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A Long Overdue Reckoning For Online Proctoring Companies May Finally Be Here
EFF Legal Intern Haley Amster contributed to this post. Over the past year, the use of online proctoring apps has skyrocketed. But while companies have seen upwards of a 500% increase in their usage, legitimate concerns about their invasiveness , potential bias , and efficacy are also on the...
Deeplinks Blog by Jon Callas | June 22, 2021
Understanding Amazon Sidewalk
Just before the long weekend at the end of May, Amazon announced the release of their Sidewalk mesh network . There are many misconceptions about what it is and what it does, so this article will untangle some of the confusion.It Isn’t Internet SharingMuch of the press about Amazon Sidewalk...
Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | June 22, 2021
Congress Wants to Put the Brakes on Runaway Acquisitions by Big Tech
The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives recently released a comprehensive series of bills designed to curb the excesses of Big Tech. One of them, the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act , addresses one of the biggest, most obvious problems among the largest tech companies: that they use...