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Josh O'Kane

@joshokane
8 posts
2024-11-20
This is a fantastic dive into Google's obsession with secrecy — a principle established even before its IPO, but which was formalized 15 years ago in ways just being revealed in its many legal battles https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-11-20 View on X
New York Times

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits

Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.

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2023-10-26
“I have to wonder whether the smaller labels will see any point in keeping their music on Spotify. Streaming services ... have a reputation for pushing listeners toward music that's already massively popular, & it seems that this new arrangement will only increase that tendency.”
2023-10-26 View on X
Music Business Worldwide

Sources: Spotify plans major changes to its royalty model in Q1 2024, including a threshold of minimum annual streams before a track starts generating royalties

This is huge news - and it's been a long time coming.  MBW has confirmed that Spotify is planning to make significant changes …

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2023-04-19
Assisted @SeanSilcoff on this story about traffic-tech company Miovision's latest funding round, which unites two of the keenest students of Sidewalk Labs's failure in TO - @kurtismcbride + @ruffoloj - for a much leaner, nimbler attempt at “smart cities” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ...
2023-04-19 View on X
Globe and Mail

Canada-based Miovision, whose AI manages cities' traffic flows, acquires Global Traffic Technologies for $107M, after raising $150M from Maverix, Telus, and EDC

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2021-02-04
The federal and three provincial privacy commissioners have found Clearview AI's facial recognition tech to constitute mass surveillance, and say “commercial organizations” used it, but don't clearly name which: https://www.priv.gc.ca/...
2021-02-04 View on X
New York Times

Canada's privacy authority says what Clearview AI does is mass surveillance, calls it illegal and unacceptable, and tells it to delete citizens' facial images

Canadian authorities declared that the company needed citizens' consent to use their biometric information, and told the firm to delete facial images from its database.

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2020-08-13
great summary here of the long and winding collapse of the Sidewalk Labs / Quayside / Waterfront Toronto project, by @BrianJBarth: https://onezero.medium.com/...
2020-08-13 View on X
OneZero

A look at how Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs' bet on making Toronto a smart city failed, driven by intense resistance from residents and civic leaders

Alphabet bet big in Toronto.  Toronto didn't play along.  —  October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke … Tweets: @dlberes , @ozm , @yeahyeahyasmin , @ozm , @davege...

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2020-05-08
Sidewalk Labs pitched Toronto on building the city of the future. Instead, it was met with two and a half years of controversy over its origins, overreach, and privacy and financial implications. Now the project is cancelled. An obituary for a dream: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ...
2020-05-08 View on X
BetaKit

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”

Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto.  The company noted the decision was due to the current …

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2019-11-01
A deal down to the wire: Waterfront Toronto didn't get a final sign-off on new smart-city terms from Sidewalk until mid-afternoon Wednesday, after talks stalled over how much land Sidewalk could work with. Now for 5 more months of scrutiny. Our final: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ...
2019-11-01 View on X
Globe and Mail

Waterfront Toronto agrees to move forward on Alphabet Sidewalk's smart city proposal but with government control over data collection and limits on scale

Waterfront Toronto will move forward with a proposal for Sidewalk Labs to build a high-tech community on the city's waterfront …

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the early news story: After months of negotiations, Waterfront Toronto's board has approved exploring a smart-city project much closer to what Sidewalk was contracted for, but much smaller than the company's June ambitions https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ...
2019-11-01 View on X
Globe and Mail

Waterfront Toronto agrees to move forward on Alphabet Sidewalk's smart city proposal but with government control over data collection and limits on scale

Waterfront Toronto will move forward with a proposal for Sidewalk Labs to build a high-tech community on the city's waterfront …

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