privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow
Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser Cory Doctorow
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Debullshitifying the Right to Repair excuses Apple sent to Congress Cory Doctorow
movies DoJ to scrap the Paramount antitrust rule that prohibits movie studios from buying or strong-arming movie theaters Cory Doctorow
corruption Elizabeth Warren proposes a 4-year ban on government officials going to work for "market dominant" companies Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bipartisan legislation would force Big Tech to allow interoperability with small competitors Cory Doctorow
Business AT&T hikes business customers' bills by up to 7%, charging them to recoup its own property taxes Cory Doctorow