Megan Gray

Trouble ahead for bans on algorithmic pricing aka personalized pricing

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New Research: Search Happens Everywhere; an Analysis of 41 Websites with Significant Search Activity - SparkToro For 25 years, web search meant Google (and a little bit of Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo). But in the past 2.5 years, it's often expanded to include the

Fascinating new data on search in AI era

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LiveNation opening statements still haven’t started. Parties had a ton of evidentiary disputes overnight that judge had to review and rule on (and he was justifiably ticked). Kickoff in 15 min.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.

How CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

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The tv remote control was the first infinite scroll

Hit-and-run car crash in DC that hurt Rep. Baird and killed his wife (who died today) - but zero info on specific location - why the secrecy?

the economic experts (jurors with advanced education). Who does LiveNation try to pick off to prevent unanimous verdict? Will it be the French bank compliance woman who reads murder mysteries? Or the Jamaican USPS woman who reads the Bible? We”ll know in 6 weeks.

And we are off to the races in LiveNation trial!
12 jurors, no alternates (if one person drops out, not replaced). Must be unanimous verdict for liability (if liable, judge decides remedy). Only 2 men. Of the 10 women, 6 are white. Jury has 4 people who might understand the…

This is only the trial court 😎😃😉

Yeah sure let’s launch a war in the Middle East while the Department of Homeland Security is shut down, why not what could go wrong

Perplexity hiring Governance, Risk & Compliance Lead in San Francisco, CA | LinkedIn Posted 5:32:58 PM. Perplexity is seeking a highly experienced Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst to join our…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

Haven’t ever seen a company hate lawyers as much as Perplexity - which just bites them in the ass as shown by all the lawsuits

Here they are hiring “privacy and security and audit analyst”, no JD mentioned

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Possession is nine-tenths of the law

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Interesting! FTC settles ground-breaking privacy case against Kochava over geo-location data. but weirdly claims red tape in finalizing due to need to get Commission vote - when only 2 commissions, both Republican.

“DOJ issuing subpoena to independent government agency and recipient refusing to comply” was not on my bingo card for debate over whether independent agencies are actually part of executive branch.

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No doubt

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yikes

the genetic disclosure was due to acquisition, not breach or theft -- per the complaint

A health-tech firm was sued in novel class action that accuses it of illegally mining Illinois residents' genetic testing data to train its AI

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guerrilla teaching

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this is huge, why aren't more folks reporting on this?

FBI "Assessments" of political, academic, religous, and news media people: A First Amendment and Surveillance Nightmare

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Today at the doctor office: front desk informs me that it is now their policy to require that all patients keep a credit card on file for auto-payment.

Hell to the no, I respond.

😳😳😳

How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives

the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.

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This is how Trump establishes a mandatory national ID card

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Trump recently announced new judge noms and he wasn’t on the list

lol Perplexity still doesn't have a General Counsel but it is advertising for in-house senior patent lawyer

ironic that DuckDuckGo is never mentioned anywhere in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision (or appellate court or trial court) that blesses reverse keyword warrants (your Google searches), when DDG is headquartered in PA

note, the FTC issued another press release re "we sent ANPR to OIRA" in January 2026 -- this one on also-no-details-given rental housing fees

it's looking that Ferguson has been stymied in his judicial ambitions and will be at the FTC for the foreseeable future after all.

the FTC did the press release (in January 2026) because Chair Ferguson thought he might be gone -- headed to the bench as a judge -- by the time the FR published, and he wanted to be sure he got credit in the future for implementing a very popular rule.

Of course, now...

what the proposed rule actually says, so important that FTC doesn't want to wait 4 months or whatever. Internal political points already made (i.e., daddy trump) without public announcement. Actually, after mulling this, I think...

why the FTC would benefit from such an announcement. OIRA has to review within 90 days (with possible 30 day EOT) tho that can take longer if the FTC papers are revised. Still, why so important for the FTC to let the world know that it will be doing ANPRM without saying...