Overview
Our interview is with Kevin Roose,
author of Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of
Automation debunks most of the comforting stories we use to
anaesthetize ourselves to the danger that artificial intelligence
and digitization poses to our jobs. Luckily, he also offers some
practical and very personal ideas for how to avoid being caught in
the oncoming robot apocalypse.
In the news roundup, Dmitri Alperovitch and I take a few moments to
honor Dan Kaminsky, an extraordinary internet
security and even more extraordinarily decent man. He died too
young, at 42, as Nicole Perlroth demonstrates in one of her
They used to say that a conservative was a liberal who d
been mugged. Today s version is that a conservative who s
comfortable with business regulation is a conservative who s
been muzzled by Silicon Valley. David
Kris kicks off this topic by introducing Justice Thomas s
opinion in a case over Trump s authority to block users he
didn t like. The case was made thoroughly moot by both
the election and Twitter s blocking of Trump, but Justice
Thomas wrote separately to muse on the ways in which
Twitter s authority to block users could be regulated by
treating the company as a common carrier or public accommodation.
Our interview is with Mark Montgomery and John Costello, both staff to the Cyberspace
Solarium Commission. The Commission, which issued its main report more than a year ago, is swinging
through the pitch, following up with new white papers, draft legislative language, and enthusiastic
advocacy for its recommendations in Congress, many of which were
adopted last year. That makes it the most successful of the many
cybersecurity commissions that have come and gone in Washington.
And it s not done yet. Mark and John review several of the most
important legislative proposals the Commission will be following
this year. I don t agree with all of them, but they are all
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May 2, 2021
A “social casino” is an app or website where an individual can play standard casino games online, using real money for more chances to play without the chance to win money or a prize. Recently, social casinos have faced increased scrutiny with seemingly more litigation and attention especially around targeting customers.
Google, Apple, and Facebook have each faced litigation regarding social casinos, particularly as the platforms hosting the games and processing player payments. However, some game developers, such as Zynga, have also faced litigation for their online gambling games. Google was specifically sued for carrying Zynga’s gambling games.
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