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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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Unfortunately recurring phenomena – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
It’s summer, and the current comprehensively bad news is all stuff we can do nothing about. So we’re sweating the smaller stuff.…
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Do you eat sand? Privacy in the age of AI – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Privacy, pioneering activist Simon Davies writes in his new book, Privacy: A Personal Chronicle, “varies widely according to context and environment to…
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G in Genomics stands for Gullible – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
In 2011, as part of an investigation she conducted into the possible genetic origins of the streak of depression that ran through…
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What the Internet is not for? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
It may seem unfair to keep busting on the explosion of the Internet’s origin myths, but documenting what happens to the beliefs…
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Misforgotten – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“It’s amazing. We’re all just sitting here having lunch like nothing’s happening, but…” This was on Tuesday, as the British Parliament was…
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Prognostalgia – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“What seems to you like the big technology story of 2018?” I asked a friend. “The lack of excitement,” she replied. New…
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Cage Match – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net on August 18th, 2017 “The robot”, a friend used to call his telephone answering machine. “The robot”, another…
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The Long Arm of the Law – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
It’s a little over three years since the European Court of Justice held in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González…
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