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just normatively (and even legally) if a man not wearing identification and not bearing a warrant tries to jam you in the back of an unmarked van, you are fully justified in ventilating his skull. the way this program is being conducted is insanely dangerous to ICE agents.

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bit.ly/4kqYHGS

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Oh hey, what did I write two years ago? Yup. www.techdirt.com/2023/05/24/s...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Google just quietly killed its 7-year plan to kill third-party cookies. A strategic U-turn of historic proportions—and a blow to web privacy. It’s not just a product change. Let's hope it's not a sign of impending privacy deterioration. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/google-wont-...

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

Meta is a bunch of separate data extraction schemes in a trench coat pretending to be a company that actually does something.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

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Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

submitted 55 days ago • 38 comments

This regime doesn’t care about anti-semitism. It allows white nationalists to define anti-semitism and then uses that def to justify an authoritarian crackdown on universities they don’t like. And when they’re done, when we see the charred landscape, guess who they (& others) will blame: the Jews.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Tech is not neutral—most absurd assertion, see all STS scholarship. We build tools that embed our values and choice to unleash and in what contexts. Excited for the release of @rcalo.bsky.social brilliant new book on method in law and tech scholarship.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Today is World Press Freedom Day. The US is now ranked 57th in the world for press freedom — and that is rapidly declining as Trump continues to attack journalism. Democracy needs a strong, free press to survive.

submitted 45 days ago • 18 comments

I along with other privacy scholars have been warning of this privacy dystopia for decades. And it's here! I long for a world where privacy scholars can stop singing the chorus of "I told ya so." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them.

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This is so true! The way tech is used as a tool is always political.

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There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

submitted 122 days ago • 253 comments

To be clear, Germany is cracking down on a Neo-Nazi party, and the US government is defending the Neo-Nazi party

submitted 46 days ago • 214 comments

By the way, it is actually quite possible to write about Trump’s unspeakably insulting and narcissistic behavior towards the late Pope and all Catholics without sharing his infuriating picture millions of times.

submitted 46 days ago • 93 comments

The thing about surveillance states is that it doesn't matter if you follow the rules: the sheer amount of information collected on you makes it easy to manufacture guilt

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“Do not mock us.”

submitted 45 days ago • 3045 comments

⚠️ Privacy nightmare: Recall AI returns — oh hell no! 😡🚨 🖼️ Screenshots every 3s 🔍 Local storage = data snoop 🚫 Privacy risk off the charts 🛑 Disable Recall NOW! #Recall #Privacy #AI #Security www.thestreet.com/technology/m...

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CDT's Elizabeth Laird: "Providing gratuitous access to highly sensitive personal data poses a grave threat to people. That’s why just this week another court blocked this request."

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I was quoted in this WaPo article on Sam Altman's U.S. launch of World ID, a misguided blockchain / crypto scheme to scan everyone's retina for for the stated purpose of "Proving You are Human" in an AI-driven world. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... #privacy #privacyengineering #world

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Former senior DOJ attorney: Trump has pardoned fraudsters who had been ordered to repay about $1 billion in restitution. Now they don’t have to pay. Such a budding kleptocracy.

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Chris Krebs is speaking at the end of a panel at RSA right now and going off on Trump admin cuts to CISA, getting applause: "Right now to see what's happening to the cybersecurity community inside the federal government, we should be outraged. Absolutely outraged....Make CISA great again."

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Trump cancels aid to other countries. MAGA: yeah! Why should we send money over there when people here are suffering? Trump cancels Americorp volunteers, who build houses for disabled vets, respond to disasters, dig wells for the poor. MAGA: yeah! Why should we help people here who are suffering!

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

submitted 50 days ago • 172 comments

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

submitted 53 days ago • 329 comments

A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 53 days ago • 311 comments

It’s embarrassing enough that IAPP invited Sam Altman to keynote their conference. It’s even more embarrassing that they couldn’t even get him to go in-person. This is so unserious for the privacy profession lol

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It’s not deporting, if you’re sending citizens to another country. It’s human trafficking. In this case, it’s also slave labor. You’re talking about an administration selling US citizens into slave labor.

submitted 70 days ago • 48 comments

We're going to need a whole research team to figure out this administration's death toll

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Spotted on the National Mall today. #HandsOff #Privacy

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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

submitted 74 days ago • 308 comments

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

submitted 73 days ago • 685 comments

The reason the IRS has no data-leaking API is not because they don't know how to schedule a "hackathon." Instead it's because the API: 1. Likely violates the Privacy Act of 1974 2. Is not within the IRS's mandate 3. Would be a huge target for attacks against the privacy of all Americans

submitted 73 days ago • 10 comments

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