• Senators Introduce a Bipartisan Bill to Prevent “Dark Patterns”

    Senators Introduce a Bipartisan Bill to Prevent “Dark Patterns”

    Senators Mark Warner (D-Virginia) and Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) have introduced legislation to ban “dark pattern” tactics, which are designed to trick users into handing over access to their data. Before I get into what that means, I’d like to point out that this bill is being proposed by a Democrat and a Republican. Why is…

  • ICYMI: We’ve Got All the News from Google Cloud Next ’19

    ICYMI: We’ve Got All the News from Google Cloud Next ’19

    For the past several years, Google Cloud has hosted an annual developer conference which is mostly focused on their growing enterprise business. Cloud Next ’19 kicked off on Tuesday and you may not be surprised to learn that the announcements are mostly focused on developer services and infrastructure. One of the ways that they’re doing…

  • Microsoft Claims that FCC Data on Broadband Coverage is Wrong

    Microsoft Claims that FCC Data on Broadband Coverage is Wrong

    If you live in a rural part of the United States, there is a good chance that you don’t have broadband internet. Which, rightfully so, seems preposterous. It is 2019, after all, so why doesn’t this kind of technology exist everywhere? In fact, this kind of technology seems a bit “basic” today. Whereas 10 years…