Joseph Jerome
@joejerome.com
Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com
"Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.”
This idea from @esquiring.bsky.social is totally doable but has minimal chance of being embraced by Meta.
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This idea from @esquiring.bsky.social is totally doable but has minimal chance of being embraced by Meta.
I really love when SVU does a tech episode. Here’s my take on RFID chips eight years ago: iapp.org/news/a/embed...
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I really love when SVU does a tech episode. Here’s my take on RFID chips eight years ago: iapp.org/news/a/embed...
Oh boy! Law & Order SVU turned into a Section 230 episode.
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Oh boy! Law & Order SVU turned into a Section 230 episode.
Jon Sallet from the Colorado AG discussing Google’s search dominance flywheel at an excellent lunch put on by @knightgtown.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Jon Sallet from the Colorado AG discussing Google’s search dominance flywheel at an excellent lunch put on by @knightgtown.bsky.social
Doing some cost-cutting. No reason.
September 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Doing some cost-cutting. No reason.
Google keeps chipping away at a nothingburger.
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Google keeps chipping away at a nothingburger.
Really interesting insight into how a jury thinks about Google’s privacy violations: www.mlex.com/mlex/data-pr...
September 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Really interesting insight into how a jury thinks about Google’s privacy violations: www.mlex.com/mlex/data-pr...
After 5 long years, a federal court found that Google had an unlawful monopoly and then did little to address it. Here’s DuckDuckGo’s statement from the other site:
September 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
After 5 long years, a federal court found that Google had an unlawful monopoly and then did little to address it. Here’s DuckDuckGo’s statement from the other site:
As we wait (and wait) for the Google search case to drop, I joined the ABA’s Trust and Trade podcast to talk about how licensing Google search modules is the best remedy to make search more competitive. traffic.libsyn.com/trustandtrad...
September 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As we wait (and wait) for the Google search case to drop, I joined the ABA’s Trust and Trade podcast to talk about how licensing Google search modules is the best remedy to make search more competitive. traffic.libsyn.com/trustandtrad...
The cherry on the top is the essay’s incorporation of Darth Vader’s approach to contract law.
August 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The cherry on the top is the essay’s incorporation of Darth Vader’s approach to contract law.
August 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Been hitting refresh all day, all week, all month. If you know, you know.
August 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Been hitting refresh all day, all week, all month. If you know, you know.
Gotta say I appreciate @mullvad.bsky.social’s advertising campaign in the belly of the tech beast.
August 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Gotta say I appreciate @mullvad.bsky.social’s advertising campaign in the belly of the tech beast.
So @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social has pretty much perfectly distilled why everyone outside tech probably wants AI regulated. podcast.techfreedom.org
August 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social has pretty much perfectly distilled why everyone outside tech probably wants AI regulated. podcast.techfreedom.org
Didn’t need no help with this clue on today’s NYT Mini.
August 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Didn’t need no help with this clue on today’s NYT Mini.
I’ve been super interested in how courts are looking at the amicus armies in tech competition cases. This footnote from the 9th Circuit in Epic v. Google on security considerations is interesting: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
July 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’ve been super interested in how courts are looking at the amicus armies in tech competition cases. This footnote from the 9th Circuit in Epic v. Google on security considerations is interesting: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
So @yegg13.bsky.social has a post on DuckDuckGo’s approach to design and UX for AI-assisted search. The examples are…interesting. gabrielweinberg.com/p/9-ways-duc...
July 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
So @yegg13.bsky.social has a post on DuckDuckGo’s approach to design and UX for AI-assisted search. The examples are…interesting. gabrielweinberg.com/p/9-ways-duc...
Whenever Meta talks about “creating and connecting,” I just think about Shrimp Jesus.
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Whenever Meta talks about “creating and connecting,” I just think about Shrimp Jesus.
Wish Prof. Newman was over here posting about antitrust, because this is a real banger:
July 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Wish Prof. Newman was over here posting about antitrust, because this is a real banger:
“What tech companies want is for the law to essential do nothing but incentivize profit,” argues @daniel-solove.bsky.social to @premmtrivedi.bsky.social at @newamerica.org.
July 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“What tech companies want is for the law to essential do nothing but incentivize profit,” argues @daniel-solove.bsky.social to @premmtrivedi.bsky.social at @newamerica.org.
AB 566 would require browsers to offer a GPC setting, which lets users convey an opt-out single. (Lots of browsers have this.) Full stop. Yet, if you read the Chamber’s report, it reads like targeted advertising is being banned. Why is that?
July 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
AB 566 would require browsers to offer a GPC setting, which lets users convey an opt-out single. (Lots of browsers have this.) Full stop. Yet, if you read the Chamber’s report, it reads like targeted advertising is being banned. Why is that?
Anyone remember V for Vendetta?
July 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Anyone remember V for Vendetta?