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FreedomMatters.nlOct 18, 2026

Apple moet uitleg geven: wat doet de Foto’s-app met onze gezichten?

Een Amerikaanse rechtszaak stelt de vraag of de gezichtssjablonen die Apples Foto’s-app maakt onder biometrische privacyregels vallen. Het draait om transparantie, toestemming en controle over gezichtsgegevens.

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TechdirtOct 15, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Long Decline Of Certainty

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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TechdirtOct 13, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The End Of The Universal Internet

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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FreedomMatters.nlOct 10, 2026

Podcasttip: Weg van Big Tech

Een podcasttip over de macht van Big Tech, privacyvriendelijke alternatieven en de bescherming van onze digitale rechten.

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TechdirtOct 8, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Illusion Of Knowing Us

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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FreedomMatters.nlOct 6, 2026

Luistertip: hoe Europa grip probeert te krijgen op Big Tech

Een recente FT News Briefing kijkt naar de invloed van Amerikaanse Big Tech op Europese beleidsmakers en digitale regelgeving.

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TechdirtOct 5, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Finished Internet

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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James HaleyOct 2, 2026

7 Ways I'm Fighting Back Against Rising Prices

What do we do with the price of EVERYTHING going up?

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TechdirtOct 1, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Digital Climate

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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TechdirtOct 1, 2026

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding

Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless "self-regulatory" regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality of these orgs can vary somewhat, generally they're just a toothless pantomime designed to pretend that corporate power can effectively police itself for ethical and competitive breaches. U.S. history has a thing or two to say...

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TechdirtSep 28, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When The Maps Became The Territory

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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TechdirtSep 25, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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TechdirtSep 21, 2026

The Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces Itself

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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TechdirtSep 16, 2026

Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’

In an ideal world it's certainly possible that the U.S. federal government could implement meaningful guardrails for AI development that protect innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor/creatives, while preventing market monopolization by the sector's biggest players. But we don't live in that ideal world. We live in a country where an historically...

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TechdirtSep 3, 2026

Apple, Google Pathetically Buckle To Trump’s Dim And Lazy Effort To Rename Lake Ontario

When we look back at this time and history words like "courage," "integrity," and "ethics" aren't words you're going to be associating with U.S. tech industry leadership. Everywhere you look you have tech sector executives either openly embracing fascism and the frontal assault on representative democracy, or too feckless and timid to take any sort...

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European ThoughtsSep 2, 2026

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