Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that lets users manage, own, and profit from their data, the first such nationwide initiative in the world
Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S-based initiatives. Bluesky: @ericgoldman . Mastodon: @Khrys@mamot.fr . X: @restofworld ...
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/ b... Tim Karr / @timkarr.bsky.social : Where one of the bigger threats to free speech under the coming Trump admin, says the private entity NewsGuard “is under investigati...
California's State Senate passes an online safety bill requiring services to increase protections for users under 18; Governor Newsom must approve the bill
see below — partied?) extensively with good ole Harvey Weinstein: https://twitter.com/... @accountabletech : BREAKING: The California State Senate has passed the #CAKidsCode. This is a huge step forwa...
A dad who sent Android photos of his baby's groin to a doctor says Google disabled his account and police probed him after Google flagged the photos as CSAM
Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious. Tweets: @hunterwalk , @karanssh , @matthew_d_green , @ericgoldman...
The omnibus funding bill Congress passed contains the controversial CASE Act, introduces a small claims copyright system, and may increase copyright trolling
and threaten Internet users with huge fines? https://www.fightforthefuture.org/ ... Eric Goldman / @ericgoldman : Just to put things in perspective, you're going to need 50 stimulus checks to cover th...
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal and some PE firms approached Disney earlier this year about acquiring Hulu or operating it as a partnership, but were rebuffed
For Now Tweets: @technology : While Disney was identifying streaming as its top priority, it was second guessing just how much it wanted to invest in one of its primary platforms: Hulu https://www.blo...
Disney says it plans to launch a general entertainment streaming platform internationally in 2021 under its Star brand, with content from ABC, FX, and more
Julia Alexander / The Verge : Tweets: @theericgoldman and @loudmouthjulia See also Mediagazer Tweets: Eric Goldman / @theericgoldman : I had kept expecting (because Disney kept saying!) that Hulu wou...
Interview with Facebook's Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher, an ex-DOJ prosecutor, who focuses on shutting down foreign interference on Facebook
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney : Tweets: @ericgoldman Tweets: Eric Goldman / @ericgoldman : It was a huge failure that Facebook & other social media services didn't anticipate Russian election hacking. ...