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Closing arguments "offered a window into the court’s thinking around four critical factors: markets that remedies should apply to, how remedies might affect other markets, proportionality of remedies, and administrability of remedies,” writes @sumitecon.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social:

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It's in my cart. Someone remind me that I don't need it. Please.

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Found out about a new health regulation @badhippa.bsky.social

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"ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo." AI might — might — make us more efficient, but we’re headed straight back to a universe where only the elite are educated.

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"Rather than provide this Court with remedies designed to restore competition, Google presented this Court with milquetoast remedies that it knows will maintain the status quo. And why? Because Google, like all monopolists, would prefer the world stay the same." Milquetoast is a fun word.

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"Bentham’s panopticon and Black Mirror’s worst fantasies pale before the comprehensive privacy invasions enthusiastically contemplated by Silicon Valley leaders." Quite the turn of phrase by Mark MacCarthy for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/the-privacy-...

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Had a great time discussing competition in the search engine market the other day with Cori, Alissa and Oles. We covered DMA impact & next steps, lessons learned from the US v Google trial, and more!

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New panel 🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KqQ... ‪@alissacooper.bsky.social‬ (‪@knightgtown.bsky.social‬), ‪@coricrider.com (‪@openmarkets.bsky.social‬) & @apmaehl.bsky.social (DuckDuckGo) offer their views on the situation with competition in online search, on the latest legislative initiatives & cases

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Clegg is seriously writing a book entitled “How to Save Internet.”

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W3C published its statement on Privacy Principles for a more trustworthy web, with an introduction to privacy on the web, covering topics like data governance, individual autonomy, deceptive patterns, consent... cc @robin.berjon.com www.w3.org/blog/2025/ne...

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"Meta is the name that Google hasn’t said aloud with Android XR, but you can feel its presence loom.” The metaverse lives! www.theverge.com/hands-on/671...

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“People talked about all sorts of First Amendment, Second Amendment… they talked about any amendment they could make up, and we got it through.” www.theverge.com/news/661230/...

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Good to see her owning … her perfectly normal pictures. Demanding public figures have some perfectly curated online presences is a problem, and is a distraction from substance.

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Among other things, Google is arguing Bruce Schneier’s dark patterns testimony should be blocked because experts can’t opine about intent, and the concept of dark patterns design by definition includes the intent to deceive. content.mlex.com#/content/165...

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I’ve been disappointed by how little interest the remedies portion of the Google Search antitrust trial has received within the privacy community. Privacy, data protection, and information governance is at the heart of much of what is being proposed. A few rambling thoughts from yours truly:

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If I’m right, NetChoice is now arguing that Apple’s free speech rights give it veto power over any aspect of any app, since letting app developers communicate how they’d like to get paid in-app is compelled speech? content.mlex.com/Attachments/...

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And the FTC enters the chat! #USvGoogle www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

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I worked at Reality Labs, so I want to be charitable to how internal stakeholders grapple with a loaded issue like facial recognition. BUT, that said, Meta’s messaging is often too clever by half double speak.

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There is no way to responsibly deploy facial recognition in consumer smartglasses at scale. The reporting here suggests this would be an opt-in feature (for the glasses wearer) and signaled to the public via a light. Neither is a meaningful privacy mitigation. www.theinformation.com/articles/met...

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This is why Google stock price tanked 7.5% and wiped out $140 billion in market cap - full ungated MLEX piece on Apple executive Eddy Cue's testimony in the DOJ's search monopolization trial here: www.mlex.com/mlex/antitru...

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This amicus brief from “bipartisan former antitrust enforcers” in the Google search remedy trial is something. All of these men, who did nothing to stop Google’s monopoly, go to great lengths to say not much should be done now. #GoogleAmicusMachine storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The AI market is competitive…except Google is the best source for grounding, which mitigates hallucinations and reduces re-training, and it’s self-preferencing itself: www.mlex.com/mlex/antitru...

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“You’re on your own! It’s a business thing.” @alexmahadevan.com argues community notes have been a colossal failure at @poynterinstitute.bsky.social. Worth flagging X’s presentation on this at State of the Net: youtu.be/ch4LTIfyEgg?...

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“You can only have the crumbs of human connection with these chatbots,” starts @drewharwell.com. “The solution to needing friends is not to create fake friends, unless you’re in the business of selling fake friends.”

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Partner takes me to a @poynterinstitute.bsky.social event on the Future of Facts Online, and hey! It’s @drewharwell.com!

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@bostonu.bsky.social's Rory Vanloo has a banger of an article on how Big Tech uses privacy as a pretext. It’s unfortunate for privacy advocates, since it requires making constant deals with the devil: scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scho...

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“But why is Google using privacy as a defense now? So that it can continue to treat the general search market as its private fiefdom,” argues @joellthayer.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/google-makes...

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All week, Google has talked about how Chrome is part of its commitment to a better web, but their browser is just a vehicle for expanding search and making more ad money. www.justice.gov/atr/media/13...

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So @bedoyaftc.bsky.social and @rebeccakslaughter.bsky.social have such awesome chemistry on @reckless.bsky.social’s show. Hope they get their jobs back, but it’s fun to hear government servants be genuine, funny, and casually informative. www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

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Hey, remember when Google switched on “Buzz” for everyone, bootstrapping sensitive email contacts into a “social network”?

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So @kint.bsky.social has a banger of a thread at the other place on Google’s role in the search ecosystem and company’s CEO’s testimony in the ongoing antitrust trial: x.com/jason_kint/s...

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"“Elizabeth Warren didn’t wait until 2008 to put out a book about how to solve the financial crisis. She had something in hand when it happened,” notes @haroldfeld.bsky.social at @publicknowledge.bsky.social's digital regulator kick-off. publicknowledge.org/new-public-k...

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Mini-rant: for the past six months, I’ve been suggesting Privacyland pay attention to the Google search remedy trial, which raises some interesting privacy and data governance issues. Want proof? Check out this presentation from Prof. David, a DOJ privacy witness: www.justice.gov/atr/media/13...

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“I suspect there have been a number of enhancements in 15 years,” notes a Bing exec in response to questions about whether privacy has evolved since the 2006 AOL search data leak. Google’s lawyers keep invoking the case and conflating lots of privacy concepts.

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How it started 😡 ---> How it’s going 🥰

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