WELCOME to Connected Rights, your hair of the dog of digital rights news and analysis. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to a friend or get them to sign up. I'm David Meyer, aka @superglaze on Twitter and @davidmeyerwrites on Facebook. Don't forget to check out the Connected Rights website and download a copy of my book, Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and … Continue reading How to fix the Copyright Directive lobbying disaster
Good Apple
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your journey through the looking-glass of digital rights news and analysis. APPLE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE NEXT VERSION OF SAFARI will tell users when third parties are trying to track them through things like "like" and "share" buttons, and give them a simple way to block the tracking. And which tracker did … Continue reading Good Apple
Forcing big tech to play fair
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your skip in the step of digital rights news and analysis. THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION HAS ANNOUNCED A "NEW DEAL FOR CONSUMERS" regarding big tech platforms – or at least announced that one is coming. This follows the Commission's ongoing hassles with Google, Facebook and Twitter over the terms they try to impose … Continue reading Forcing big tech to play fair
Privacy vs the news
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your weekly stroll down the poorly-lit lanes of digital rights. THE MEDIA NEEDS TO TRACK YOU TO SURVIVE, according to an open letter sent to EU lawmakers by a host of news publishers, including Der Spiegel, Le Monde, the Financial Times and the Guardian: http://bit.ly/2qA3P0W. So what's all this about then? The issue here is the EU's new … Continue reading Privacy vs the news
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