Podcast Episode: Antitrust/Pro-Internet

Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make good livings. In this world, the behavioral advertising that has made the internet into a giant...

EFF to Ninth Circuit: There’s No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits

Copyright’s reach is already far too broad, and courts have no business expanding it any further, particularly where that reframing will undermine adversarial interoperability. Unfortunately, a federal district court did just that in the latest...

Privacy First and Competition

“Privacy First” is a simple, powerful idea: seeing as so many of today’s technological problems are also privacy problems, why don’t we fix privacy first?Whether you’re worried about kids’ mental health, or tech’s relationship to journalism, or...

Search Engine Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of search engines worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

Android Choice Screen Winners

Following the European Commission’s July 2018 Android decision, Google is implementing a choice screen for general search providers on all Android phones and tablets shipped into the European Economic Area (EEA) where the Google Search app is...

Suspend Israel from International Sports. Sign the DiEM25 Petition.

Sign the petition launched by DiEM25 to suspend Israel from participation in all international sports until it fully complies with international law and sports regulations, including banning Israel from competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Hip Hip Hooray For Hipster Antitrust

Don’t believe the hype.The undeniable fact is that the FTC has racked up a long list of victories over corporate abuses, like busting a nationwide, decades-long fraud that tricked people into paying for “free” tax preparation.The wheels of justice...

Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review

When a system becomes too tightly-controlled and centralized, the people being squeezed tend to push back to reclaim their lost autonomy. The internet is no exception. While the internet began as a loose affiliation of universities and government...

Without Interoperability, Apple Customers Will Never Be Secure

Every internet user should have the ability to privately communicate with the people that matter to them, in a secure fashion, using the tools and protocols of their choosing.Apple’s iMessage offers end-to-end encrypted messaging for its...

You Wanna Break Up With Your Bank? The CFPB Wants to Help You Do It.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has proposed a new “Personal Financial Data Rights” rule that will force your bank to make it easy for you to extract your financial data so that you can use it to comparison shop for a better offer, and...

What’s the Goal and How Do We Get There? Crucial Issues in Brazil’s Take on Saving the News from Big Tech

Amidst the global wave of countries looking at Big Tech revenues and how they relate to the growing news media crisis, many are asking whether and how tech companies should compensate publishers for the journalism that circulates on their...

2023 Photomicrography Competition

View the winning entries from the 2023 Photomicrography Competition

Amazon Allegedly Used Secret Algorithm To Raise Prices On Consumers, FTC Lawsuit Reveals

The FTC called this algorithm “an unfair method of competition” that has “no valid and cognizable justification” and violates the FTC Act.

California’s Middle Mile Network Must Bridge the Digital Divide, Not Reinforce It

When California unanimously passed S.B. 156 in 2021, we embarked on a multi-year, multi-billion dollar endeavor to bring affordable, 21st-century fiber to every Californian. Done correctly, this nearly $7 billion investment—further supplemented by...