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Meta’s metaverse ambitions are now in full retreat. Yesterday, Meta announced that it would be shuttering Horizon Worlds, its flagship VR app and the “culmination of [everything Meta had] learned so far about virtual spaces and communities.” This comes on the heels of another 1500 layoffs within Meta’s Reality Labs Division – my old stomping
As an avid listener of Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell’s podcasts, I was excited to join the pair to discuss my work at DuckDuckGo, the company’s philosophy around privacy and AI, and whether governments and lawmakers “have the spine to go up against Big Tech’s trillion-dollar dragnet.” Listen to the episode on Spotify and Apple
Ahead of a disappointing set of remedies to address Google’s anticompetitive conduct in the search market, I joined Anant Raut, a former Metamate, on his must-listen-if-you’re-into-antitrust ABA podcast to talk about why data sharing and syndication remedies in Big Tech antitrust cases can promote innovation and aren’t the IP expropriation that tech lobbyists claim them
I’ve been disappointed by how little interest the remedies portion of this 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, and for all of the stakeholders calling for a digital regulator, the government’s proposal to put an independent technical committee in
Despite quite a bit of snow and a big job change, I was equally psyched to get selected to return to State of the Net to give a second lightning talk on the future of search. Full video is above and my original remarks are below. Fixing Search with Index Access Internet search is a
After launching Tech Policy Grind back in the halcyon days of 2017, I finally jointed the Foundry’s podcast as a guest to talk about the Google search antitrust case: The discussion covers the historical context of antitrust actions, the proposed remedies aimed at breaking Google’s monopoly, and the implications for competition in the tech industry.
I recently contributed two pieces to Tech Policy Press on the state of privacy rights in the United States:
To mark the Digital Markets Act coming into effect, the Data Transfer Initiative hosted a full-day summit on the future of data portability. I contributed a short policy paper exploring how data portability in the context of emerging technology like spatial computing and digital avatars: When Mark Zuckerberg christened Meta in October 2021, his founder’s
I ve always wanted to participate in a State of the Net, so it was cool to debut with a lightning talk on the policy implications of spatial computing. A time crunch and some presentation rust on my part led me to give the last third of the talk with blast processing enabled, so I wanted
I am a huge fan of Geoffrey Fowler’s skeptical writing on tech, so it was a legitimate treat to get to talk to him and geek out about body-based data and my newest hobby horse: spatial data (and how it s used in the Apple Vision Pro)! My hope is to get more privacy and, frankly,