The World in Numbers »

28 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Nothing spells objectivity like numbers – if you can make your case in numbers it becomes something greater than your personal view, it becomes fact. The idea that facts are neutral is very strong in ... »

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Internet.org – ok, great but what about democracy? »

27 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

A handful of prominent tech companies come together to form Internet.org, an initiative to bring internet service to the two-thirds of the global population that are not yet online. Mobile access is k... »

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Anonymity Not Most Important Driver for Online Hate »

25 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Anita Sarkeesian is a US media critic and feminist, currently visiting Europe. She spoke this week at the Media Evolution Conference. Sarkeesian was the victim of an especially vicious example of onli... »

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In Cloud we Trust »

18 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Cloud services ask us to trust them with plenty of personal information, but they often fail to respect that trust. The most recent example is that Google confirms what many have long suspected: that ... »

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We are data – who needs PRISM? »

9 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Online privacy hits big politics as US president Obama cancels his bilateral meeting with Russia’s Putin in September, in favour of a visit to my native Sweden. Clearly this is about Russia’s isupport... »

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Pacemaker-hacker Dies Young »

31 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Barnaby Jack was scheduled to talk about hacking pacemakers at the Black Hat convention in Vegas tomorrow, but was found dead last week in an apartment in San Francisco (police suspects no crime). Jac... »

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Cameron’s war on porn: right action, wrong reason »

25 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on Monday sounded almost like Netopia’s manifesto, in its call for a functioning regulated internet. While moral indignation may not be the best driving force ... »

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Vargas Llosa misses point on Snowden »

18 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Peruvian-Spanish author Mario Vargas Llosa has expressed his views on the Snowden-case in an El País op-ed that is syndicated today in many European newspapers. The Nobel Prize winner says that net wh... »

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Expert Dethroned »

17 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

American actress Jenny McCarthy used to be a scandal beauty in the Nineties, but lately she is more famous for her work against vaccines. Yes, against. She is the face of the anti-vaccine movement, wh... »

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My mind was blown at Tokyo’s NTT-ICC »

16 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Tokyo Digital Arts Museum Showed Ways Forward for Games, Maps and More A few years ago, I had the chance to visit the NTT Intercommunication Centre in Tokyo. It’s a digital slash video art museum s... »

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