Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️

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Journo. She/Her. Multilingual. Mainly writing about tech & antitrust | media biz | data privacy
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Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️May 27, 2025
I guess we're headed to our Black Mirror reality much faster than anyone thought
https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides/114484133223458047
Privacy Guides (@[email protected])

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his ambitious plan for the World project, formerly known as Worldcoin. https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/ #Worldcoin #WorldProject #SamAltman #OpenAI #Privacy #Biometrics #Cryptocurrency #AI #PrivacyGuides #Article

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Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️May 27, 2025

Maybe if so much tech lobbying dating back to the CCPA hadn't institutionalized opt-out without data disgorgement, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place?  

If the problem is that not all nations will regulate text+data mining the same way, maybe push for a global new standard?  

#generativeAI #dataprivacy #copyright

https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Meta’s former head of global affairs Nick Clegg said asking for permission from rights owners to train models would is “implausible.”

The Verge
Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️May 10, 2025

Great story by Ashley Belanger in @arstechnica

This is what I want to know about the 'race of AI': how it really just shows Gen AI doesn't have a business case unless it further weakens our control over the information we bear the cost to produce and maintain on the open web, and that there are indeed people out there who see this clearly and take a stance on it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Ars Technica
Show threadKarina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Apr 29, 2025
Google has essentially explained that if other browser competitors/rival search engines can't supposedly match Google's security expertise or effectiveness, it's because they lack scale. Why? Because of Google's monopoly on search.
Show threadKarina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Apr 29, 2025

Google has a monopoly over search. The only reason why Chrome gives such a great visibility of what happens on the web is bc of that monopoly. Security teams can build better defenses based on that exact advantage: Google's scale, which it gained by breaking antitrust law.

So, in conclusion:

Show threadKarina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Apr 29, 2025

Per Adkins, Google's ability to defend Chrome comes from the fact that Chrome gives them "visibility of what happens in the web." That visibility is so vast that Chrome can alert users about malicious webs in ways other browsers can't. That was her way of conveying that only Google can protect Chrome.

What Adkins doesn't say (obviously) is that these cybersecurity capabilities hide behind a circular argument:

Show threadKarina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Apr 29, 2025

In ref Chrome spin-off, Google's examination conveys to the judge 1) Bad actors attack Chrome & Google thinks potential buyers cannot defend it, 2) there are "a lot of things" Google does in security that a Chrome buyer won't get, 3) same thing would happen with Android.

Now, something very important to note here:

Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Apr 29, 2025

Quick update from #USvGoogle remedies trial:

Heather Adkins (Google VP Cybersecurity) testified about the 'very difficult, very dedicated work' & talent it takes to build & maintain Google's security architecture and to protect user data.

TLDR: The rest of the cybersecurity market provides a subpar service for Google. No news there.

However...

Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Apr 29, 2025

Thank God I learned to drive a stick in a 1998 Kia (advantages of an elder millennial growing up in South America). At this point I honestly see myself going back to a basic, cruise control-free car  

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/114421727323680982

The New Oil (@[email protected])

#Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government #Surveillance, Police Records Show https://www.wired.com/story/police-records-car-subscription-features-surveillance/ #privacy

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Karina Montoya 📰🔎✈️Apr 29, 2025

It's week 2 of #googlesearch remedies trial 🇺🇸

I'll miss the DOJ resting its case this morning but will be back for Google's first witness: Heather Adkins, Google VP of Cybersecurity (part of the session might be closed).

🆕 👩🏾‍💻 In the meantime, if you need to catch up, here's my recap of week 1 #digitalmarkets #search #googlemonopoly

https://www.techpolicy.press/analyzing-week-one-of-google-searchs-antitrust-remedies-trial/

Analyzing Week One of Google Search's Antitrust Remedies Trial | TechPolicy.Press

Karina Monotoya analyzes the first week of the Google Search antitrust remedies trial.

Tech Policy Press