June 24
Read Baase chapter 2 on privacy and chapter 3 on free speech.
Start reading the material in Chapter 4 on software patents
Debates
The truth does matter: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics/rudy-giuliani-suspended-law/index.html
Google extends Chrome support for third-party cookies from 2021 to 2023: digiday.com/marketing/cheat-sheet-google-extends-cookie-execution-deadline-until-late-2023-will-pause-floc-testing-in-july.
To be fair, Google's FLoC advertising-targeting scheme is not quite ready for the big time.
Facebook's systems are still recommending political groups, despite a pledge to stop: themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/06/24/after-repeatedly-promising-not-to-facebook-keeps-recommending-political-groups-to-its-users.
Just what is a political group? Is Occupy Wall Street one? Black Lives Matter?
Not very long! And not very focused on noncommercial invasions of privacy. (There are also sections 50B-50E, but they do not add much.)
www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/24/1027048/youtube-xinjiang-censorship-human-rights-atajurt.
The video testimony of Xinjiang families includes showing identity documents. But YouTube bans doxxing.
It is not clear if China is using the YouTube complaint process to trigger the takedowns, but it seems plausible.
A big part of the problem is the extremely limited available human review of takedown decisions.
Start with ARM and patents.
Just what is hacking?