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Decentralized Energy
December 18, 2017
Meanwhile, Swiss- and UK-based nonprofit Energy for Humanity reports that the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Kirkkonummi have initiated studies to ... Petrus Pennanen, Helsinki city council member and vice-chair of the Finnish Pirate Party, said: “More than half of the greenhouse emissions of all of HelsinkiÃÂ ...
TorrentFreak
November 24, 2017
As Switzerland tries to amend copyright law in a way that will appease copyright holders without alienating the public, a new draft compromise is on the table. While it will remain legal for people to download or stream pirated content privately, webhosts will be required to reject pirate sites while operating aÃÂ ...
CalvinAyre.com
October 2, 2017
Switzerland's legislature has approved its controversial new gambling laws, but a voter referendum could undo the plans before they take effect. ... The referendum push is also supported by the so-called Pirate Party and the Digitale Gesellschaft, a non-profit group that advocates for internet freedoms.
Pirate Times
April 29, 2017
After several weeks of research and analysis of the US-Privacy Shield agreement and its implementation, this morning, the Swiss Pirate Party (PPS) notified the Federal Data ... In fact, from our research, it appears that the US government has no legal basis for approving the agreement with Switzerland.
The Cryptosphere
April 18, 2017
Press Release: Swiss Domain Registry Switch threatening to disable wikileaks.ch. By raincoaster on ... Last Friday the Pirate Party of Switzerland informed theWikileaks team that the Swiss domain registry Switch had detected malware under that domain and was threating to disable it. Wikileaks has not yetÃÂ ...
Intellectual Property Watch
February 20, 2017
For the German Pirate Party, the dismantling of “LiMux” is a step in the wrong direction. At the third edition of the Pirate Security Conference Pirate Party members from Luxembourg, Iceland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic discussed how to take back data and even algorithms – and how to winÃÂ ...
Basic Income News
January 4, 2017
As we've reported here, the Finnish government is starting a two-year experiment on a basic income. When the government announced it in last August, a Basic Income News editor conducted a series of interviews in Finland. Summaries of those with the government and a long-term advocate, the Greens,ÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
October 23, 2016
And to a string of electoral impossibilities that suddenly became reality - including Britain voting for Brexit and Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination - the world may soon add a Pirate Party-led government in Europe. Victory for the Pirates may not mean much in isolation. This exceptionallyÃÂ ...
Inverse
September 21, 2016
Can Iceland be to data what Switzerland is to money? The Pirate Party's captain is betting on it. ... The Icelanders made moves: They jailed the bankers responsible for the crash, crowdsourced a new constitution and got behind the Pirate Party — the once fringe political movement that's expected to win aÃÂ ...
Decentralized Energy
December 18, 2017
Meanwhile, Swiss- and UK-based nonprofit Energy for Humanity reports that the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Kirkkonummi have initiated studies to ... Petrus Pennanen, Helsinki city council member and vice-chair of the Finnish Pirate Party, said: “More than half of the greenhouse emissions of all of HelsinkiÃÂ ...
CalvinAyre.com
October 2, 2017
Switzerland's legislature has approved its controversial new gambling laws, but a voter referendum could undo the plans before they take effect. ... The referendum push is also supported by the so-called Pirate Party and the Digitale Gesellschaft, a non-profit group that advocates for internet freedoms.
Pirate Times
April 29, 2017
After several weeks of research and analysis of the US-Privacy Shield agreement and its implementation, this morning, the Swiss Pirate Party (PPS) notified the Federal Data ... In fact, from our research, it appears that the US government has no legal basis for approving the agreement with Switzerland.
The Cryptosphere
April 18, 2017
Press Release: Swiss Domain Registry Switch threatening to disable wikileaks.ch. By raincoaster on ... Last Friday the Pirate Party of Switzerland informed theWikileaks team that the Swiss domain registry Switch had detected malware under that domain and was threating to disable it. Wikileaks has not yetÃÂ ...
Intellectual Property Watch
February 20, 2017
For the German Pirate Party, the dismantling of “LiMux” is a step in the wrong direction. At the third edition of the Pirate Security Conference Pirate Party members from Luxembourg, Iceland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic discussed how to take back data and even algorithms – and how to winÃÂ ...
Basic Income News
January 4, 2017
As we've reported here, the Finnish government is starting a two-year experiment on a basic income. When the government announced it in last August, a Basic Income News editor conducted a series of interviews in Finland. Summaries of those with the government and a long-term advocate, the Greens,ÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
October 23, 2016
And to a string of electoral impossibilities that suddenly became reality - including Britain voting for Brexit and Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination - the world may soon add a Pirate Party-led government in Europe. Victory for the Pirates may not mean much in isolation. This exceptionallyÃÂ ...
Inverse
September 21, 2016
Can Iceland be to data what Switzerland is to money? The Pirate Party's captain is betting on it. ... The Icelanders made moves: They jailed the bankers responsible for the crash, crowdsourced a new constitution and got behind the Pirate Party — the once fringe political movement that's expected to win aÃÂ ...
Pirate Times
April 29, 2017
In effect, this means that Swiss data is not protected under the ... the Privacy Shield agreement, and as far as Switzerland is concerned, he has succeeded! ... The Swiss Pirate Party demands that measures be taken to protectÃÂ ...
The Cryptosphere
April 18, 2017
Last Friday the Pirate Party of Switzerland informed theWikileaks team that the Swiss domain registry Switch had detected malware under thatÃÂ ...
Pirate Times
April 15, 2017
In 2010, during April 16th-18th, Pirate Parties International (PPI) held its ... One shoe doesn't fit all, each and every pirate party around the ... Establishing our finances (wiki.pp-international.net/Finances) with a bank account in Switzerland and a Bitcoin exchange account has .... Swiss Privacy Shield Down!
Intellectual Property Watch
March 3, 2017
The Swiss Parliament this week adopted new legislation to regulate .... from the Swiss Pirate Party warned the net blocking would question theÃÂ ...
Intellectual Property Watch
February 20, 2017
At the third edition of the Pirate Security Conference Pirate Party members from Luxembourg, Iceland, Switzerland and the Czech RepublicÃÂ ...
Basic Income News
January 4, 2017
This is a longer version of the interview with Tapani Karvinen, who is a politician from the Pirate Party of Finland. He served as the chair of theÃÂ ...
TechCrunch
September 26, 2016
In Switzerland, these regulations are set out in the Swiss Federal Act ... the effort became groups like the Pirate Party, the Socialists, and ChaosÃÂ ...
Inverse
September 21, 2016
Can Iceland be to data what Switzerland is to money? ... the parliamentarian who co-founded the Icelandic Pirate Party and appears poised toÃÂ ...
Scoop.co.nz
December 31, 1999
Switzerland has been experimenting with direct democracy in the ... Both Podemos in Spain and Iceland's Pirate Party ran on platforms of directÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
March 11, 2017
These reports, originating with the Swiss publication Das Magazin (published in translation by Vice), were clearly written in good faith, but apparently with insufficient diligence.
The Guardian
March 6, 2017
These reports, originating with the Swiss publication Das Magazin (published in translation by Vice), were clearly written in good faith, but apparently with insufficient diligence.
Intellectual Property Watch
February 20, 2017
For the German Pirate Party, the dismantling of "LiMux" is a step in the wrong direction. At the third edition of the Pirate Security Conference Pirate Party members from Luxembourg, Iceland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic discussed how to take ...
Nigeria Today
February 10, 2017
The Dutch Electoral Council reportedly rejected a payment in Bitcoin from the country's Pirate Party to participate in upcoming elections.
BloombergQuint
January 11, 2017
The Independence Party, which resisted a challenge from the populist Pirate Party to win the most votes in the Oct. 29 snap elections, replaced its traditional coalition party, the Progressive Party, with two new junior allies -- the Reform Party and ...
swissinfo.ch
January 1, 2017
Voters said no to a peace accord signed between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC.
Nigeria Today
December 22, 2016
... clamoring for easier ways to obtain encrypted data, from Hillary Clinton to President Obama. People carrying digital assets like bitcoin on encrypted phones, President Obama once said, is akin to carrying a "Swiss bank account" in one's pocket ...
The Guardian
December 21, 2016
... tradition of hurling Icelandic yoghurt and waving bananas. Gunnlaugsson eventually resigned - and in so doing, launched a year of political upheaval; this month, the Pirate party was invited to form a government. ... Art Center, a company ...
Iceland Monitor
November 30, 2016
Icelandic MPs are expected to be convened next week to debate the draft State budget for 2017 - despite the country still being run by a caretaker government.
Global Voices Online
November 30, 2016
The Tunisian Pirate Party released a statement (in Arabic) on 19 October warning of the risks of storing massive amounts of citizen data in a centralized database.
Northwest Arkansas News
October 31, 2016
The Pirates, an offshoot of an international movement launched in Sweden, had campaigned on a platform of direct democracy, transparency and turning Iceland into "a digital safe haven, the Switzerland of bits." The party's leader, poet Birgitta ...
Stuff.co.nz
October 30, 2016
The Pirate Party, a radical movement of anarchists and hackers that didn't exist this time four years ago, surged to third place in Iceland's national elections but fell well short of expectations that it could top the vote, according to results ...
CoinTelegraph
October 30, 2016
Iceland's Pirate Party may win the national elections. When that happens, it could lead to a strong pro-cryptocurrency presence in the national parliament.
Alaska Dispatch News
October 30, 2016
The Pirates, an offshoot of an international movement launched in Sweden, had campaigned on a platform of direct democracy, transparency and turning Iceland into "a digital safe haven, the Switzerland of bits." The party's leader, poet Birgitta ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
October 28, 2016
... taking place on Saturday. The Pirate Party has a shot - at least across the bows. The significance is it would be another boarding party on the Establishment, a good rocking of the boat.
WIRED
October 28, 2016
It wants to make Iceland 'a Switzerland of bits,' free of digital snooping. It has offered Edward Snowden a new place to call home.
NewCo Shift (registration)
October 24, 2016
But it's still a little shocking to learn just how well the Pirate Party is doing as Iceland prepares for elections next weekend (The Washington Post).
NewCo Shift (registration)
October 24, 2016
But it's still a little shocking to learn just how well the Pirate Party is doing as Iceland prepares for elections next weekend (The Washington Post).
Chicago Tribune
October 23, 2016
And to a string of electoral impossibilities that suddenly became reality - including Britain voting for Brexit and Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination - the world may soon add a Pirate Party-led government in Europe. Victory for the Pirates ...
Business Insider
October 18, 2016
With little domestic voter attention on the issue, there has been no indication of how the Independence or left-wing Pirate party, who both lead Alfredsdottir's Progressive Party in the polls, would approach the impasse. Two of the funds, Autonomy and ...
Inverse
October 16, 2016
When the physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN discovered the Higgs boson "God particle," the scientific community threw their version of a party, a series of heady conferences, and Peter Higgs won the Nobel Prize.
Business Insider
October 18, 2016
With little domestic voter attention on the issue, there has been no indication of how the Independence or left-wing Pirate party, who both lead Alfredsdottir's Progressive Party in the polls, would approach the impasse. Two of the funds, Autonomy and ...
Iceland Monitor
September 30, 2016
The idea of an unconditional 'basic income' to all citizens is being actively looked into by Iceland's Pirate Party and is also under discussion in countries across the world, including Finland. "The idea of 'basic income' is for all adults to receive a State payment,ÃÂ ...
Reykjavík Grapevine
September 28, 2016
... is not unique in the world. Countries like Switzerland, Estonia, Ireland, Greece or Ecuador, just to mention few, have been working lately on giving power of decision to citizens, more or less successfully.
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