They've proposed new rules limiting trade between brokers and bureaux under the #FairCreditReportingAct, putting strict restrictions on the transfer of information between them:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/tech/privacy-rules-data-brokers/index.html

As @KarlBode writes for #Techdirt, this is long overdue and meaningful. Remember all the handwriting and chest-thumping about #Tiktok stealthing Americans' data to the #Chinese military? China doesn't need Tiktok to get that data - it can buy it from data-brokers. For *peanuts*.

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Writing for #Techdirt, @KarlBode runs down a partial list of all the unbelievably terrible business decisions Verizon has made without losing investor confidence or going under, in a kind of tribute to Keynes's maxim:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/10/verizon-fails-again-shutters-attempted-zoom-alternative-bluejeans-after-paying-400-million-for-it/

Remember #Go90, the "dud" streaming service launched in 2015 and shuttered in 2018? You probably don't, and neither (apparently) do Verizon's shareholders, who lost *$1.2 billion* on this folly:

https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/02/verizons-sad-attempt-to-woo-millennials-falls-flat-face/

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I think #Chekov said something to the effect of, you can't show the #audience a #performative, #senseless act of #parliament in Act One unless the #government can shoot itself in the foot with it in Act Three.

#C18 #FootGun #AntonChekov #BigTech #DinosaurMedia #TechDirt #LinkTax

@techdirt @CrazyITGuy42

‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Hides Effective Political Ad That Calls Out GOP

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/04/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-hides-effective-political-ad-that-calls-out-gop/

#TechDirt #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech #PoliticalAd #GOP #HiddenAd #Politics #News

Este #artículo es realmente esclarecedor acerca de la pretensión de #Google de incluir un sistema de #DRM en la #Web llamado Web Environment Integrity.
#techdirt #tecnología #wei #leyendo
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/googles-plan-to-drm-the-web-goes-against-everything-google-once-stood-for/

“When they talked by phone, Mr. #Zuckerberg asked Mr. #Masnick what Facebook was doing wrong. Given his distaste for powerful tech companies that exercise too much control over people’s internet experience, Mr. Masnick suggested that Mr. Zuckerberg consider #decentralizing.”

Techdirt from the late 90’s making a dent on the Internet

#techdirt / #internet / #platform vs #protocols <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/technology/mike-masnick-techdirt-internet-future.html>

Whoa.... I follow a Mastodon celebrity @mmasnick in the Sunday New York Times
#nytimes #techdirt

#Techdirt Has Been Deleted From #Bing And #DuckDuckGo :duckduckgo:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/techdirt-has-been-deleted-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/

#Techdirt removed from #DuckDuckGo and #Bing search results

https://herrmann.tech/en/blog/2023/07/27/techdirt-removed-from-duckduckgo-and-bing-search-results.html

This Week In Techdirt History: July 2nd – 8th

Five Years Ago This week in 2018, the latest text of the EU Copyright Directive showed it to be even more disastrous than expected. Thus, its defenders and apologists were busy responding variously with substance-free denial, vague defenses lacking any understanding of the issues, accidental revelations of the true scope of their internet-destroying goals, and [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/08/this-week-in-techdirt-history-july-2nd-8th/

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Part 2: Microsoft Bolsters Sony’s Justification For Withholding Console Info In Court Doc

The ongoing saga that is Microsoft&#8217;s attempt to purchase Activision Blizzard continues! As a brief review of the scoreboard will show: the EU has approved the purchase, the UK&#8217;s CMA has blocked it and Microsoft has appealed that decision, and the lawsuit brought by the FTC in the States is currently in the pretrial phase. [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/07/part-2-microsoft-bolsters-sonys-justification-for-withholding-console-info-in-court-doc/

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NetChoice Challenges Yet Another Ridiculously Bad State Internet Law

NetChoice has been quite busy the last few years suing to stop a wide variety of terrible state laws designed to mess up parts of the internet. It took on Florida’s social media content moderation law and won (twice). It took on Texas’ social media content moderation law and won at the district court, and [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/07/netchoice-challenges-yet-another-ridiculously-bad-state-internet-law/

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Copyright As Harassment: The DMCA Attack On IPFS Gateways

The Internet is amazing, but it’s not perfect. There are many aspects that are unsatisfactory – its protocols are inefficient, and it is far from resilient. The InterPlanetary File System,&#160;created in 2014, aims to address some of these deficiencies.&#160;On its main site&#160;it is described as: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/07/copyright-as-harassment-the-dmca-attack-on-ipfs-gateways/

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We’re Going Down A Very Dangerous Path With AI Regulation, Despite Better Options

It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. The EU (as has been its MO over the last few years) is taking the lead. A few weeks back the EU Parliament passed a draft regulation for AI. There’s [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/07/were-going-down-a-very-dangerous-path-with-ai-regulation-despite-better-options/

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Daily Deal: Scrivener 3

Scrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators, and more. Scrivener won&#8217;t tell you how to write—it simply provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing. Scrivener makes it easy to structure ideas, write a first draft, [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/07/daily-deal-scrivener-3-3/

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Court Rejects Attempt To Blame Amazon For The Purchase Of Product Used For Suicide

There have been a bunch of attempts over the last few years to try to get around Section 230, and to sue various websites under a “negligence” theory under the law, arguing that the online service was somehow negligent in failing to protect a user, and therefore Section 230 shouldn’t apply. Some cases have been [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/07/court-rejects-attempt-to-blame-amazon-for-the-purchase-of-product-used-for-suicide/

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Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning

Learn Spanish, French, Italian, German, and many more languages with Babbel. Developed by over 100 expert linguists, Babbel is helping millions of people speak and understand a new language quickly, and with confidence. After just one month, you will be able to speak about practical topics, such as transportation, dining, shopping, directions, making friends, and [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/06/daily-deal-babbel-language-learning-8/

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In 303 Creative, By Happily Helping One Bigot, SCOTUS (Perhaps Inadvertently) Helped The Larger Fight Against Bigotry

Last week&#8217;s 6-3 decision in the 303 Creative v. Elenis case, with all the conservative justices vindicating a website designer&#8217;s ability to refuse to build a website celebrating gay marriage, may seem at first glance to be a blow to gay rights. And maybe that&#8217;s what some or all of the six justices in the [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/06/in-303-creative-by-happily-helping-one-bigot-scotus-perhaps-inadvertently-helped-the-larger-fight-against-bigotry/

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Top EU Court Advisor Says Technical Standards, Like Laws, Should Not Be Locked Down By Copyright

One of the most pernicious ideas that copyright maximalism has spread is that preventing people from freely accessing creative material is not just a good thing to do, but should be the natural state of affairs. This has made questioning whether copyright is really the best way to support artists and promote creativity hard. Against [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/05/top-eu-court-advisor-says-technical-standards-like-laws-should-not-be-locked-down-by-copyright/

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The FTC’s Surprisingly Weak Case Against Amazon

Way back in 2005 I wrote about the launch of Amazon Prime, talking about the trade offs of joining this “shipping club” as I called it then. If you look at that post now, it has nearly 600 comments. However, the first comment didn’t even get added until over a year after I posted the [&#8230;]
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/05/the-ftcs-surprisingly-weak-case-against-amazon/

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