Janneke Parrish

A Neutered US National Labor Relations Board is a Win for Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press Under Trump, one of the few avenues to justice for workers impacted by Big Tech’s abuses will now likely be sealed off, writes Janneke Parrish.

There are very few practical avenues for tech workers in the United States to seek justice when Big Tech companies violate their rights, writes Janneke Parrish. Under Trump, one of the few avenues remaining—the National Labor Relations Board—will now likely be sealed off, she argues.

A Neutered US National Labor Relations Board is a Win for Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press Under Trump, one of the few avenues to justice for workers impacted by Big Tech’s abuses will now likely be sealed off, writes Janneke Parrish.

There are very few practical avenues for tech workers in the United States to seek justice when Big Tech companies violate their right. My experience suggests that, under Trump, one of the few avenues remaining—the NLRB—will now likely be sealed off. www.techpolicy.press/a-neutered-u...

US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after Donald Trump picks group’s lawyer for top job National Labor Relations Board freezes pair of disputes after Crystal Carey nominated as agency’s general counsel

Call it what it is: corruption. www.ft.com/content/ad7f...

Super excited to have published an article with the Amsterdam Law Forum about the universality of rights in the context of non-human animal rights law. Check it out! assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/d8b6f1f5-816...

Activism and the Autistic Sense of Justice w/ Janneke Parrish (Episode 26) | Autistic FM In this episode of Autistic FM, we're joined by Janneke Parrish, a formidable advocate and activist within the tech industry. Known for her courage in standing up for workers' rights, Janneke shares h...

I really enjoyed sitting down with Haje to chat about justice and labour organising. Check out our chat here! www.autistic.fm/c/episode/26

A crossword puzzle clue reading "_____ Together (Solidarity union of a major tech company's employees)"

You know you've made it as a movement when you're a crossword puzzle clue. <3

I was super excited to work on this research with @profschrepel.bsky.social tracking Margarethe Vestager's competition law legacy before the CJEU. Check out our findings below! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I do love how the tech oligarchs try the same, tired strategies to suppress workers, and they fail, over and over again.

It warms my heart to see it.

Hey, Apple users: if you install the latest iOS, iPadOS, or macOS updates, you’ll be automatically opted into “Apple Intelligence”. If you don’t want that running on your devices, you have to disable it in Settings.

(this is far from the most pressing thing happening today, but just a heads-up)

Trump fires senior labor board official in ‘unprecedented and illegal’ move Gwynne Wilcox pledges to challenge decision after dismissal in effect paralyzes National Labor Relations Board

This may not be the formal dissolution of the NLRB, but it looks suspiciously like the *effective* dissolution of the NLRB.

And that should terrify everyone in the labour space. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

That's a valid point, and you're not wrong that businesses do have a tendency to view fines as a cost of doing business. However, this precedent still exists, and is still meaningful, and will at least make a difference in the lives of the workers impacted by these (non)hiring decisions.

Mozilla Settles Case Over Its Refusal to Hire Apple Activist Mozilla Corp. has agreed to settle allegations it refused to hire a former Apple Inc. software engineer because of her prior labor activism.

This is absolutely fantastic news for all workplace activists and for Cher especially. I'm excited to see more steps that prevent the blacklisting of activists within the industries they seek to improve!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Arguing that the problem is doctors being overpaid is like saying the problem with climate change is that the beach is now too close to your house. Sure, that's true, but you're missing the much, much more pressing reality of the broken system.

What made the Anthem policy bad was not just that it would negatively impact health outcomes - because, let's be clear, it would - but that it was furthering the sheer bureaucracy of a dystopian system.

David Cutler on trimming U.S. healthcare costs | Harvard Magazine Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?

The insurance bureaucracy also means that doctors bill for individual services rather than visits, further driving up costs and yes, increasing the incentives for unnecessary tests and machines. www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/04/feat...

There's also the reality of what makes US healthcare so expensive. It isn't doctor salaries. It's the sheer bureaucracy of insurance and the cost it takes to uphold it. Roughly 33% of US healthcare spending is on the costs of insurance administration, a number that dwarfs other developed nations.

More forms, more time spent not seeing patients, more time not spent on individually billable activities, time spent asking for compensation, that - as we know from things like mental health care - will not come.

It's simpler to rush a surgery that threatens to go long than to spend time on forms.

But what the article is missing in arguing that Anthem's policy would have benefitted patients is the realities of what US healthcare looks like.

First, the argument that doctors could appeal if surgeries go over time misses that that is then even more paperwork doctors would have to do.

A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That’s bad. What the fight between Anthem and anesthesiologists was really about.

This is an absolutely wild take from Vox about Anthem's limits on anaesthesia.

The TL;DR is that American healthcare providers - and anaesthesiologists in particular - bill much higher than their equivalents in other countries, and this policy would have limited that. www.vox.com/policy/39003...

Memorandum Outlines U.S. Government’s Role in AI Development The memorandum provides guidance to government agencies—in coordination with the private sector—for responsible AI development.&nbsp;

@jannekeparrish.bsky.social, Megan Thomas, Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi break down the contents of and reactions to the “first-ever” National Security Memorandum on artificial intelligence, published by the Biden administration in October.

Memorandum Outlines U.S. Government’s Role in AI Development The memorandum provides guidance to government agencies—in coordination with the private sector—for responsible AI development.&nbsp;

Want to know more about the role of AI in US national security efforts? Check out this article I co-wrote with Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi and Megan Thomas! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/memo...

It was an absolute treat being on The Good Robot! Check it out!

All this is to say that I spent an hour today filing DMCA notices against a site that scraped my vegan recipe blog and reposted its contents, then posted them all again to Bluesky. So thanks, content thieves. You stole my content and an hour of my life. But you'll never steal my heart. <3

By my understanding, you're responsible for the conduct of your thiefbot, but it's an interesting little gap in the law. If the design of the system is such that you're ingesting too much content to reasonably know whether you've stolen it, and those you steal from can't check, did you steal at all?

But suppose you have your own small platform, and send a bot out to scrape things from the internet. Some are copyrighted, some are not, but you don't really care. You're not looking at any of it, and are just posting all of it.

Is that knowledge? Are you liable or not?

Once made aware, though, they gain liability if they allow the content to persist, or take no action to remove it. This is why DMCA takedown notices are so powerful - a big company like Youtube or Tiktok doesn't want to monitor every piece of content, and so removes first and asks questions later.

Here's a fun #techlaw problem that's on my mind today:

For a company to be held liable for illegal content on their platform, they must be aware of it. Since platforms don't police everything their users post, they have plausible deniability, and thus no liability, at least until told (1/)

I know it's the rule that a company needs investment to survive, but I'd really, really prefer the investment in this site didn't come from crypto enthusiasts. We need a platform that isn't destructive for everyone involved, and it seems like a pipe dream bsky.social/about/blog/1...
#bluesky #crypto

Hey Texans! Starting 1 January, hospitals in #Texas are required to ask patients' citizenship status.

You are under no obligation to answer.

I highly recommend that everyone, regardless of their citizenship status, not answer. Mess up their data. Protect fellow Texans.