks about many things, but some have read parts of it as that Spotify wan... »

What if It’s Not Tech Addiction, but Something Worse? »

23 February 2018 | Per Strömbäck

Our devices control us more than we control them. We have become slaves to technology. Instant gratification triggers our dopamine system keeping us hooked on social media. We touch our phones several... »

#TechFix: How to Save the Internet »

15 February 2018 | Per Strömbäck

What if the problems around digital have been fixed before? If 2017 was the year of the Techlash, 2018 could be the year of the Techfix. The Techlash, when Silicon Valley started to ask if it had crea... »

RIP John Perry Barlow 1948-2018 »

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8 February 2018 | Per Strömbäck

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world – Shelley Who rules the internet? Some would say it’s a tug-of-war between tech companies and governments. Programmers vs lawyers. But more pow... »

Soros on IT Monopolies »

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26 January 2018 | Per Strömbäck

It was only a minute ago the internet was supposed to free us from all evils. Now more and more, we talk about the problems of the surveillance economy and power concentration online. Great, this is t... »