GDPR – Page 2 – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Facebook’s Platform Opportunity

Monday, February 3, 2020

Facebook is under pressure from all sides, but that actually means it has an opportunity to build the platform it has always wanted — in digital ads.

Portability and Interoperability

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Data portability is friendly to consumers, but it has very little to do with encouraging competition, at least relative to interoperability.

Privacy Fundamentalism

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

The current privacy debate is making things worse by not considering trade-offs, the inherent nature of digital, or the far bigger problems that come with digitizing the offline world.

HBO Max and Friends; British Airways, Marriott Hit with GDPR Fines; Zoom’s Vulnerability

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

HBO Max is AT&T’s new streaming service, and it is paying a lot for Friends. Then, the best part of GDPR has its intended effect, while Zoom shows that security still isn’t a priority

Chris Hughes Versus Facebook, Breaking Down Hughes Article, The Privacy Paradox

Monday, May 13, 2019

Breaking down the Chris Hughes article about breaking up Facebook: it’s better than you think. Plus, the fundamental paradox when it comes to arguments about regulating Facebook.

A Framework for Regulating Content on the Internet

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Regulators need to stop blindly regulating “the Internet” and instead understand that every part of the Internet stack is different, and only one part is suffering from market failure.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Proposal, The Copyright Directive and Sunk Costs, You Say You Want Some Regulation

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Recent regulation highlights why Mark Zuckerberg’s call for regulation was so self-serving. The place where regulators should actually start is advertising.

Senator Warren’s proposal about how to regulate tech is wrong about history, the source of tech giant’s power, and the fundamental nature of technology itself. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real problems — and potential solutions — though.

Distinguishing Regulation, Is the Internet Different?, Reasons for Skepticism

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Follow-up on The State of Technology in 2018: the different types of regulation, whether or not the Internet is different, and why consumer tech companies may be weaker than they seem.

Text Messaging in the United States; Google Earnings; Google, Facebook, and GDPR

Thursday, November 1, 2018

An anecdote about permanence and file systems, an explanation of how the U.S. text messaging market is unique, then an overview of Google’s earnings and why GDPR might be having an effect.

Google Being Google

Google Being Google

(Preview) Constructing US-China Stability; Trump’s Taiwan Comments and More Summit Takeaways; Putin in China

A Note on the Future of GOAT and An Emergency Top Five

Google I/O, World Models, I/O Spaghetti

Google Being Google

(Preview) Constructing US-China Stability; Trump’s Taiwan Comments and More Summit Takeaways; Putin in China

A Note on the Future of GOAT and An Emergency Top Five

An Interview with Joanna Stern About Living With AI

An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents