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Wendy M. Grossman

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net.wars Fridays. I interact on Mastodon: @[email protected]. Freelance writer. Founder @theskepticmag, Fellow @skeptinquirer, A/C @openrightsgroup.

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This week's net.wars, "What's next", collates predictions for the coming few years, reviews two years of Musk-owned Twitter, and says all hail The Onion: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/15/wha…


This week's net.wars, "Digital distrust", goes to the #UKIGF and connects AI governance to digital exclusion: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/08/dig…


This week's net.wars, "The master switch" sees billionaires exerting their supreme control over newspapers and hopes the Internet can still provide a counterweight: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/01/the…


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Reminder: If you voted early, check your state’s election website to verify that your vote was received. This is always important, but especially this year with MAGA torching mailboxes and shit.


This week's net.wars, "Follow the business models", deplores smart-data collection-with everything, visits Ithaca NY to play folk music, and ponders the upcoming UK data bill and UN cybercrime treaty: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/10/25/fol…


This week's net.wars, "Choice", ponders the impact of the looming US presidential election on women's health: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/10/18/cho…


This week's net.wars, "A hole is a hole", says China's use of the interception system to spy on the US proves the bad ideaness of backdoors in security systems; notes that .io will vanish with the Chagos Islands; and marvels at all the WordPress angst: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/10/11/a-h…


My review of @parmy 's new book on the race to AI, Supremacy: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/10/09/rev…


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/blo…


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/pas…


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/thi…


This week's net.wars, "The brittle state", embraces @openrightsgroup's and @the3million's campaign against eVisas. Are we so dumb that we really think computers are always right? netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/09/13/the…


This week's net.wars, "Beware the duck", goes to #gikii 2024 and finds blurred boundaries everywhere in futurelaw: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/09/06/bew…


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/sec…


This week's net.wars, "A three-hour tour", opposes the Vodafone-3 merger, notes Mar Hicks and David Gray Widder on the damage left behind as the AI bubble deflates, marvels at using DNA testing for citizenship, says RIP to Mike Lynch: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/08/23/a-t…


This week's net.wars, "The fear factor", warns against too-hasty moves to respond to the UK riots by expanding the Online Safety Acc and rushing to install live facial recognition: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/08/16/the…


This week's net.wars, "Gather ye lawsuits while ye may"...guess who sues the world: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/08/09/gat…


This week's net.wars, "Crowdstricken", ponders how to make a technologically-mediated world with hidden points of failure less brittle: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/08/02/cro…


This week's net.wars, "Boxed up", mulls Google's decision to keep third-party cookies. Instead of this tracking or that tracking, can't we have *no* tracking? netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/07/26/box…


This week's net.wars, "20 comedians walk into a bar...", notes single points of failure in today's crashes; visits 3 bits of AI bubble, ponders Tony Blair's out-of-touch persistent obsession with ID cards; and hails Starmer's commitment to human rights: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/07/19/twe…


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