Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises
[ad_1] Deere’s new agreement states that it will ensure that farmers and independent repair shops can subscribe to or buy tools, software, and documentation from the company or its authorized…
Algorithms Need Management Training, Too
[ad_1] The European Union is expected to finalize the Platform Work Directive, its new legislation to regulate digital labor platforms, this month. This is the first law proposed at the European…
3 Ways to Tame ChatGPT
[ad_1] This year, we’ve seen the introduction of powerful generative AI systems that have the ability to create images and text on demand. At the same time, regulators are on…
Section 230’s Fate Belongs With Congress—Not the US Supreme Court
[ad_1] In the nearly 27 years since Congress passed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, courts have broadly interpreted it to protect online communities for being legally responsible for…
The US Needs to Recognize Intimate Privacy as a Civil Right
[ad_1] Underlying Bedoya’s argument—and that of James in the Jack’d case—are the antidiscrimination principles governing modern civil rights laws. Under state and federal law, powerful entities, both public and private,…
How to Advocate for Data Privacy and Users’ Rights
[ad_1] Your Facebook is no longer a naked-to-the-public firehose of information about your family and social life. Your mobile phone is as do-not-track as you’re able to function under. You…
Bogus Fears of Censorship Could Spell the End of Content Moderation
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Glad to hear from Joe Biden that the pandemic is over. But who’s going to tell the coronavirus? The Plain View The linguist George Lakoff is famous…
The End of Roe Will Spark a Digital Civil War
[ad_1] Over the past 10 years, the primary threats to US internet freedom have come from abroad, as countries like China, Russia, and India have erected barriers to the flow…
The Woman Who Became a Company Has Lessons for a Post-Roe World
[ad_1] In 2014, Jennifer Lyn Morone decided to protect her data in the only way she could as an individual: She incorporated herself. Jennifer Lyn Morone Inc. operates as a…
The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers
[ad_1] On August 29, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had filed a landmark lawsuit against data broker Kochava for “selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices”…
To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up
[ad_1] There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We need to fix technology” and “We need to fix…
Tim Wu, Biden’s Anti-Big Tech Adviser, Has Been Living the Dream
[ad_1] Wu even suggests that we’ve turned a corner in stemming Big Tech’s dominance. “Ten years ago or whenever, they were able to get away with acquiring potential competitors, or…