MEP Schaake: “Stop Digital Arms Trade” »

11 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

I posted the other day about Sweden’s digital surveillance exports to the Syrian regime two years ago. Today MEP Marietje Schaake (ALDE) gave a plenary speech on a very similar topic – closing the reg... »

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Internet of Things 20 Years Before »

9 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

True story: Twenty years ago, my university dorm neighbour invented stock market robot trading. Arguably crude compared to today’s nano-second trades, but ingenious all the same. We were on the top fl... »

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Syria – Weapons of Mass Surveillance »

8 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

As the world holds its breath waiting for the global community’s reaction to the developments in Syria, Netopia asks if there is a digital angle to the story. In the early days of Syrian protests in t... »

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Swedish Sardine »

7 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

In the wake of Barack Obama’s visit to my native Sweden this week, the news broke that Swedish defense signal intelligence agency FRA collaborate with the NSA (and supposedly as a part of PRISM) to mo... »

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From Tech Crime to Big Politics »

5 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

What do Julian Assange, Peter Sunde and Kim Dotcom have in common? Sure, they are famous tech activists slash criminals (depending on where you stand). Assange is a crook according to US security agen... »

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When you have a hammer, everything looks like nails »

4 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia contributor Paul Frigyes reviews an influential book today: "Big Data", by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier. Read it, because big data is a huge topic in tech, business and policy. ... »

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Pockets of resistance »

3 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Not that Netopia believes the conspiracy theories that Microsoft put Elop in Nokia to bring down the share price before the acquisition, but it’s funny how tech business news seems to always inspire s... »

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Mobile Matrix of Pain »

1 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Some app-developers call the Iphone “The Jesus Phone”. Yes, it may be sort of an exaggeration, but when the Iphone launched five years ago, it solved many issues that mobile software had struggled wit... »

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Uninventing the Computer »

31 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Should every possibility that technology provides also be realized? This is the question I touched upon in a previous post about Barnaby Jack’s (RIP) pacemaker hack. Put like this, most would say not ... »

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From Atoms to Bits – and back! »

29 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Nicholas Negroponte famously articulated the vision in the Nineties that digital technology translates atoms into bits, relieving information from its physical vessels – good point, now most media is ... »

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