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Who’s the boss? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net on June 30th 2017 Even for Google, €2.4 billion is a lot of money. It makes the £130…
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The ghost in the machine – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the net.wars column on June 16th, 2017 Humans are a problem in decision-making. We have prejudices based on limited…
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The power of privacy – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“It’s about power.” Because humans like to count in handfuls, this year’s Privacy Law Scholars, the tenth, kicked off with a panel…
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Hate week – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net on May 26th, 2007 When, say ten years from now, someone leaks the set of rules by which…
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Policy questions for 2022 – Net.wars by Wendy Grossman
For last weekend’s OpenTech I had recklessly suggested imagining the Daily Mail headlines of the future. Come to actually plan the talk,…
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Google’s You Tube rating illusion – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelican crossing.net on the net.wars column Before there was the internet there were commercial information services and conferencing systems.…
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Re-accommodating… – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the Net.Wars column on pelicancrossing.com Last year, some folks at MIT implemented a version of the trolley problem they called the Moral Machine, a series…
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Google vs book authors as Fair Use bites – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the Net.Wars column on pelicancrossing.com This week, the veteran screenwriter Ken Levine started a thread on outdated terms in common use…
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What is next for tech journalism? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.com on the Net.Wars column Yesterday in Cambridge, the veteran journalist Charles Arthur held an eventat the Centre for Research in the Arts,…
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Who wants a working Internet? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the Net.Wars column on pelicancrossing.net on March 3rd 2017 “I thought the phone company would do it all,” John Connolly…
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