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Birgitta Sponsors a Motion in Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Inter-Parlimentary Union is an organisation that lets MPs from parliaments around the world communicate and cooperate with each other. An opportunity to consider and voice opinions on matters of international interest and promote human rights. A video describing the union…
Surveillance Hangs Heavy Over Vienna
This article is a guest post from Rodney Yancey, who translated an article originally from Telepolis. Privacy groups in Austria are gearing up. Austria is a small country in the EU, but privacy concerns are as pressing here as everywhere else. It…
German Journalists Charged With Treason For Post-Snowden Documents
The last time journalists were charged for treason in Germany was the Spiegel affair in 1962. Yesterday the German news site netzpolitik.org (well known and respected for their work reporting on “net-politics”) received a letter from the Federal Attorney General…
Young Pirates Surveil Government Officials at Security Conference
The Swedish Pirate Party’s youth organisation Young Pirates recently visited a security conference in Sälen, Sweden – and took the opportunity to track a hundred government officials, politicians, journalists and others through an open WiFi network. The annual Society and Defence…
Exclusive: A Sneak Peek At CISPA 2015
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is the bill in the US Congress that just refuses to die. Like a zombie, it keeps rising from the dead to harass cyber activists and civil liberties advocates. In a slight…
Analogue Stress and Social Media Strategies (The Internet Days 2/2)
The second day of The Internet Days conference brought interesting keynotes by Harper Reed and Annie Machon. The conference gathered many of the people in Sweden working with IT in Sweden. The Pirate Times was there to listen in on some…
Freedom not Fear International Action Days
Freedom not Fear is an organization that coordinates over 150 NGOs, political parties, trade unions and other organisations that share common aims. Namely: To have freedom of speech in a digitized world and a free and uncensored internet to express…
The Turkish Government Goes Pirate: Further Censorship and Surveillance Mechanisms Coming
Due to legal obstacles to prohibiting social-media sharing by political dissidents in Turkey, the government has a new strategy: to act as Internet pirates. Much different than the political pirate movement, Turkey will now try to hack into ISPs’ systems…
Was the Stockholm Internet Forum More Than Nice Words?
In his ending keynote Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sweden, had many nice words to say about the future for Internet Freedom and what ought to apply but the question is how much of those where just words….
#SIF14 Conference, How Important is Internet Freedom?
Stockholm Internet Forum 2014 (SIF14) “aims to deepen the discussions on how freedom and openness on the Internet promote economic and social development worldwide”. This was the third time that the Stockholm Internet Forum was organized by The Swedish Ministry…
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