This Week In Techdirt History: January 19th - 25th
Five Years Ago
This week in 2015, newly released documents from the Snowden leak revealed how the UK's GCHG collected emails from journalists and used compromised hardware to get data from iPhones,...
Bosch Files a Patent for Digital Payments on IOTA
Patent filings pertaining to blockchain technology tend to generate a lot of buzz. Bosch, a well-respected company, is now filing a patent for a digital payment system on IOTA.
Most people know that ...
Startups Weekly: Tech layoffs spread (a bit)
Are January layoffs just a few post-WeWork jitters?
TechCrunch has found itself writing about layoffs at a few notable tech companies this week — and not just Softbank-backed ones. The focus is very...
How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime
While conceived of and functioning differently in diverse contexts, ‘face’ describes a phenomenon that exists in every human society. Its most basic sense concerns the public presentation and perc...
Jeff Bezos and the Real Cost of the Washington Post
This week’s blockbuster revelations about the possible role of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in the hacking of Jeff Bezos’ phone was a literal eye-popper of a story. It raised so many troubling qu...
