Showing posts with label surveillance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surveillance. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2024

National Sovereignty and Free Expression

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the tension between the rights of nations to "establish the rule of law" and indi...
Thursday, October 03, 2024

When the Proper Amount of Something Is Zero

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Cory Doctorow on DRM, conflicts of interest, "bricking," the undermining of consumer privacy, collection of surveillance data, ide...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

When Do Conspiracy Theorists Make Sense?

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Cory Doctorow's column in the May issue of LOCUS discusses what we'd probably think of as paranoid conspiracy theorists, vehemently ...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

APP Your Peril

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Can an app wreck your life? Apparently, so. From Electronic Freedom Foundation to RedState, dark cautionary tales abound. At bottom, it is d...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Digital Feudalism

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In Cory Doctorow's early January LOCUS column, he discusses in considerable technical depth the surveillance and privacy (or anti-privac...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Taking Names

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As long as a former President is deceased, and also his widow (if applicable), the President's name can be trademarked as long as it is...
Thursday, March 08, 2018

Pro-Tech and Anti-Tech

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Cory Doctorow's current LOCUS essay is titled "Let's Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech": Demanding Better from Te...
Thursday, February 01, 2018

Bird Brains

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Following up last week's post on animal intelligence, I want to suggest that you pick up a copy of the February NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. It ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

The Musical Trojan Horse

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Imagine what would happen if the sound system in Foxborough this evening were to be hacked by hippies, who installed a Spotify "Chill...