netwars

This week's net.wars, "Negative externalities", watches Texas police use license plate data to search for a woman they think might have self-managed an abortion; pushes back on a report that suggests a publicly funded NHS period-tracking app is a better idea; and notes the passage of the UK's new data bill weakening citizens' rights over their data: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/06/13/negative-externalities/ #NetWars #UKpolitics #Abortion #DataBill #Privacy

This week's net.wars, "Conundrum", goes to a meeting on copyright's "existential threat" to generative AI: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/11/conundrum/ #NetWars #Copyright #AI

This week's net.wars, "A thousand small safety acts", talks to lawyer @neil about the Online Safety Act's impact on the community Internet - the small web boards, forums, chat channels, projects, and volunteer services: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/06/20/a-thousand-small-safety-acts/ #NetWars #FreeSpeech #OnlineSafetyAct #UKPol

This week's net.wars, "Big Bang", finds a folk musician fighting to get back the rights over his long-ago recorded music, and chronicles the first week of age verification in the UK: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/01/big-bang/ #NetWars #HumanRights #Copyright #FolkMusic #AgeVerification

In this week's net.wars, "Cautionary tales", I consider becoming a child for the purposes of age verification, and Substack becomes a unicorn. Dare we predict enshittification? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/18/cautionary-tales/ #NetWars #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #Substack #VentureCapital #HumanRights

This week's net.wars, "Revival", ponders the purported death of Bluesky and the company town potential of large companies exploring stablecoins: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/06/27/revival/ #NetWars #SocialMedia #Crypto

This week's net.wars, "Magic math balls", marvels at the escalation of the US-UK-Apple case of the backdoored encryption and wonders at the surrealism of "woke AI": https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/25/magic-math-balls/ #NetWars #encryption #Apple #AI

This week's net.wars, "Machine learning", chats about chatbots in education with a tiny unrepresentative sample of those dealing with them: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/08/machine-learning/ #NetWars #education #AI