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Most of us had no clue, in the early days of the internet, that our data was being secretly hunted and captured across all corners of the web, writes Shoshana Zuboff. And most of us did not suspect, even as things evolved, that our data was being collected from apps, smartphones, devices, cameras and sensors. Yet we now know this is in large part... See more
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“What I’m proposing here is ‘e-pimping.’”
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The free-market spirit permeated the sweeping Telecommunications Act of 1996. Promoted with great enthusiasm by President Bill Clinton and his technophilic vice president, Al Gore, the legislation stripped away most of the market strictures that had defined the structure of the media industry since the Communications Act of 1934. It erased the
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Philip Moscovitchhalifaxexaminer.caThe most interesting thing in tech: @Cloudflare has built a new tool that allows publishers to identify, track, and block any AI bots that are scraping their sites without permission. Here Gitesh Gohel and I explain the spreadsheet we've built to decide who to block --- and then we start blocking. It feels like an important moment where the balance... See more
nxthompsonx.comHere lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
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Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine
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The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives
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