Comcast Continues To Bleed Olympics Viewers After Years Of Bumbling
NBC (now Comcast NBC Universal) has enjoyed the rights to broadcast the US Olympics since 1998. In 2011, the company paid $4.4 billion...
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As Expected, Trump's Social Network Is Rapidly Banning Users It Doesn't Like, Without Telling Them Why
Earlier this week we took a look at Donald Trump and Devin Nunes' Truth Social's terms of service, noting that they -- despite...
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San Francisco Cops Are Running Rape Victims' DNA Through Criminal Databases Because What Even The Fuck
There are things people expect the government to do. And then there are the things the government actually does. The government assumes...
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Ron Wyden: It's Time To Kill The Third Party Doctrine And Go Back To Respecting Privacy
For years, we've written about the third party doctrine and its troubling implications for the 4th Amendment and your privacy --...
United States Riley Wurie Ron Wyden Mike Masnick Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court While The Supreme Court
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Daily Deal: The Complete 2022 Java Coder Bundle
The Complete 2022 Java Coder Bundle has 9 courses to help you kick-start your Java learning, providing you with the key concepts...
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Cops Use Stingray To ALMOST Track Down Suspected Fast Food Thief
Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, secured through Homeland Security grants, to buy repurposed military technology...
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The Real Scandal: Not That The NSA Broke The Law In Vast Spying, But That It Probably Didn't
There's a good point being raised by a bunch of people lately in reaction to the details of the NSA surveillance revelations from...
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Former Employees Say Mossad Members Dropped By NSO Officers To Run Off-The-Books Phone Hacks
Oh, NSO Group, is there anything you won't do? (And then clumsily deny later?). If I were the type to sigh about such things, I...
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EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications In Which An AI Was Designated As The Inventor
We've written a bunch about why AI generated artwork should not (and need not) have any copyright at all. The law says that...
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Monkey Selfie Case Reaches Settlement -- But The Parties Want To Delete Ruling Saying Monkeys Can't Hold Copyright
For many years now, we've been covering the sometimes odd/sometimes dopey case of the monkey selfie and the various disputes over...
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