David Choffnes

Tech Brief: Airplane Response

Are airlines moving toward individualized pricing? We have reasons to be skeptical about their responses so far.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institute/insights/tech-brief-airplane-response/

11.08.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Photo of organizers for PR2 workshop, with intro slide on the screen behind them.

Kicking off our workshop on Policy-Relevant Privacy Reseach (PR2), colocated with @PET_Symposium
2025 in DC: https://pr2.technologypolicyworkshop.org

With Athina Markopoulou and Zubair Shafiq

14.07.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection) The telecom industry (with the help of the recent Trump Supreme Court), has been drooling for months at the prospect that the Trump-stocked courts would soon finally deliver the killing blow to FCC…

I wrote about how the Trumplican court attack on net neutrality is about way more than just "net neutrality"

It's about completely dismantling whatever's left of already feckless U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection

03.01.2025 18:43 — 👍 358    🔁 137    💬 9    📌 6

net neutrality - Google Search

let's play a game

find me an article on today's net neutrality ruling that mentions corruption exists

or that harmful telecom monopolies exist

or that mindlessly taking a hatchet to popular consumer protections isn't populist

or that the telecom lobby spends $320k A DAY lobbying government

02.01.2025 21:28 — 👍 359    🔁 106    💬 6    📌 2

I mean, this is a terrible (if unsurprising) decision, but I'm left wondering how Brendan Carr is going to still try to claim regulatory authority over social media companies...

There is no possible consistency between "ISPs can throttle and block, but edge services cannot..."

02.01.2025 20:11 — 👍 120    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 0

Is your phone surreptitiously listening to you? Probably not: it doesn't need to. I discussed this and more with Clare Duffy (CNN) on Terms of Service: https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/9f25f50c-96cf-11ef-aa1b-2f5b86b83293

19.11.2024 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Original post on discuss.systems

My colleagues and I found a confluence of invasive web tracking and gig worker signups leading to SSN data being sent to Meta and TikTok, from Uber and Lyft driver signup forms. It’s been fixed by the latter two, but the peril of web form tracking remains. More details about this story of four […]

15.11.2024 23:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The IMC Steering Committee is soliciting site proposals for IMC 2026! Preference is for locations outside of North America, for more details, see this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ly3CJS5qJHdpU5ZwemYrEiXe_PfFUvM3Xpbkj6-q-ww/edit?usp=sharing

15.11.2024 16:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0