Tech & Big Tech

EFF and ARTICLE 19 have submitted joint comments to the European Commission on draft guidelines for the Digital Services Act’s…

from the poof-it’s-gone dept In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which…

from the shadow-court dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In its term that ended last October,…

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could…

Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor…

from the the-censorship-industrial-complex? dept Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people…

The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by…

from the somehow-every-DOGE-bro-missed-this-guy dept Donald Trump believes that being elected president means he should never be challenged, never be asked…

from the deregulatory-dysfunction dept In late 2024 the Biden FTC under Lina Khan passed new “click to cancel” rules that…

from the shitshow dept Are you currently pooping yourself uncontrollably and want to know why? Well, the CDC made that…

from the taking-my-ball-and-going-home dept Paramount is now threatening California regulators that they’ll be taking their ball and going home (to…

One of the best bulwarks against monopoly is interoperability—that is making a new product or service work with an existing…