Information Dominance Center »

16 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Don’t tell me the NSA doesn’t have a sense of humour. NSA chief General Keith Alexander built his control room inspired by the flight deck on Star Trek’s spaceship Enterprise. And named it the Informa... »

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J’accuse Section 230 »

13 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Speaking of network neutrality, one of the related ideas is safe haven for intermediaries. This was first introduced in US leglislation by the Clinton administration in the so-alled Digital Millennium... »

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Some Data Packets More Equal than Others »

12 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The veil was lifted at last today for the world to see actual policy suggestions from the European Commission on the so-called Connected Continent, a.k.a. Digital Single Market. The main topics of deb... »

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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 nanosecond trades, but ingenious all the same. We were on the top flo... »

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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 defence signal intelligence agency FRA collaborated with the NSA (and supposedly as a part of PRISM) to m... »

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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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