This week's net.wars, "Blown" calls back to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film "Blow-Up" while reading the news of people-identifying smart glasses and blocked autonomous vehicles in SF: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/10/04/b...
“This is a public place. Everyone has the right to be left in peace,” Jane (Vanessa Redgrave) tells Thomas (David Hemmings), whom she’s just spotted photographing her with her lover in the 1966 film B...
This week's net.wars, "Pass the password", generally approves of NIST's proposed new rules for passwords, which accept that times and threat models have changed: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/09/27/p...
So this week I had to provide a new password for an online banking account. This is always fraught, even if you use a password manager. Half the time whatever you pick fails the site’s (often hidden) ...
This week's net.wars, "This perfect day", wonders what happens to the data as 23andMe craters and as Larry Ellison embraces all-AI all-surveillance all-the-time: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/09/20/t...
To anyone remembering the excitement over DNA testing just a few years ago, this week’s news about 23andMe comes as a surprise. At CNN, Allison Morrow reports that all seven board members have resigne...
This week's net.wars, "The brittle state", embraces @openrightsgroup.bsky.socialnetwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/09/13/t...
We’re now almost a year on from Rishi Sunak’s AI Summit, which failed to accomplish any of its most likely goals: cement his position as the UK’s prime minister; establish the UK as a world leader in ...
I had this argument with a friend who'd just visited there! She seemed to see nothing but drug dealers and homeless people even though I walked the same streets a few weeks later and it looked fine.
He didn't demand it. I offered because he was going to have to spend something like eight hours at Heathrow, and I feel bad for any human who has to do that.
RIP Tony Bunyan, co-founder of Statewatch: www.statewatch.org/news/2024/se...
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The techgrumps are back from a busy summer holiday, straight into the nexus of tech news. The grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, Wendy Grossman, Andy Piper and Ryan Alexander. As th...
This week's net.wars, "Beware the duck", goes to #gikiinetwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/09/06/b...
Once upon a time, “convergence” was a buzzword. That was back in the days when audio was on stereo systems, television was on a TV, and “communications” happened on phones that weren’t computers. The ...
This week's net.wars, "Sectioned", finds legal cases bringing flashbacks to the origins of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/08/30/s...@sbisson.com )
Social media seems to be having a late-1990s moment, raising flashbacks to the origins of platform liability and the passage of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (1996). It’s worth making ...