Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg@mastodon.xyz

This week's net.wars, "Frenemies", reminds that Google and Apple are not our friends just because they blocked the government's plan to collect location data via the contact tracing app: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/04/frenemies.html

This week's net.wars, "Which science?" reads the initial findings of a project comparing government pandemic responses across the world: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/04/which_science.html

This week's net.wars, "Medical apartheid", pre-emptively opposes vaccination passports, which may be proposed on Monday. Veterans of the 2005-2010 fight against national ID cards groan, "Here we go again." https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/04/medical_apartheid.html

This week's net.wars, "Curating the curators", goes to the first @platgov Platform Governance conference and finds a vast array of new complexity (and in the absence of lawyers, too!) #platgov: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/03/curating_the_curators.html

This week's net.wars, "Dystopian non-fiction", reviews @shalinikantayya's documentary, CODED BIAS, starring @jovialjoy, @mathbabedotorg, @merbroussard, @poptechworks, @zeynep, and @silkiecarlo. Tl;dr: See this movie! https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/03/dystopian_non-fiction.html

This week's net.wars, "Voter suppression in action", wonders whether the push for online voting was only ever because politicians thought they'd get the voters they wanted: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/03/voter_suppression_in_action.html

This week's net.wars, "Covid's children", visits the LSE's panel on children's and young people's post-covid experience convened by Sonia Livingstone (@Livingstone_S) and ponders the future awaiting the baby downstairs as outlined by Jen Persson @defenddigitalme: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/03/covids_children.html

This week's net.wars, "The convenience", starts with a mobile vaccination unit and winds up pondering the growing splinternet of non-interoperable communications: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/02/the_convenience.html

This week's net.wars, "Vaccine connoisseurs", updates some past interests, but mostly frets about the potential for immunity passports as vaccines roll out and begin to create health snobbery: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/02/vaccine_conoisseurs.html

This week's net.wars, "The spirit of Mother Jones", surveys the chancges that labor organizing in Silicon Valley will succeed this time: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/02/the_spirit_of_mother_jones.html. (The title is a reference to the great Andy Irvine's song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IETKlEUAaRo.)

This week's net.wars, "Dead cat trampoline", gawks at Gamestop; yes, the market is broken and this is not good news: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/02/dead_cat_trampoline.html.

This week's net.wars, "Surveillance without borders", goes to @cpdpconferences #cpdp2021, where proposals include "collectivizing" Facebook: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/01/surveillance_without_borders.html

This week's net.wars, "In the balance" visits the Facebook Oversight Board's new caseload and Australia's push toward forcing platforms to negotiate license fees with publishers: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/01/in_the_balance.html

The thousandth weekly net.wars, "One thousand", is not so different from the first, back in November 2001: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/01/one_thousand.html

This week's net.wars (999), "The most dangerous game", surveys this week's Capitol Building attack, in which uncrackable encryption played no role: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/01/the_most_dangerous_game.html

This week's net.wars (998), "Build back", welcomes 2021 and hopes to replace bleakness with the long, one-step-at-a-time slog of remediation: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/12/build_back.html

This week's net.wars (997), "Year out", reviews 2020 and concludes that things happened but we can't really remember what they were: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/12/year_out.html

This week's net.wars (996), "Ghost hackers", visits @CEPS_thinktank Workshop on the Economics of Information Security and learns that life as a career hacker may be not much different from the lives @marylgray and @ssuri profiled in their book Ghost Work: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/12/ghost_hackers.html

This week's net.wars (995), "Facebook in review", mulls the antitrust suits and how we got here: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/12/facebook_in_review.html

This week's net.wars (994), "Scraped", visits the hiQ v LinkedIn case and concludes that no matter how you look at it, users lose (but web scraping should be legal): https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/12/scraped.html