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 scandalous 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,... »

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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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Digital surveillance brings typewriters back in fashion »

15 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Keeping secrets online is notoriously difficult. Data has a tendency to escape when we least want it. Many of us have been caught with a white lie, as social media posts reveal that we may not have be... »

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Commission anti-trust investigation welcome »

12 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The EU commission announced yesterday that they will investigate whether the internet providers collaboration is a case of an illegal trust. While it is too early to draw conclusions about the outcome... »

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Unlimited innovation through apps? »

11 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The success of platforms like the Appstore and Google Play is beyond question. By giving developers access to a global market through a service that also provides payment options and device standards ... »

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There can be only one »

10 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Niche monopolies seems to be the nature of the internet, there is really only one search engine, one auction site, on ads listings site, one business networking service etc. It makes sense too, at lea... »

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