Beth Simone NoveckAfter ChatGPT burst on the scene last November, some government officials raced to prohibit its use. Italy banned the chatbot. New Yo
Jessica MaddoxWhen Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, many users migrated to the free and open-source platform Mastodon. Mastodon, like other decen
The EU Parliament is looking to regulate AI. That, in itself, isn't necessarily a bad idea. But the EU's proposal the AI Act is pretty much bad all over, given that it's vague, broad, and would allow pretty much any citizen of any EU nation to wield the government's power to shut down…
There may be an entire commission behind the push to mandate client-side scanning in the European Union, but there's one truly propulsive force behind it: Commissioner Ylva Johansson, the person in charge of the Home Affairs office. Johansson is the one who penned a largely incoherent defense of the proposal back in August 2022, long…
Morgan MeakerBritta Eder s list of phone contacts is full of people the German state considers to be criminals. As a defense lawyer in Hamburg, her cli