Horizon 2020 – A Chance to Include Privacy, Data Protection, and Human Rights in Technology »

16 April 2014 | Per Strömbäck

How can government have a tangible influence over technology? This issue is at the core of establishing rule of law online. In many cases, government intervention in digital is messy: it may be ineffi... »

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Data Retention’s Blind Spot »

12 April 2014 | Per Strömbäck

This week’s most important digital policy news was of course the European Court of Justices ruling that declares the Data Retention Directive invalid. Many pirates and so-called internet activists hav... »

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Net Neutrality or Not Net Neutrality? Is that really the question? »

2 April 2014 | Per Strömbäck

The European Parliament is as exciting as a cup final at the moment, at least if you are at all interested in digital issues (and if you read Netopia, I will assume you are). Thursday will see a close... »

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§8.3 Fixing the Internet – Not Breaking It »

30 March 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Technology is defined not so much by innovation and break-through research, but rather by government investment, policy decisions, competing standards, market changes, opposing business interests, and... »

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Cost Disease or Fixed Eyeballs »

18 March 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia contributor Ralf Grötker writes about William Baumol’s cost disease theory this week. I find this thought fascinating, but have some objections. First of all, it seems to be a cost-oriented ap... »

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The Problem with Cybersecurity »

11 March 2014 | Per Strömbäck

It may seem that all digital problems have a technological solution, often in the shape of cybersecurity. Worried your private images could spread across social media? Adjust access settings on Facebo... »

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Netopia on the Airwaves and in the Media »

6 March 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia's report Can We Make the Digital World Ethical? has created quite a stir. I gave an interview to Brussels online news and opinion front-runner EurActiv, which dubbed me "internet guru" (that's... »

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The Independence Delusion »

24 February 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Last week I visited a telecoms tech conference. This time it was for the companies that supply telecom operators with hardware: fiber, routers, switches, those sorts of things. Always interesting to v... »

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Can We Make the Digital World Ethical? »

15 February 2014 | Per Strömbäck

The digital revolution connects people. Or at least, so we’re told. Our assumption about the internet and digital technology is that it is about people communicating with people. Great benefits, anyon... »

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It’s progress, deal with it »

5 February 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf comments a new book by MIT researches Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age (yes, Netopia will review it shortly). The question is whether i... »

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