“The egregious acts by the outgoing Trump Justice Department, and the apparent doubling down on them during the Biden administration, should alarm all Americans, regardless of political persuasion.”
Read more...Apple is now promising to give users more control over who gets their data. But will they make it more seductive to give it away?
Read more...Voice profiling….a brave new world of business shysterdom?
Read more...Anti-Big-Tech sentiment has hit the point where it’s not crazy to hope for some recovery of digital privacy.
Read more...Are Facebook and Google the new ‘public square’? Or are they publishers swiping content from others?
Read more...In the real world, the one we’re in now, the Department of Pre-Crime will not be this much fun. Nor will the good guys win.
Read more...Neil Weinberg and David Voreacos published an in-depth account at Bloomberg of how private equity baron Roger Smith escaped being indicted for criminal tax fraud despite having concealed over $200 million in income. The very short version is that Smith and his allies got to Attorney General William Barr, both through Barr’s former firm Kirkland […]
Read more...Tim Berners-Lee endorses data sovereignty, to give individuals the power to control their own data, to counter big tech’s overreach.
Read more...“What to do about tech platforms” has fixated on Section 230, when more should be done.
Read more...Defense Intelligence Agency skirts constitutional warrant requirements by buying location data from data brokers.
Read more...Physical cash should still have an important — albeit diminished — role to play in the economy of the future.
Read more...No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
Read more...Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far the anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq.
Read more...Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Read more...A shaggy dog story, and a request for reader ideas on how to escape unreasonable requests for personal information.
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