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Privacy matters – Net.Wars by Wendy Gorssman
Sometime last week, Laurie Garrett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Coming Plague, proposed a thought experiment to her interviewer on MSNBC.…
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Dot Org Internet domains secretly sold to Private Equity – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
On so many sides, in so many ways, the sale of .org is a tangled thicket of stakeholder unhappiness. There seem to…
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Burn rate – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
One of my favorite moments in the 1996 sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun was when Dick (John Lithgow), the high commander…
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
So can we stop now with the fantasy that data can be anonymized? Two things sparked this train of thought. The first…
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I never paid for it in my life – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
So Jaron Lanier is back, arguing that we should be paid for our data. He was last seen in net.wars two years…
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The China Syndrome – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
About five years ago, a friend commented that despite the early belief – promulgated by, among others, then-US president Bill Clinton and…
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Digital London – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Anyone studying my travel patterns on the London Underground will encounter a conundrum: what makes a person undertake, once or twice a…
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Balancing acts – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
The Court of Justice of the European Union had an important moment on Tuesday, albeit overshadowed by another court elsewhere, ruling that…
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Jumping the shark – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
This week, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Amazon has begun ordering item search results according to their profitability for the company.…
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Collision course – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
The walk from my house to the tube station has changed very little in 30 years. The houses and their front gardens…
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