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The 17 years since the Microsoft antitrust case taught us that regulation can spur innovation
In June of 2000, a judge in the US district court for the District of Columbia ruled that Microsoft should be broken up into two separate units—one for Microsoft’s operating system and another for its software products. In June of 2001, an appeals court disagreed. The Microsoft case set a precedent for not breaking up big tech companies, but also prohibited Microsoft from tying Internet Explorer to Windows.
Facial recognition is here to stay. And we should all probably accept it (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 13:51The genius of GDPR is that it forces companies to police each other (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 14:11Facebook Founder Chris Hughes Says Facebook Should Pay Us For Our Data (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 15:11Facebook’s problems can be solved with design (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/30/2018 - 15:05Net neutrality officially dies any day now. It may get a second life.
Network neutrality is dead. The rules governing today’s internet, known as the 2015 Open Internet Order, will be lifted any day now. It will mark the first time the US has gone without some form of net neutrality since the 1990s. What happens to net neutrality now? Despite the Federal Communications Commission giving internet providers free reign, immediate changes aren’t likely.
Facebook is changing the way it handles your data—here’s how (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/05/2018 - 12:26Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are fighting over whether we rule technology—or it rules us (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 13:30Forget fixing NAFTA. Give rural Americans broadband internet and clean water
US negotiators will push for a series of protectionist measures at negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement the week of Feb 26. The Rust Belt needs a better connection to the rest of the world. To make it in the digital economy, the first step is to plug in. Nearly 40 percent of residents in the rural US remain without access to broadband.