Who Watches the Watchmen? »

10 November 2013 | Per Strömbäck

If you only read one more story on NSA, Snowden, and surveillance, let it be Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger’s detailed account in the November issue of The New York Review of Books. The Guar... »

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The False Truths of Google Auto-Complete »

7 November 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The UN campaign on women’s rights is provocative and deserves all the recognition it gets. It features a photo where a Google search box covers a woman’s mouth, the search phrase is “women should not.... »

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Twitter Prankster Pardoned »

5 November 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Of all the funny jokes on the internet, this may be the smartest. It has been said that the Jester was the only one who could talk straight to the King. The bells and stupid hat protected him from ang... »

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Even in Silicon Valley, No Man is an Island »

4 November 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Silicon Valley’s desire to escape the national domain is short-sighted and ill-informed, writes Farhad Manjoo in the Wall Street Journal. While many prominent tech entrepreneurs have expressed a wish ... »

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Facebook’s arbitrary freedom of speech definition »

3 November 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Rob den Bleyker is a cartoonist, he was locked-out from Facebook for twelve hours after having uploaded an innocent cartoon that someone found offensive. It is ironic that the bar for what is acceptab... »

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Facebook’s biometric database »

30 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

As reported, I found Mikko Hypponen’s contribution the most valuable part of TEDx Brussels. His insight, one-liners, unrelenting de-construction of the counter-arguments pro-surveillance… that’s the s... »

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The Problem with TED »

29 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

I have a problem with TED. It’s like: you’re so smart, I’m so smart. That’s really West coast! I want to argue about ideas! The words of my US East coast intellectual friend echoed in my mind as I ... »

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Zeno’s Turtle Beats the Singularity »

28 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Zeno was an ancient Greek philosopher who argued that our senses deceive us and that we must trust our mind only in trying to understand the world. A true rationalist. Zeno sought to convince the worl... »

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Guns as a freedom of speech issue »

25 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

This week EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström expressed concern that disruptive technologies like 3D printers could challenge the gun control regime. It would only take a few days before her worries wer... »

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Merkel’s Needle in Obama’s Haystack »

24 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

PEN International’s Larry Siems makes a strong case describing the problems with ubiquitous surveillance on the so-called Dissident Blog. Talking about the proverbial needle in the haystack, Siems sho... »

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