Lauren Weinstein's Blog
Separating the Chrome Browser From Google Could Be Terrible for Billions of Users
In the War Between the Federal Government and States Against Drone Maker DJI, Americans Are at Risk
The Website Age Verification Train Wreck
Unforced Errors: How the U.S. Is Losing Its Lead in Technology and Science Research
The Enormous Negative Impacts of the New Tariffs on the Technology Sector
DOGE Is Destroying Social Security, and Seniors Are Already at Risk
Holding Social Media Responsible: Time To Change Section 230?
The Helpful Google Ombudsman (Who Doesn’t Exist)
More Bipartisan Madness: Commerce Department Proposes Yet Another Insane Chinese Drone Ban That Could Cost Lives
AI Is Dooming Google, but Not in the Way Its CEO Believes
[What say you, Spock?] My Proposed Terminology to Describe Bypassing Social Media Face ID Age Verification Systems
Insanity: Drone Hysteria and Bans Put Lives at Risk
Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Is Doomed
DOJ’s Proposed Antitrust “Remedies” Against Google Would Be a Disaster
DOJ vs. Google: Users have the most to lose
“I Am the Very Model of a Google AI Overview”
What Google Should Do About Their Search Generative AI Overview Answers
Generative AI Is Being Rammed Down Our Throats
Evil
The Nightmare of Google Account Recovery Failures
Google and Seniors
About Google and Location Privacy
Google’s Inactive Account Policy and Phishing Attacks Concerns
In Support of Google’s Progress On AI Content Choice and Control
Radio Transcript: Google Passkeys and Google Account Recovery Concerns
Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method — I urge you NOT to use it!
UK Passage of Online Safety Bill to Create Chinese-Style Internet Tracking and Censorship — Coming Soon to U.S.?
The Potential Privacy Problems With YouTube’s Family Plan “Suggestion Leakage”
Artificial Intelligence at the Crossroads
Thoughts on AI Regulation
A Proposal for “Enhanced Recovery Services” for Locked Out Google Accounts
An Example of a Very Sad Google Account Recovery Failure — and How It Affects Real People
Potentially Serious Issues with Google’s Announced Inactive Accounts Deletion Policy
How Google Broke Chrome Bookmarks Sync
Big Tech Needs to Vastly Improve Their Public Communications — or Potentially Face a Political Train Wreck Over AI (and More)
The “AI Crisis”: Who Is Responsible?
State and Federal Internet ID Age Requirements Are Hell-Bent on Turning the Internet Into a Chinese-Style Internet Nightmare
Giving Creators and Websites Control Over Generative AI
2023 and Social Media’s Winds of Change
Social Media Is Probably Doomed
How to Fix Google’s Gmail Political Spam Bypass Plan
Google’s Horrible Plan to Flood Your Gmail with Political Garbage
My Thoughts About Google’s New Blog Post Regarding Health-Related Data Privacy
Social Media Sites Should Be Required to ID Many Users
Internet Users’ Safety in a Post-Roe World
Big Tech and the Internet Are Not Our Enemies
How to Better Solve YouTube’s “Dislike Count” Problem
Apple Backdoors Itself
Keep Governments Away from Social Media “Misinformation Control”
We Have Met the Ransomware Enemy, and It Is (Partly) Us!
DeJoy Is Hell-Bent on Wrecking the Postal Service — and Maybe Your Life
How the “News Link Wars” Could Wreck the Web
The Big Lie About “Cancel Culture” and Demands to Change Section 230
The Challenges of Moderating User Content on the Internet (and a Bit of History)
The Right’s (and Left’s) Insane Internet Content Power Grab (repost with new introduction)
Recommendation: Do Not Install or Use Centralized Server Coronavirus (COVID-19) Contact Tracing Apps
Coronavirus Reactions Creating Major Internet Security Risks
Iowa Screams: Don’t Trust High-Tech Elections!
How Some Software Designers Don’t Seem to Care About the Elderly
The Right’s (and Left’s) Insane Internet Content Power Grab
Another Breach: What Capital One Could Have Learned from Google’s “BeyondCorp”
Earthquakes vs. Darth Vader
YouTube’s Public Videos Dilemma
A Major New Privacy-Positive Move by Google
Could AI Help Prevent Mass Shootings?
Pressuring Google’s AI Advisory Panel to Wear a Halo Is Very Dangerous
Don’t Blame YouTube and Facebook for Hate Speech Horrors
As Google’s YouTube Battles Evil, YouTube Creators Are at a Crossroads
Another Positive Move by YouTube: No More General “Conspiracy Theory” Suggestions
Another Massive Google User Trust Failure, As They Kill Louisville Fiber on Short Notice
Google Users Panic Over Google+ Deletion Emails: Here’s What’s Actually Happening
Google’s Google+ Shutdown Emails Are Causing Mass Confusion
If Google Cared: The Tool That Could Save Google+ Relationships
Google Finally Speaks About the G+ Shutdown: Pretty Much Tells Users to Go to Hell
Google’s G+ User Trust Betrayal Gets Worse and Worse
Paid “Ad-Free” YouTube Premium Is Now Showing Ads
An Important Message from “Google” about Google+ !
Another Awful Google Accessibility Failure: The New “Google Contacts”
Thanks Google! — YouTube Cracks Down on Dangerous Videos
Boot to the Head: When You Know that Google Just Doesn’t Care Anymore
Google’s Brain Drain Should Alarm Us All
Finally, Some Good News About the EU’s Horrendous “Right To Be Forgotten” Law
Why Google Is Terrified of Its Users
A New Invite-Only Forum for Victims of Google’s Google+ Purge
Google’s Reaction to Chromecast Hijacking Is Another User Trust Failure
USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea
Google’s China Dilemma Is Ours as Well
A Terrible and All Too Common YouTube Abuse Story
Why I No Longer Recommend Google for Many Serious Business Applications
The Terrifying Moment at the Congressional Google Hearing Today
Recent Google Posts
Can We Trust Google?
The DATA Says: Google’s “Dragonfly” Chinese Search Is Doomed
Save Google — but Let Facebook Die
My Thoughts on New Studies of Toxic Emissions from 3D Printers
After the Walkout, Google’s Moment of Truth
Beware of “Self-Selected” Surveys of Google Employees
Why Internet Tech Employees Are Rebelling Against Military Contracts
The Death of Google
How to Disable Gmail’s Annoying New “Smart Compose” Predictive Typing Feature