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An intellectual ode to Snowden, Assange and Manning

Snowden, Assange and Manning represent a whole new way of resisting. The Art of Revolt is as radical and original in its thinking as the three aforementioned notices are in their resistance work.
Steffen Moestrup -

Disagreement about health data

The Health Data Committee recommends the establishment of a national platform for health data, under dissent. Completely wrong focus, believes the head of the Norwegian Association for Medical Genetics.
Tori Aarseth -

Norwegians' communications must be mass-stored

There is an uproar over the introduction of the most comprehensive surveillance method Norway has seen.
Tori Aarseth -

Source protection and confidentiality can be set aside

"You can't do anything but communicate encrypted – I take it for granted that all open communication has already been intercepted," says filmmaker and journalist Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen.  
Tori Aarseth -

To plot people on the map

The traditional nomadic people of Mongolia are changing. Authorities are plotting the population on maps to get hold of them.
anrikevisser@gmail.com -

A fit complete totalitarian dictatorship

The technology needed to observe absolutely everything we do already exists. That scares Snowden's lawyer Ben Wizner.
Tori Aarseth -

Maybe it will go both winter and spring

I'm waiting for Edward Snowden. But he's not coming.
post@siriharrsteinvik.com -

Less monitoring, more humanity

Why is surveillance presented as the solution to the terror threat?
Tori Aarseth -

When the phone controls your life

Finally, your cell phone can avoid being eavesdropped or tracked. Now it is here – the phone case that blocks the surveillance of others. But?
anrikevisser@gmail.com -

Who owns the land?

In the last few columns I have written some of my own experiences. It is time to highlight the work of someone else. Today it must be about colleagues in the Municipal Report and Technical Weekly.
tarjei@leer-salvesen.no -

everyday Encryption 

Encryption for Hvermannsen is actually very simple.
tarjei@leer-salvesen.no -

Welcome to the cyber war

Countdown to Zero Day tells the story of Stuxnet, the world's first publicly known digital weapon. The book raises important questions about a war in which we can all become collateral damage. 
Tori Aarseth -

A desperate cry in the dark

"I want you to know that I'm never going to commit suicide." The Snowden quote says a lot about the precarious existence of those who dare to challenge the power of the surveillance state. 
Tori Aarseth -

Does mass surveillance continue in Europe?

The Consumer Council believes that in the near future we may notice serious and direct consequences of a lack of privacy. 
trinelejons@gmail.com -

Democracy self-harm

Anti-terrorism legislation is said to protect democracy – but through its thought-hunt, monitoring and neglecting public debate, it is in the process of breaking down democracy. 
jonwesselaas@gmail.com -

security tyranny

Our humanity is gradually wiped out as security measures increase. 
zygmuntbauman@gmail.com -
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