Swedish Pirate Party launches as ISP // #privacy

Posted on | July 22, 2010 | No Comments

The Swedish Pirate Party once again draws headlines (in a recent post here, I also mentioned how they’ve started hosting The Pirate Bay website). This time the gung-ho party announce how they will launch as ISP (Internet Service Provider) in order to offer a service that is completely safe and private for users – by keeping “no logs of subscriber activity and thus to provide no data to law enforcement or private corporations.” To begin with, the service will only be available to a small number of households in the city of Lund, Sweden, but if successful, plans to expand are already in place.

Read about the story on Torrentfreak, Slashdot or Boing Boing.

On a sub note, discussions on the future emergence of more small scale ISPs as a response to draconian legislative initiatives have already spawned. Very interesting indeed.

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