Kenyan Parliament Seeks to Regulate Social Media
Moses Injendi MP wants fines and prison sentences for unregistered bloggers and administrators of social media groups.
UN Human Rights Report Backs Encryption
A UN Special Rapporteur blasted governments for undermining encrypted and anonymous comms. He encouraged tech companies to secure their customers’ right to free speech.
UK Govt Official Recommends Fake Names on the Internet
A few weeks ago, I wrote how privacy activists encourage internet users to provide fake data instead of their personal details. Such a practice, if…
Predicting Garbage In, Garbage Out
Right now there is a lot of talk about business models that give people what they want based on the data accumulated about them. For…
Too Much Privacy is also a Risk
In his post entitled ‘An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP‘, Eric Priezkalns reviewed the potential for Nicholas Merrill and the Calyx Institute…
An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP
Privacy. I like mine. You may have lost yours already. Once lost, privacy is not something you can easily recover. However, these days people keep…
Virtual Currency Under Fire
Fans of Bitcoin, the digital currency, will tell you it is safer, cheaper, freer and more transparent than ordinary state-backed currencies. The currency works as…