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To Fight Business ‘Enshittification’, Cory Doctorow Urges Tech Workers: Join Unions


Cory Doctorow has always warned that companies “enshittify” their services — shifting “as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves.” But this week Doctorow writes in Communications of the ACM that enshittification “would be much, much worse if not for tech workers,” who have “the power to tell their bosses to go to hell…”

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe’s landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans’ personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation. The changes proposed by the European Commission are part of a drive to simplify a slew of laws adopted in recent years on technology, environmental and financial issues which have in turn faced pushback from… Source link

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The European Commission is considering turning its non-binding 2020 guidance on “high-risk vendors” into a legal requirement that would effectively force EU member states to phase out Huawei and ZTE from mobile and fixed-line networks. Bloomberg reports: Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen wants to convert the European Commission’s 2020 recommendation to stop using high-risk vendors in mobile networks into a legal requirement, according to the people, who asked not… Source link

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