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What data does Spotify hold about you?

Last week I read a very interesting Twitter thread by Jack Edwards in which he made a subject data request to Spotify. Amongst all the data about your listening habits there’s a file called inferences.json, which contains a trove of Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 week5 days ago
Blockchain

What do you buy when you buy an NFT?

On March 23, the technology sections of several news websites reported the same story. “Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet sells for $2.9m” said the BBC. “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sells first tweet as an NFT for $2.9M”, wrote CNET. The Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 weeks2 weeks ago
Off-topic

One year with Long Covid

“I am now the person who is alert to every twinge or mark anywhere on me. I am getting to know this person. This is not me This is me” Michael Rosen, Going Home I never thought that I would Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 4 weeks4 weeks ago
Blockchain

Copyfraud and copyright infringement in NFTs

Here we go again. I was seriously planning not to blog again about non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and instead concentrate on writing a full academic paper about the subject, but events have overtaken us, and it seems like a day in Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 4 weeks2 weeks ago
Blockchain

Can copyright teach us anything about NFTs?

If you have been reading any technology and art news in the last week, you may have come across the newest hype in the world of distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies, and it is the sudden rise of the non-fungible token Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 month2 weeks ago
Regulation

GameStop, Musk, and the threat to decentralization

One of my favourite phrases from Gabriel García Márquez can be found in The Autumn of the Patriarch, and reads: “El día que la mierda tenga algún valor, los pobres nacerán sin culo.” (The day shit has any value, the Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 months ago
Regulation

Trump, Parler, and the internet regulation fallout

The events of last week require no introduction. The world looked in shock as the QAnon-MAGA mob stormed the US Capitol, disrupting the certification process for the US election. Disbelief, anger, sadness, in some circles. In others glee at the Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 3 months3 months ago
Image rights

Revamp image rights to fight deepfakes

If you are paying attention to technology news, you may have come across deepfakes. In case you haven’t, a deepfake has become an umbrella term for various types of image and video manipulation in which a realistic computer rendering of Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 3 months3 weeks ago
Data protection

Make the Web Great Again

After the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the entire world changed the way in which airport security was conducted. Some of the features made sense: sturdier metal detectors and more baggage scanners. But we also started seeing an increase Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 5 months5 months ago
Regulation

Time to decolonise the Internet

During my university years in Costa Rica, I used to be quite involved in student politics. You know, the usual stuff, marches, protesting, political parties, advocacy, but mostly sitting around talking about politics at the Law School’s cafeteria. I used Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 7 months2 months ago

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