Tag Archives: Privacy

Resistance to Google and its spying may be going mainstream. Well, at least people outside of tech are talking about it and taking action. For some time, a small group of noisy people have been shouting about Google’s relentless spying … Continue reading →

Over at boingboing, Cory Doctorow has an excellent essay on adversarial interoperability, or as he puts it, How about nah? The central theme of the piece is the idea that Web sites are offering a one sided deal: “Let us … Continue reading →

Last Saturday, I wrote about the UK ISP trade group that decided to nominate Mozilla for the annual Internet Villain award for the crime of making DNS lookup safer and more secure. Of course, it also made it harder for … Continue reading →

Last year I wrote about Matthew Green’s post on why he was giving up the Chrome browser despite being a user for many years. The TL;DR was that Google’s decision to surreptitiously log the browser into Google when you used … Continue reading →

Remember Judge James Orenstein? He’s the federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York who refused the FBI’s request to order Apple to help them break into an iPhone. I found his decision particularly interesting because the facts … Continue reading →

The Spanish Soccer League, La Liga, licenses the right to display its games. It’s very aggressive about enforcing that licensing especially in venues like bars where fans naturally gather to watch the games. The situation is much different here in … Continue reading →