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Lessig on how the economics of data-retention will drive privacy tech
In an interview with the WSJ's CIO blog, Lawrence Lessig proposes that the existence of cryptographic tools that allow for "zero-knowledge" data-querying, combined with the potential liability from...
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Harvard Business Review: Stop paying executives for performance
Two business-school researchers have published a literature survey in the Harvard Business Review that makes the case against using performance-pay to motivate senior managers. (more…)
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Home Depot might pay up to $0.34 in compensation for each of the 53 million...
In 2014, Home Depot disclosed a security breach of 53 million customer credit cards and 56 million email addresses. This week the company settled a class action lawsuit and agreed to pay as much as...
View ArticleCryptojacking malware discovered running on critical infrastructure control...
Radiflow reports that they discovered cryptojacking software -- malware that mines cryptocurrency -- running in the monitoring and control network of an unnamed European water utility, the first such...
View ArticleResearch shows that patent examiners are more likely to grant patents to...
In their National Bureau of Economic Research working paper From Revolving Doors to Regulatory Capture? Evidence from Patent Examiners (Sci-Hub Mirror), Business School profs Haris Tabakovic (Harvard)...
View ArticleAll the economists who told the FTC we shouldn't break up Big Tech are paid...
From the Open Markets Institute's Mat Stoller and Austin Frederick, who analyzed the FTC's panel, "The Current Economic Understanding of Multi-Sided Platforms," in which economic experts told the...
View ArticleSelf-insurer Walmart flies its sick employees to out-of-state specialists to...
Walmart self-insures its workforce, rather than relying on an outside insurer like Cigna or Blue Cross; this means that it gets to make judgment calls that other firms cannot, and that has led the...
View ArticleWisconsin commissioned an independent report on how to fix the Foxconn deal....
In 2017, Trump and then-Wisconsin Governor (and Koch darling) Scott Walker announced that they would give Chinese manufacturing giant $3B in taxpayer subsidies to open the only flat panel display...
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How "meritocracy" went from a joke to a dogma, and destroyed the lives of...
The term "meritocracy" was coined in Michael Young's satirical 1958 novel, "The Rise of Meritocracy," where it described a kind of self-delusion in which rich people convinced themselves that their...
View ArticleThe DoJ's corporate "diversion" program is supposed to change bad corporate...
When a corporation is investigated for malfeasance -- cheating or hurting customers or workers, say -- the DoJ sometimes allows it to enter in a deferred prosecution agreement (DPAs) or a...
View ArticlePodcast: False Flag
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Green European Journal short story about the terrible European Copyright Directive which passed last March, False Flag. Published in December 2018, the story...
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