June 30, 2024
Target Tries to Shake Off ‘Pandemic Hangover’ as Sales Slump
After seeing revenues surge during the pandemic, Target has been facing tough times. A report Sunday (June 30) by the Financial Times (FT) examines the retailer’s recent struggles: sales have...
June 28, 2024
This Week in Web3: Mt Gox Bitcoin and Crypto’s Future
The 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox served as one of the first, big crypto scandals. Over 100,000 creditors of the digital asset exchange lost over $9.4 billion worth of bitcoin...
June 25, 2024
FTX Seeks OK to Pay Customers Back in Cash
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX is set to ask permission to repay customers in cash. As Reuters reported Tuesday (June 25), the company will ask a judge to allow its customers to vote...
June 02, 2024
Reimbursement Backlash Forces Hemsley Out at UK’s Payment Systems Regulator
The managing director of Great Britain’s Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) is reportedly stepping down. As Bloomberg News noted in a report Saturday (June 1), Chris Hemsley’s departure comes amid rising...
May 27, 2024
Network Neutrality as Governance Seam
This essay explores how network neutrality leverages friction-in-design of the Internet’s layered architecture to constrain the ability of network providers to exercise control over user activities, otherwise enabled by their...
May 20, 2024
UK Fraud Proposal Has ‘Significant Problems,’ Minister Says
A British treasury official has reportedly criticized proposed fraud reimbursement measures for banks and FinTechs. The plan would require those companies to repay fraud victims as much as 415,000 pounds...
May 15, 2024
British Payments Sector Protests Fraud Reimbursement Rules
The U.K. payments sector is protesting the government’s plan to have companies reimburse fraud victims. Dozens of members of the Payments Association have written to the British economic secretary to...
January 31, 2024
Who Controls Your Phone: Client-Side Scanning and the Future of...
This article examines the intersection of technology, privacy, and ownership, discussing client-side scanning (“CSS”), where a user’s smartphone scans its owner’s files, text messages, and photos for unlawful material, with...
January 08, 2024
Czech Billionaire’s Consortium Gains EU Approval for Takeover of France’s...
A consortium led by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has secured approval from the European Union’s antitrust authorities to assume control of the debt-laden French supermarket giant, Casino. The announcement came...