No Matter What the Bank Says, It’s YOUR Money, YOUR Data, and YOUR Choice
By Cory Doctorow The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule that makes it easy and safe for you to figure out…
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To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech
By Cory Doctorow The news is in trouble. It’s not just the mass closures of newsrooms – it’s also the physical and ideological attacks on…
Europe’s Digital Services Act: on a Collision Course With Human Rights
By Cory Doctorow Last year, the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), an ambitious and thoughtful project to rein in the power of Big…
Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship
By Cory Doctorow Conservatives are being censored Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end…
A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition
By Cory Doctorow As long we’ve had electronic mass media, audiences and creators have benefited from periods of technological upheaval that force old gatekeepers to…
This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
By Cory Doctorow With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we’re told the debate will…
More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective
By Cory Doctorow The EU’s Copyright Directive will be voted on in the week of March 25 (our sources suggest the vote will take place…
German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters, Which Inevitably Lead to Internet “Oligopoly”
By Cory Doctorow German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences…
The Worst Possible Version of the EU Copyright Directive Has Sparked a German Uprising
By Cory Doctorow Last week’s publication of the final draft of the new EU Copyright Directive baffled and infuriated almost everyone, including the massive entertainment…
The Final Version of the EU’s Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet
By Cory Doctorow Despite ringing denunciations from small EU tech businesses, giant EU entertainment companies, artists’ groups, technical experts, and human rights experts, and the…
Four million Europeans’ Signatures Opposing Article 13 Have Been Delivered to the European Parliament
By Cory Doctorow Lawmakers in the European Union (EU) often lament the lack of citizen engagement with the complex policy questions that they wrestle with…
In a Letter To The EU, European Film Companies and Sports Leagues Disavow Article 13, Say It Will Make Big Tech Stronger
By Cory Doctorow A coalition of some of Europe’s largest film companies and sports leagues have published an open letter to the European Union officials…
Poland Saved Europe From ACTA: Can They Save Us From ACTA2?
By Cory Doctorow Six years ago, Polish activists flooded the streets to oppose ACTA, an incredibly damaging, secretly negotiated Internet treaty hatched in the US…
Yes, the EU’s New #CopyrightDirective is All About Filters
By Cory Doctorow When the EU started planning its new Copyright Directive (the “Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive”), a group of powerful entertainment…