The Role of Default Settings in Online Searches: Challenging Google Dominance
A meaningful level of onsumers will opt out of the default setting of Google as their search engine, particularly if prompted early and often
Read more...A meaningful level of onsumers will opt out of the default setting of Google as their search engine, particularly if prompted early and often
Read more...Consumer-facing neurotechnology could make computers more accessible — and pose a new kind of threat to data privacy.
Read more...New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.
Read more...From fintech to food systems to social media, the State of Big Tech offers a blueprint for the 99% to break privatized status-quo enclosures.
Read more...Gambling in Casablanca! Spying in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the COP27 conference! Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Is Twitter really a hellscape of hate and bigotry? And what will happen to Twitter now that Musk has taken it over?
Read more...States and localities across the US continue to pass laws criminalizing “public camping” and other draconian crackdowns on the increasing number of homeless people in the country.
Read more...Regulators largely ignore the cloud services industry, despite high concentration, lack of transparency, and potential for predation.
Read more...Michael Hudson has a wide-ranging talk with Ralph Nader.
Read more...It’s time for “Show me the documents” in the fight over records Trump had at Mar a Lago and the Feds took back, alleging serious misconduct
Read more...A new data privacy law is in the works, at least in part due to more stringent rules in Europe. But could it have unintended side effects?
Read more...Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
Read more...The US is really really out to heat things up with China…
Read more...To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.
Read more...One day after Elon Musk took over Twitter, a top European regulator gave the world’s richest man a “reality check” about how they will respond if he loosens the platform’s content moderation policies.
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