https://doc.searls.com/2024/05/10/personal-vs-personalized/
Personal AI is personal. It isn’t personalized. Context: There is a war going on. Humanity and nature are on one side, and Big Tech is on the other. The...
personalized aidoc searlsvsweblog
https://doc.searls.com/the-adblock-war/
Below are blog posts, articles and essays I’ve written toward four goals in fighting surveillance of our private spaces online by the tracking-based...
doc searlspeoplevsadtechweblog
https://doc.searls.com/2025/09/11/privacy-is-a-contract/
In the natural world, privacy is a social contract: a tacit agreement that we respect others’ private spaces. We guard those spaces with the privacy tech...
is adoc searlsprivacycontractweblog
https://doc.searls.com/2025/11/12/had-a-couple-visitors-today/
She’s a big mother. Here she is with her almost-grown child, in the corner of our side yard: I watched them through our back door (the first shot) and...
a coupledoc searlsvisitorstodayweblog
https://doc.searls.com/2025/11/24/a-new-era-begins/
Imagine no more cookie notices. Imagine no more Internet of Nothing But Accounts. Imagine no more surveillance panopticons. Imagine no more privacy in the...
a new eradoc searlsbeginsweblog
https://doc.searls.com/2024/06/30/the-personal-internet/
—is not this: By now we take it for granted. To live your digital life on the Internet, you need accounts. Lots of them. Everything on the Internet that...
the personaldoc searlsinternetweblog