Trump Admin Freaks Out Over Report Amazon Planned To Be Transparent About...
Okay, there’s a lot to unpack in this story, so hang with me here. For the past month or so, Americans and American businesses have been stuck in tariff hell. Blanket and additional tariffs issued via...
View ArticleGood News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature...
Two years ago, Techdirt wrote about Plan S, an initiative from top research funders that requires all work they support to be published as open access. It’s one of the most important moves to get...
View ArticleWeaponizing The GDPR: Gamers Want To Use It To Flood Blizzard With Requests...
We live in such fascinating times. We’ve had some posts concerning people getting (rightly) angry about Blizzard banning a top player who supported the protests in Hong Kong. In order to make the...
View ArticleVerizon Confirms That Yes, 5G Will Cost You Extra
By now we’ve established that while fifth-generation (5G) wireless will result in faster, more resilient networks, the technology has been over-hyped to an almost nauseating degree. Yes, faster, lower...
View ArticleWireless Carriers Won't Comment On 5G's Most Important Question: How Much...
We’ve noted a few times that while fifth-generation wireless (5G) will certainly improve the speed, reliability, and latency of existing networks, it’s being pretty painfully overhyped by hardware...
View ArticleVerizon Insists Higher Phone Upgrades Are Being Used To Enhance The Network...
Within Karl Bode’s post about Verizon’s insistence that all of the people who continue to use grandfathered unlimited data plans don’t actually exist was a brief note about the company’s decision to...
View ArticleThree Strikes System In Australia 'Too Costly' For Industry; Seems Piracy Not...
It was evident when the “three strikes” or “graduated response” was first proposed in France back in 2009 that it was a really bad idea. After all, in its crudest form, it cuts people off from what...
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Senator John McCain Weighs In On 'Going Dark' Debate — Insists That He...
Who knew that Senator John McCain understood encryption better than actual cryptographers? Late last week, he wrote an op-ed for Bloomberg View, in which he trots out all the usual talking points on...
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100 Million Pennies For Your Thoughts? DEA Hands MuckRock A $1.4 Million...
The EFF recently kicked off a contest for the “most outrageous response to a Freedom of Information Act request” and we already have a frontrunner for the first inaugural “Foilie.” MuckRock’s loose...
View ArticleResearch Shows Mass Surveillance Fails 'Drastically' In Striking Balance...
One of the many problems with the debate on mass surveillance is that it is largely driven by emotions, on both sides. Facts are few and far between — much is secret, for obvious reasons — which makes...
View ArticleReport Says Backlash From NSA's Surveillance Programs Will Cost Private...
The Open Technology Institute has put together a thorough paper detailing the many adverse effects the NSA disclosures have had, both on American businesses inside and outside of the tech sector, as...
View ArticleGood News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature...
Two years ago, Techdirt wrote about Plan S, an initiative from top research funders that requires all work they support to be published as open access. It's one of the most important moves to get...
View ArticleWeaponizing The GDPR: Gamers Want To Use It To Flood Blizzard With Requests...
We live in such fascinating times. We've had some posts concerning people getting (rightly) angry about Blizzard banning a top player who supported the protests in Hong Kong. In order to make the...
View ArticleVerizon Confirms That Yes, 5G Will Cost You Extra
By now we've established that while fifth-generation (5G) wireless will result in faster, more resilient networks, the technology has been over-hyped to an almost nauseating degree. Yes, faster, lower...
View ArticleWireless Carriers Won't Comment On 5G's Most Important Question: How Much...
We've noted a few times that while fifth-generation wireless (5G) will certainly improve the speed, reliability, and latency of existing networks, it's being pretty painfully overhyped by hardware...
View ArticleVerizon Charging You More, As Bandwidth Costs Them Less
As we just recently discussed, broadband providers appear to finally be willing to give up their pretend need for data caps due to the pretend costs of delivering service. The story they told...
View ArticleAT&T Accidentally Reveals That It Doesn't Need T-Mobile At All
One of the key talking points from AT&T in support of the T-Mobile merger is that it "needs" T-Mobile's spectrum in order to expand its planned 4G/LTE networks to cover 97% of the population. And,...
View ArticleAre IT Failures Costing $6.2 Trillion Per Year?
I'm always quite skeptical about huge numbers that come out of studies, such as the "losses" claimed by the entertainment industry due to piracy. So I was pretty skeptical of a story (found via...
View ArticleVerizon Insists Higher Phone Upgrades Are Being Used To Enhance The Network...
Within Karl Bode's post about Verizon's insistence that all of the people who continue to use grandfathered unlimited data plans don't actually exist was a brief note about the company's decision to...
View ArticleThree Strikes System In Australia 'Too Costly' For Industry; Seems Piracy Not...
It was evident when the "three strikes" or "graduated response" was first proposed in France back in 2009 that it was a really bad idea. After all, in its crudest form, it cuts people off from what...
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