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Senate Approves Section 702 Reauthorization, Keeps Only the Bad Stuff
Legal Issues The government had a few years to sort this out, but as usual, the...
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Once Again, ExTwitter Makes Links Dangerous
(Mis)Uses of Technology Just a few weeks ago, we pointed out that the purpose of a...
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Charter Lobbyists Sneak Language into NY Bill to Hamstring Community Broadband
Broadband Lobbyists for Charter Communications (Spectrum) have snuck some sneaky language into New York State’s latest...
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CA Senator Pushes Bill to Remove Anonymity from Anyone Who Is Influential Online
Free Speech What the fuck is wrong with state lawmakers? It seems that across the country,...
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Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in Social Media, by Far
(Mis)Uses of Technology These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons....
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Grandmother Awarded Nearly $4M over Faulty 'Find My Phone' Ping Based Swat Raid
Legal Issues In January 2022, 77-year-old Ruby Johnson’s house was raided by the Denver Police Department....
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Auto, Tech Industries Falsely Claim 'Right to Repair' National Security Threat
Overhype “Right to repair” reform (making it easier and more affordable to repair things you buy)...
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Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Disbarred
Remember Richard Liebowitz? The lawyer who was not very good at his job but really dove...
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Italy's Piracy Shield Blocks Innocent Web Sites and Makes It Hard to Appeal
Copyright Italy’s newly-installed Piracy Shield system, put in place by the country’s national telecoms regulator, Autorità...
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The Disinformation Campaign Has Destroyed the Ability to Combat Disinformation
Rumors, Conspiracies, etc. We already covered the oral arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri case earlier...
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GM, LexisNexis Sued for Sale of Driver Behavior Data to Insurers
Privacy Last week the New York Times published a story confirming what everybody assumed was already...
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As We Debate TikTok, We See CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media Against Their Gov
Failures You know that line, “every accusation is a confession?” For no reason at all, that’s...
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Oregon Passes Right to Repair Law Apple Lobbied to Kill
Policy Oregon has officially become the seventh state (behind New York, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maine, and...
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Warner Bros. Discovery Disappears Games People Already Purchased
Failures And here we go again. It’s time for another abject lesson in how you don’t...
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Auto Makers Are Selling Data on Your Driving Habits to Your Insurer
Privacy Last September, Mozilla came out with a privacy study indicating that the auto industry was...
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5th Circuit Declares Age Verification Perfectly Fine Under the First Amendment
Free Speech Can the 5th Circuit ever do anything not crazy? You may recall that Texas,...
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TikTok Ban Doesn't Do Much If We Don't Regulate Data Brokers, Pass a Privacy Law
Overhype While it seemed like our national policy hysteria over TikTok had waned slightly in 2024,...
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HP Tries Desperately to Make 'Printer as a Subscription' a Thing
(Mis)Uses of Technology When last we checked in with Hewlett Packard (HP), the company had just...
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Apple EU Antitrust Protest a Weird Thing to Do Just as the DMA Is Taking Effect
Policy It’s no secret that I’m often skeptical of antitrust actions, many of which feel like...
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Meta Has Had Enough of Australia's Link Tax Shakedown; Will Not Renew Any Deals
Journalism It appears that Meta is serious about no longer bribing news orgs to keep corrupt...
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FTC to Protect Data of 1.6B People Tracked by Now-Bankrupt Data Broker
Privacy There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or...
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We Can't Have Serious Discussions About Section 230 If People Misrepresent It
Failures At the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about Florida and Texas’ social media content moderation laws,...
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Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public?
(Mis)Uses of Technology We’ve noted for decades how, despite all the political lip service paid toward...
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Nevada Looks to Temporarily Restrain Meta from Using End-to-End Encryption
Legal Issues There have been plenty of silly lawsuits against tech companies over the last few...