Research from Consumer Reports on People-Search remove services in the US
We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. - While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car seats, and other heavily regulated product categories, the most common product category restricted by Amazon in our study was books.
Press freedom organisation Free Press Unlimited will delete its account on the messaging platform X (formerly Twitter) as of December 1. The organisation, which advocates for press freedom and journalist safety, no longer wishes to be part of a social medium that amplifies hate speech and disinformation.
Academic paper analyzing the technosolutionist aspect of the development of the contact tracing app in the Netherlands
A good analysis of the federation of Bluesky compared to Mastodon