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An early 20th century editorial cartoon depicting the Standard Oil Company an a world-spanning octopus clutching the organs of state — White House, Capitol dome, etc — in its tentacles. It has been altered: to its left, curled within its tentacles, stands an early 20th century cartoon depicting Uncle Sam as a policeman with a billyclub, with a DOJ Antitrust Division crest on his chest. On its right, one of its tentacles clutches an early Google ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button. Its head has been color

An early 20th century editorial cartoon depicting the Standard Oil Company an a world-spanning octopus clutching the organs of state — White House, Capitol dome, etc — in its tentacles. It has been altered: to its left, curled within its tentacles, stands an early 20th century cartoon depicting Uncle Sam as a policeman with a billyclub, with a DOJ Antitrust Division crest on his chest. On its right, one of its tentacles clutches an early Google ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button. Its head has been color

Cory Doctorow

The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it

“People like relevant ads” is a lie, and “attribution” is an abomination.

Aug 7

The interior of a luxury car. There is a dagger protruding from the steering wheel. The entertainment console has been replaced by the text ‘You wouldn’t download a car,’ in MPAA scare-ad font. Outside of the windscreen looms the Matrix waterfall effect. Visible in the rear- and side-view mirror is the driver: the figure from Munch’s ‘Scream.’ The screen behind the steering-wheel has been replaced by the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey. Image: Cryteria

The interior of a luxury car. There is a dagger protruding from the steering wheel. The entertainment console has been replaced by the text ‘You wouldn’t download a car,’ in MPAA scare-ad font. Outside of the windscreen looms the Matrix waterfall effect. Visible in the rear- and side-view mirror is the driver: the figure from Munch’s ‘Scream.’ The screen behind the steering-wheel has been replaced by the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey. Image: Cryteria

Cory Doctorow

Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies

Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product.

Mar 12

The produce section of a grocery store, with Kroger’s signage. It is animated. The image fades to a version in which all the hand-lettered price signs are replaced with code waterfalls as seen in the credit-sequences of the Wachowskis’ ‘Matrix’ movies. The image fades again and the huge, menacing eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ appears in the center aisle, and all the prices have doubled. The image fades again and the doubled prices are replaced with the code waterfall agai

Cory Doctorow

Surveillance pricing

They spy on you for many reasons, but also to rip you off.

Jun 5

A hospital room with a hospital bed. The patient in the bed is wearing some kind of red mind-control helmet with a red cord snaking away to a switchplate on the wall. He is grimacing and clutching his sheets. A breakway wall shows a caricature of Uncle Sam whose legs stick out to suggest a horseshoe magnet. His face has been replaced with the glowing red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ Behind him is a ‘code waterfall’ as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis’ ‘Mat

Cory Doctorow

Privacy first

A powerful principle with a vast constituency.

Dec 6, 2023

A man’s hand holds a mobile phone. Its screen displays an Instagram ad. The ad has been replaced with a slice of a vintage comic book ‘small ads’ page. Image: freeimageslive.co.uk (modified) http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/free_stock_image/using-mobile-phone-jpg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Cory Doctorow

Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk

Ad targeting isn’t “efficient.”

Apr 8, 2023

VW wouldn’t locate kidnapped child because his mother didn’t pay for find-my-car subscription

Cory Doctorow

VW wouldn’t locate kidnapped child because his mother didn’t pay for find-my-car subscription

All the harms of surveillance, none of the benefits.

Feb 28, 2023

A limestone statue called ‘One is Man Controlling Trade,’ located by the Federal Trade Commission building, which features a man trying to rein in an out of control horse

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Wikimedia Foundation Tells FTC to Rein in Commercial Surveillance

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Kate Ruane, Lead Public Policy Specialist for the United States; Ellen Magallanes, Senior Counsel…

Nov 21, 2022

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