cyberinsider.com/precise-loca... This #databrooker business must be stopped. FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social

"In any given week, 0.15 percent of users “indicate potentially heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT” More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week. That’s 1.2 million people developing a potentially unhealthy bond to a chatbot" #AIEthics www.platformer.news/openai-menta...

"The ubiquity of #surveillance in the age of encryption is a policy choice. The reason [most] companies don’t encrypt our data so that they can’t use it against us is because they don’t have to. Congress hasn’t updated American consumer #privacy law since 1988" doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

A fascinating and, as ever, thought - provoking conversation with @carissaveliz.bsky.social by @kateoneill.bsky.social Give it a listen - it's absolutely worth it and will only take 30 minutes of your time: www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/30/d...

New episode: Dr. @carissaveliz.bsky.social on why privacy is power — and how to build AI that protects dignity and democracy. Listen: www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/25/d... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... open.spotify.com/show/1NSOUmN... #TheTechHumanistShow #PrivacyIsPower #AIEthics

Roomba should have been a warning.

Funny not funny #AIEthics

«La acusación de que si te preocupan las prácticas éticas es que estás en contra de la tecnología es pura retórica [...]. Hay que diseñar mejor la tecnología para que respete los derechos humanos». @carissaveliz.bsky.social sobre el abuso de poder en la era de las tecnologías digitales.

"What is it to track something if it's not to surveil it?" Leverhulme Fellow @carissaveliz.bsky.social highlights that to digitise is to surveil and how privacy can save your life. 🎬 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/how-pr...

"Privacy is important because it protects us from possible abuses of power. That makes it essential for both personal freedom and democracy. Without privacy, fundamental pillars of democracy like investigative journalism, attorney-client privilege, and fair elections fail" bsky.app/profile/cari...

📢 NEW: EPIC published a new report today that examines how state Attorneys General are advancing privacy enforcement across the U.S. (2020–2024). 220+ cases. 35 letters. 20 investigations. Read more: epic.org/state-ag-pri...

How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | Great TEDx by @carissaveliz.bsky.social | www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

How privacy can save your life. Great and hugely important talk by @carissaveliz.bsky.social Watch it using this privacy-enhanced embed. To maximise privacy with this player, make sure you're not logged into YouTube in the browser you use to watch. yt.axbom.com?id=xSPRouBvgFE

Incredible work by @lighthousereports.com (@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social and colleagues). Grateful to the investigative journalists who inform us. First Wap, a #surveillance company has "built a globe-spanning phone tracking empire, operating in the shadows" www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

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Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

A short but powerful talk by @carissaveliz.bsky.social about the dangers of digitizing everything and the importance of #privacy for democracy and freedom. (If you haven't read "Privacy is Power" yet, you should.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

Very important!

Dirás que no tienes nada que esconder que merezca la pena y que no vas a pagar por todo, total a cambio de unos datos que "no son importantes". Realmente te va tu democracia en ello 👇

Una estupenda charla donde se explica muy bien la relación entre democracia y privacidad, con una perfecta conclusión: depende de nosotros decidir cómo se desarrollan las herramientas.

Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

Are we growing tired of social media? Have we remembered that there are better ways to spend time (like reading good books)? #AIEthics By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a072...

For the #privacy nerds. In The Ethics of Privacy and #Surveillance (OUP 2024), I argue that animals value something like proto-privacy, and our need for privacy has evolved from a sense of territoriality. Article by @rossandersen.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Sin privacidad no hay democracia liberal. agendapublica.es/noticia/2023...

In a nutshell: AI creates sloppy work. We've all experienced it. So why do we remain so incredibly optimistic? And how about prioritizing the pursuit of excellence? #AIEthics hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

You are a citizen, not a subject. What would you like to do about AI? "A.I. isn’t an unstoppable tsunami about to overwhelm us. Now is the time for ordinary Americans to recognize our agency and act to put in place the guardrails we want." #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Will AI be the cause of worse science, or better science? #AIEthics www.nature.com/articles/d41...

art of what keeps us sane is other people's perspectives. Talking with chatbots isolates us. “When you say something questionable, others will challenge you. It can be annoying, but it keeps us tied to reality, and is the basis of a healthy democracy” #AIEthics www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on? Guess where that data looks like it will end up? In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it! Larry Ellison’s Oracle!! 10/

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

I hugely enjoyed being on this BBC AI Decided episode with the brilliant @dr-harebrain.bsky.social! #AIEthics

The BBC News AI Decoded episode: +200 prominent politicians & scientists, including 10 Nobel Prize winners & many leading AI researchers, have called for binding measures against dangerous uses of AI. cc: Christian Fraser, @marccieslak.bsky.social @carissaveliz.bsky.social lnkd.in/exsTXnFv

AI is stealing traffic to most content sites. It's interesting how our default is still to think that this technology is a positive. But which side of the argument should bear the burden of proof? #AIEthics www.economist.com/business/202...

“I don’t see why a man should take thirty pages to describe how he turns over in his bed before he goes to sleep.” A publisher rejecting Proust. Every academic - “Can you really do that properly in a mere 30 pages?”

Maybe more like: AI can’t raise the dead but it can do the next worst thing? #AIEthics

A better ruling would be to ban the unnecessary collection of personal data for profit. There are better business models for democracy than those based on #surveillance. #AIEthics www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

People are asking librarians to find books that don't exist... because the titles were fabricated by AI... Is that an efficient use of time and resources? #AIEthics www.404media.co/librarians-a...

#BigTech is unleashing #AI at an alarming pace, without considering the impacts. We're being flooded with AI slop and relying on AI tools that are patently unreliable. Today we discuss the ethics of AI with professor @carissaveliz.bsky.social podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/09/15/o...

Finally! Today's release of the highly anticipated @firewalldragons.bsky.social podcast episode featuring Professor @carissaveliz.bsky.social Discussing the ethical and philosophical principles—or lack thereof—that underpin the development and use of artificial intelligence. 🎧 ⤵️

Translation: Live translation is being done in a way that isn't great for #privacy. #AIEthics #Apple www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/a...

"I asked Peters if he knew his videos had been taken from YouTube to train AI. “I think everything’s gonna get stolen,” he told me. “Do I quit, or do I just keep making videos and hope people want to connect with a person?”" #AIEthics www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"We have been so afraid of being turned into paperclips, plugged into pods as human batteries, or having our skulls crushed under titanium feet, that we’ve missed the more insidious danger of farming out our art and creativity to algorithms." #AIEthics lithub.com/why-ai-narra...

#BigTech companies are too often creating products because they can without bothering to ask if they should. On Monday, I'll be speaking with my favorite philosophy professor @carissaveliz.bsky.social about the ethics of #artificial_intelligence. Subscribe: podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com

We sure are investing a lot of money on #AI, a technology that is proving to be, in some of its forms, quite unreliable. Is that wise? "The bigger the boom gets, the bigger the knock-on consequences of an AI chill could be." #AIEthics www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Just use Signal. "In the lawsuit (...) Attaullah Baig claimed that thousands of #WhatsApp and #Meta employees could gain access to sensitive user data including profile pictures, location, group memberships and contact lists." #privacy #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/t...

On smartwatches: a #privacy (and quantified) nightmare. "And it is not just location: Carissa Véliz, the author of Privacy Is Power, warns that with the right technology, heartbeat data can be as distinctive as a fingerprint." Thanks for the quote, @timharford.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/bc8d...

Catching up on news. Good news but... are Apple users able to turn on encryption for iCloud again? #AIEthics #privacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The history of Tor exemplifies the collective aspect of #privacy. We need privacy as a common project to ensure our safety, and responsible leaders in politics and the military understand this. #AIEthics thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-h...

Um... shouldn't young people be idealists wanting to make the world a better place? “Some dude could just find some girl’s home address on the train and just follow them home,” Nguyen told the tech news website. So, maybe don't build that? #AIEthics #privacy techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...

The sad part is how predictable it was, that misleading impersonators could lead to people losing their grip on reality. These chatbots are made to deceive... #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...