Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg@mastodon.xyz

This week's net.wars, "Antepenultimate", carps about the choices forced on us by the way UK banks are implementing 2FA under PSD2: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/antepenultimate.html

This week's net.wars, "The law of the camera", is dismayed by the privatization of public space that facial recognition at Kings Cross represents: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/the_law_of_the_camera.html

This week's net.wars, "Collision course", considers the mismatch between growing mass surveillance systems and concerns about our democratic future: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/collision_course.html

This week's net.wars, "Negative externalities", mulls the disappearance of the "millennial lifestyle" as financial reality bites down on unsustainable, loss-makers: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/07/negative_externalities.html

This week's net.wars, "Creepiness at scale", wishes companies would stop mining Philip K. Dick for new dystopias to invent: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/06/creepiness_at_scale.html

This week's net.wars, "Level two", visits the danger zone this week's NHTSB report highlights between the reality of today's "AI" and our perception of it: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/06/level_two.html

This week's net.wars, "Update needed", reviews Kieren McCarthy's (@kieren) paper on Internet governance. Tl;dr: needs an update: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/06/update_needed.html

This week's net.wars, "Nine meals to anarchy", revisits a 2020 talk by the Birmingham Food Council's Kate Cooper for the Cybernetics Society (@cybsights) on her work understanding the fragile, complex system that feeds us: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/06/nine_meals_from_anarchy.html

In this week's net.wars, "Well may the bogeyman come", we visit (in person!) #cpdp2022 @cpdpconferences to find frustration and hope among the thoughts of the future of privacy: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/05/well_may_the_bogeyman_come.html

This week's net.wars, "Mona Lisa smile", hopes Zoom will listen to the 27 human rights groups, led by @fightfortheftr, asking it not to install "emotion detection"; it's not a feature, it's a bug! https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/05/mona_lisa_smile.html

This week's net.wars, "False economy" finds that this week every cryptocurrency has been unhappy in its own way: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/05/false_economy.html

This week's net.wars, "Heartbeat", reads Justice Alito's draft ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, and considers the privacy implications: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/05/heartbeat.html

This week's net.wars, "The abundance of countries", mashes together the CJEU ruling on Article 17 of the copyright directive, free speech on Twitter, the nascent cybercrime treaty, and AI-enhanced plagiarism: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/04/the_abundane_of_countries.html

This week's net.wars, "The new cable", ponders Netflix's abrupt change of fortunes: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/04/the_new_cable.html

This week's net.wars, "The data of sport", reads @juliapowles' and @tobywalsh's paper on the rampant collection of data about athletes (and watches the video of the launch panel); as usual all the wrong people benefit: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/04/the_data_of_sport.html

This week's net.wars, "The price of 'free'", welcomes Amazon' Staten Island's vote to unionize and considers the context: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/04/the_price_of_free.html

This week's net.wars, "Grounded", watches the recent documentary DOWNFALL: THE CASE AGAINST BOEING while reading @JessieSingerNYC's recent book, THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/04/grounded.html

This week's net.wars, "Dangerous corner", considers privacy, facial recognition, and Ukraine's use of Clearview AI. (with thanks to @halhod, whose tweet inspired it and @jackmcd83): https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/03/dangerous_corner_1.html

This week's net.wars, "There may be trouble ahead..." is alarmed by reading the Nature paper on using AI to generate potential candidate molecules to become neurotoxins: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/03/there_may_be_trouble_ahead.html

This week's net.wars, "The rhetoric meets the road", considers the proposition that cryptocurrencies pose a significant loophole to economic sanctions: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/03/the_rhetoric_meets_the_road.html

This week's net.wars, "Sovereign stack", discusses Ukraine's request that ICANN shut down Russia's Internet access. Tl;dr: bad idea: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/03/sovereign_stack.html

This week's net.wars, "Irreparable harm" indicts the adults and the flawed security system that is anti-doping in the case of Kamila Valieva: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/02/irreparable_harm.html

This week's net.wars, "The search for intelligent life", goes looking for meat inside "web3" and finds Danny O'Brien (@mala) and an explanation of Filecoin: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/02/the_search_for_intelligent_lif.html