Freedom Index#Technology
Just a couple weeks ago, the European Commission put out its plan for “European tech sovereignty.” It’s not surprising that…
from the free-to-go-but-not-free-of-surveillance dept Here’s something no one but cops and the tech firms that love cops wanted: an ALPR…
from the elon-is-a-walking-talking-chilling-effect dept We’ve been pointing out for years that the supposedly “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is one…
from the seems-bad dept In theory, there’s a way to build a prediction market that actually provides valuable insight on…
from the dogma-isn’t-journalism dept I recognize that when we talk about AI generally, and specifically AI in the gaming industry,…
from the stop-believing-the-copyright-industry’s-lies dept Afew weeks ago, Walled Culture wrote about Hadopi, France’s infamous copyright enforcement mechanism. The so-called “graduated response”…
from the the-ftc-hates-trans-rights dept Last week the FTC decided to file an obviously censorial, legally baseless lawsuit against an educational…
from the whoops-we-killed-grandma dept For a long time organizations like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon…
from the building-state-TV dept CNN brass have been waiting to get federal approval of their problematic $111 billion merger with…
from the America-isn’t-your-playset dept What’s most disturbing about Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order isn’t its…
This Week in 2016 FBI Won’t Tell Me How Much It Paid To Break Into Syed Farook’s iPhone, Saying It…
from the it-only-gets-worse dept A couple weeks ago I wrote 6,000 words about the Reckless Ben/Bricks & Minifigs LEGO mess…