Your Terms & Rights May Vary

Never trust someone who ends their sentence in a question.

You Are Shedding Data Everywhere

The New Data State

Big Data is here to help you, starting right now.

It's an exceptional report authored by John D. Podesta, a senior White House adviser. Potentially in a ploy to distract from the egregious NSA violations committed in the previous hour, the report is notable in that it has the imprimatur of a White House that is arguably, the most tech-friendly ever. Exploring privacy and data regulations in the marketplace, it states:

When Did This Become OK?

I can't say that I'm surprised by the recent Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. But I am concerned by the implications.

Net neutrality has an air of EFF authority. But since we (and the EFF) have no control over, say, fiber optic lines that span continents, the concept really has just remained an optimistic goal.