Right, enough talking about the UK, let’s go back to our shores and, today, discuss an exciting opportunity for internet users in the USA. On July 2022, Cory Booker and Ben Ray Luján introduced the “Uncap America Act”. Should the bill pass, it would help regulate data caps from internet…

My coverage of US affairs regarding tech and digital privacy, coupled with Europe’s reputation for being a bit more progressive when it comes to these matters, might make people think that only the US government makes awful choices when it comes to the internet. Fear not, friends, for…

Despite its many, many flaws, WhatsApp remains one of the most popular messaging apps out there. Debates around its security and usefulness continue unabated and some people still preach it to be the best. However, that could not be further from the truth. Though I could talk for a while…

There have been quite a few stories about unions this year, from Starbucks to Amazon to Apple. Big corporations are, once again, facing a wave of unionizations at their warehouses, stores and more. Most of them, predictably, are trying to fight back and engaging in union-busting, which usually just gives…

By now you surely know the news: Elon Musk has bought Twitter. The billionaire spent billions of dollars to acquire the social network and announced that his first steps would be to open-source the algorithm Twitter uses, which is a genuinely good thing, and to “authenticate” real users, supposedly to…

You’ve surely noticed the trend. More and more things that we used to simply pay for and use however we see fit are now transitioning to a subscription system. The term “software as a service” has become mundane, content creators are all relying on Patreon subscriptions, GamePass is a thing…

If you’ve ever had a particularly nasty week where nothing went your way, you should know exactly how Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and WhatsApp, must feel right now. In the span of a few days news broke that the company is underperforming financially, its products are losing users…

Almost a year ago, I wrote an article on Google’s FLoC — an algorithm that was supposed to replace third-party cookies and, according to Google’s dubious claims, protect user privacy when it came to targeted ads. If you’ve read that one or, in fact, almost any article about…

Close to a year ago, Apple released its new product — the AirTag. Rumored to be in development nearly two years before their unveiling, AirTags caused quite a stir immediately upon release. Much of it was positive, as people praised the idea of making a tiny tracker that, in theory…