New Right To Repair Bill Targets Obnoxious Auto Industry Behavior
It's just no fun being a giant company aspiring to monopolize repair to boost revenues. On both the state and federal level, a...
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Conservatives Want Common Carriage. They're Not Going to Like It.
From calls to break up Big Tech to Florida’s latest anti-tech law, one thing is clear—America’s lawmakers and bureaucrats are...
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We Stand On The Precipice Of World War III, But, Sure, Let's All Talk About The DMCA And 'Standard Technical Measures'
A whole bunch of people wasted Tuesday talking about technical measures. What technical measures, you might ask? The ones vaguely...
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Why It Makes No Sense To Call Websites 'Common Carriers'
There's been an unfortunate movement in the US over the last few years to try to argue that social media should be considered...
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Ohio Files Bizarre And Nonsensical Lawsuit Against Google, Claiming It's A Common Carrier; But What Does That Even Mean?
There's been this bizarre fascination among conservatives that tons of internet companies should be declared "common...
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Turns Out It Was Actually The Missouri Governor's Office Who Was Responsible For The Security Vulnerability Exposing Teacher Data
The story of Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) leaking the Social Security Numbers of hundreds of...
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Clearview Pitch Deck Says It's Aiming For A 100 Billion Image Database, Restarting Sales To The Private Sector
Clearview AI -- the facial recognition tech company so sketchy other facial recognition tech companies don't want to be associated...
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Another Coronavirus Side Effect: In-Home Surveillance By Remote Workers' Employers
Well, it took a pandemic to normalize domestic surveillance by [checks notes] employers. Not sure if this is the dystopia we needed or...
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Apple Finally Defeats Dumb Diverse Emoji Lawsuit One Year Later
Roughly a year ago, we discussed a wildly silly lawsuit brought against Apple by a company called Cub Club and an individual, Katrina...
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Comcast/NBC Ignores Lessons From The Cord Cutting Age, Buries Olympics Under An Ocean Of Annoying Advertising
It's becoming abundantly clear that the lessons of the cord cutting age are not sinking in at Comcast/NBC Universal headquarters...
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