Hannah Frishberg reports: “Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires.” Thus begins Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger’s “Declaration of Digital Independence,” a new manifesto of sorts advocating for the decentralization of “Big Social Media.” He is asking for digital dissenters to sign it — and strike. In a separate [Read More…]
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: “Whenever we make a call, go to work, search the web, pay with our credit card, we generate data. While de-identification might have worked in the past, it doesn’t really scale to the type of large-scale datasets being collected today.” It turns out that ” [Read More…]
Amy Biolchini reports: The Michigan State Police are trying to help bring closure to families who have loved ones that are still missing. This Friday, June 14, the police are hosting a free event at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing for the families of missing people. From noon to 5 p.m. [Read More…]
The New York Times Editorial Board has an editorial this weekend that begins: In the past year, Congress has been happy to drag tech C.E.O.s into hearings and question them about how they vacuum up and exploit personal information about their users. But so far those hearings haven’t amounted to [Read More…]