I am fortunate to be in Europe for a couple of weeks. It’s always striking to see the quality of public infrastructure here. The Paris Metro is a marvel—beautiful, fast, and extensive. (Why the Metro operates so much better than the NYC Subway, given its smaller operating budget, is a story for another time.) This […]
As is often the case with President Trump, the corruption is out in the open. As a lawyer, it sickens me that the president continues to get away with this. Are people okay with this? CEO Makes Shocking Admission About Why He’s Buying Trump’s Meme Coin (Yahoo! News) A crypto mogul who invested millions into […]
I noted this in my longer blog post this evening, but to post quickly here: two opinion pieces I wrote have now been published: one in the Chicago Tribune and the other, co-written with my wife, in the Philadelphia Inquirer. (These pieces may be paywalled, but I will post PDFs here in the coming days.) I hope you […]
President Trump and a captive and docile Republican Party are pursuing authoritarian power. Everyone must step up to defend our country.
Today – June 6, 2024 – is the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landing in Europe to liberate the continent from Hitler and Nazism. Every June 6, I pause to think about those who fought and the many who died on the beaches of Normandy and during the campaign that followed, and I always experience […]
Short answer: not yet. My “hot take” is below.
The behemoth General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) governs the European Economic Area*. By contrast, no federal privacy regulation applies across all U.S. states. A company must comply with regulations of the states in which it does business. As a practical matter, compliance is geared towards the state with the most stringent regulations. Effective January 1, […]
I was browsing — okay, I admit it, I was on Twitter — and came across an ad for a new, privacy-respecting web browser called Brave. Intrigued, I went to look at it. It’s based on Chromium (Google’s open-source code behind the Chrome browser) but has a whole different (better) approach to privacy. Interestingly, it […]
There’s so much great content being created today. It’s virtually impossible to keep up with the high quality “television” shows being broadcast and streamed. (Still, do yourself a favor and watch Orange is the New Black and Chernobyl at minimum.) It’s pretty much the same with podcasts. Fortunately, I have a reasonable amount of commuting, […]
I have been interested in computers and technology since junior high school, when my school acquired its first computer – a lonely RadioShack TRS-80, housed up in the library. Because I was a strong math student, I was selected as one of two kids from each class to visit with the computer a couple of […]