privacy
Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström: ‘Europe is stronger than the US’
The newly elected pirate MEP, 49, a former computer programmer from Stockholm, talks about the EU-US relationship, eyes turning towards Sweden again and Europe’s second wave of pirate parties. Part I in a special edition marking the six-month Swedish presidency of the EU
privacy, christian engström, sweden, european parliament, mep, interview, united states
'Virtual Life': EU's three year, 3.3 million euro 3D virtual world project
Virtual constitutions and nations, a 3D world, democracy and censorship: these are the keywords of a virtual reality project in the style of Second Life financed by the European Union for a total of three million euros. Welcome to Virtual Life
privacy, second life, structural funds, comics, censorship, pope benedict xvi, satire
Facebook privacy - what’s yours is mine
Finding the nice French guy from the bar, showing your American high school mates new photos, keeping in touch with your Spanish friend - the social network renders this possible and profits from the personal details of its 175 million users worldwide. Facebook backtracked on changing its 'terms of use' in February
privacy, facebook, consumption society, internet, mark zuckerberg, society, culture
