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.
Read more...We are glad to see confirmation that Gonzalo Lira is alive and are reposting his short-lived but important Bucha video.
Read more...Lee Camp calls out the New York Times’ many acts of malpractice, including the smearing of real journalists like Ben Norton.
Read more...Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to rein in Big Tech. But that won’t do much to protect user privacy.
Read more...Why the implementation of Canada’s Emergencies Act is a terrible precedent.
Read more...Bosch brings you Stasi at home….and the worst is, too many people will happily pay for more surveillance.
Read more...The EARN IT Act would authorize a massive new private surveillance system, rolling back important privacy and security features
Read more...The European Court of Justice has just dealt a major blow to Facebook’s approach to users’ data.
Read more...In response to data protection laws in California and Europe, as well as big Tech policy changes, customers are increasing their efforts to collect their customers’ personal data.
Read more...Some Facebook internal chats reveal its censorship, um, moderation to be a hot mess.
Read more...Apple abandons its pretense of caring about user privacy and has now joined arms with the police. Be warned.
Read more...The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Read more...Yves here. Two things about increased automation frost me. One is its stealth or main purpose as forcing planned obsolescence. So irrespective of the impact on job/labor content, any savings won’t necessarily accrue to users. Two is automation/AI serving as an excuse to shift costs and tasks onto consumers. How many times do customer service […]
Read more...An investigation revealing abuse of NSO Group’s Pegasus malware led Snowden to declare: “This is an industry that should not exist.”
Read more...Trump is back for another misguided, erm, quixotic fight. Could he still score points?
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