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FTC sued by firm allegedly selling sensitive data on abortion clinic visits (Ars Technica)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 08/18/2022 - 16:28Man who built an internet service provider instead of paying Comcast $50,000 expands to hundreds of homes
Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home Internet provider because he couldn't get good broadband service from AT&T or Comcast, is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government money. In January 2021, Mauch was providing service to about 30 rural homes including his own with his internet service provider (ISP), Washtenaw Fiber Properties LLC.
How Tor is fighting—and beating—Russian censorship (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 13:36South Carolina lawmakers want to banish abortion talk from the Internet (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 16:30TikTok resists calls to preserve Ukraine content for war crime investigations (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 16:58Russian ‘hacktivists’ are causing trouble far beyond Ukraine (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 06:24US carriers want to bring “screen zero” lock screen ads to smartphones (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 15:25Google hit with more privacy complaints for “deceptive” sign-up process (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 13:34Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000
When Zachary Cohn and his wife bought a house in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle (WA), they didn't expect any trouble getting home Internet service. It was only after closing on the house in July 2019 that they learned the bad news. "All six neighbors I share a property line with are wired for Comcast, but our house never was," Cohn said. Comcast had wired up the neighborhood with cable decades earlier and provides high-speed broadband to the abutting properties.