America Needs the New EU Data Law You’ve Never Heard Of
The US has lagged behind Europe in safeguarding individual rights to protect and control data. A new EU law may unintentionally help US citizens.
Category: Law
For Yelp, Extortion Has a Starring Role
Yelp uses the power of its rating system to bully small businesses into buying their expensive advertising; if they decline, so do their ratings.
Will Surveillance Finally Sunset?
Controversial surveillance authorizations are scheduled to sunset this year. Now is the time to press for the end of these Constitution-defying practices.
Now Following You on Twitter: The Police
Social media monitoring tools let local law enforcement scoop up and sift through everyone’s posts, regardless of suspicion.
Culturing Boundaries: The Right to be Offline
France recently passed legislation that’s being billed as a “right to be offline.” What’s behind it, and can we learn something from the French conception of work/life boundaries?
All I Really Need to Know About EMF I Learned After My Wife Got Sick
Jonathan Mirin’s multi-year journey to find the source of his wife’s illness led him to something now so ubiquitous, it’s nearly impossible to avoid: electromagnetic radiation. In the process he learned what industry and government don’t want to talk about.
A Message From the Publisher
Happy birthday us! This month marks one year since we moved to weekly updates. Publisher Mo Lotman shares a few thoughts about The Technoskeptic and the stakes of its mission.
Computo Ergo Sum: Should AI Be Self-Aware?
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed in fiction as having consciousness. In reality, making AI self-aware may not be useful. Unfortunately, that doesn’t preclude things from going horribly wrong.
In the Shadow of Surveillance
Not a user of Facebook? They’re creating a dossier on you anyway.
