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The spam texters are getting slightly more creative

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

More than 2 years ago, Italy "hit Clearview AI with a 20 million-euro fine and demanded it delete all the personal data it had collected in Italy. But the fine was never collected and the data remains undeleted because of a lack of international agreement on enforcement." iapp.org/news/a/gps-2...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Fruit Loops in Canada vs. in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b... And now let's pretend the Fruit Loops are your privacy protections, where the differences are just as stark...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

For anyone looking to learn more about facial recognition, I highly recommend @kashhill.bsky.social’s 2023 book Your Face Belongs to Us. It’s an extraordinarily relevant read around surveillance capitalism and removing privacy rights under the guise of security.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I talked to @penamerica.bsky.social about the journalists and scholars who have informed my writing about tech and power: @kashhill.bsky.social, @juliaangwin.com, @emilymbender.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and others who aren't on here. pen.org/vauhini-vara...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

One of these is not like the others

submitted 24 days ago • 73 comments

When tariffs cause consumer prices to start rising, the "Low Buy 2025" movement may gain some new adherents. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Did White Lotus edit a Duke shirt out of the most recent episode? Reddit is on it: www.reddit.com/r/TheWhiteLo...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

When tech companies' appeals processes are broken, it takes intervention of a journalist to get a problem fixed: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Trump fires Democrat FTC Commissioners— Alvaro Bedoya & Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. The FTC is the federal agency in charge of consumer protection and closest thing U.S. has to a privacy protection agency. There are usually 5 commissioners, 2 from opposing party: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/t...

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 41 days ago • 1689 comments

I love how @davidenrich.bsky.social, one of the greats, opens his new book on the important role the media play and how much harder that job is getting.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Not only did I go to Duke. I have a tropical beach trip coming up with two of my female classmates. This season of White Lotus is a real masochistic watch.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

After a 3 month trial, the Anchorage Police Department is not moving forward w/ Axon's Draft One product which uses body camera audio and AI to generate narrative police reports because they found it was NOT a time saver--Axon's biggest marketing talking point.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

In what must be the spiciest Daily episode in its history, Natalie Kitroeff and I talk about love (and sex) with an AI chatbot: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/p...

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

People always asking me on book tour how much facial recognition technology helps police. Officers told me it's hugely beneficial when used correctly (i.e., along w/other evidence). New research support those claims: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... via www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Strange timing to see this as I just started @kashhill.bsky.social's Your Face Belongs to Us today. I'm only a couple chapters in but, uh, I'm already unsettled by this company's work.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

New: Clearview AI's CEO Hoan Ton-That has resigned. After he led the company through controversy and lawsuits, the company struggled to secure big federal contracts. Now, Clearview is focused on selling to the Trump border effort and the Pentagon. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting news: Clearview founder Hoan Ton-That stepping down and board member Hal Lambert, Texan investor who created the MAGA ETF, stepping in as co-CEO, promising lots of federal contracts to come under the new administration

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

When Musk took over Twitter, strategy was to cut deep on staff & costs knowing essential workers and infra would be lost along the way & need to be brought back. The risk was that the site would go down. With DOGE, it's same playbook. But what'll it look like if essential parts of gov go down?

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

In the world of privacy coverage, there has always been a central question of who is a greater threat to it: the government or corporate America. Now with DOGE, the two are merged into one: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 68 days ago • 7 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 71 days ago • 69 comments

Politics not usually a topic of discussion at kids’ soccer games but it was yesterday. Not all federal government employees are in DC (think VA employees) and their lives are chaos right now.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate. And if you are marking with holiday with an AI partner, I want to hear about it: [email protected] or @kash_hill.02 on Signal 😍🤖

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

A terrifying story of where we might be headed. Read to the end.

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

This is the first of these stories I've seen. Police in trouble for using face recognition tool Clearview AI, but not because it identified the wrong person. They relied on it solely in getting a search warrant; judge threw out incriminating evidence as a result www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

I bought the Brick magnet to turn my phone into a dumb phone for most of the day. On the one hand I hate that I had to spend $60 for a fancy magnet to untether myself from my phone/social media & on the other, my screen time is down to ~1 hr per day & I'm reading a ton more (all of which is a win)

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

And I'll never get sick of the "what happens when teens give up their phones" stories. Part of what I love about them is that everything the teens are "guilty" is the same for adults. Teens! They're just like us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFis...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Charging this puppy up to make sure it still works for Flip Phone February. (If you make up a movement, you gotta follow through on it: www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/t...)

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

EV owners starting to be charged registration fees by states to make up for the fact that they're not paying road taxes when paying for gasoline. Would be fairer to charge based on miles driven but that runs into the privacy issue: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/b...

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

There are some funny parts too, I swear.

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments