No, no it cannot. Looks like we need to re-up our paper @jevan.bsky.social

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud compute market. They’re getting rich off the AI gold rush. In new work with @nathanckim.bsky.social, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵 📄PDF: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

I'm delighted to share that my article, AI and Doctrinal Collapse, is forthcoming in Stanford Law Review! Draft at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

Judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable members

Excellent scoop by @eileenguo.bsky.social! This is a timely reminder: always keep private data off public sites. If it's out there, it will likely be harvested. Prioritise your online privacy and think twice before oversharing. #PII #Privacy #Cybersecurity

A great @technologyreview.com article quoting from @rachelhong.bsky.social and @willie-agnew.bsky.social!

Important new work from @jevan.bsky.social, Yoshi Kohno, & other UW & CMU coauthors.

My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model. This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.

Another major AI privacy violation and, again, almost no way for injured individuals to get remedy—or even to know who stole or misused their sensitive personal data.

The bottom line, says @willie-agnew.bsky.social, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” The paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17185

NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

Super excited and thankful to have Tech Review feature our work!

Please join us for the Co-Constructing the Future of Digital Intimacy workshop at #CSCW2025! (with @lucyq.bsky.social, @allismc.bsky.social, @dianafreed.bsky.social, @jevan.bsky.social, @eredmil1.bsky.social, @zahrastardust.bsky.social, @mirandawei.bsky.social ++) futureofdigitalintimacy.github.io

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process." organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

New paper alert! In a collaboration between computer scientists and legal scholars, we find a significant amount of PII in a common AI training dataset and conduct a legal analysis showing that these issues put web-scale datasets in tension with existing privacy law. [🧵1/N] arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185

Forget Me Not? Machine Unlearning's Implications for Privacy Law: this paper explores the technical challenges, and legal implications, of effectively removing or suppressing personal #data from large, complex models. http://spkl.io/63325fCCiz#data@jevan.bsky.social @cedricwhitney.bsky.social

If another world leader had threatened, in the middle of a bombing campaign, that a government "must make a deal, before there is nothing left" -- both scholars and the U.S. government would have labeled it a threat of genocide.

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun: Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work. Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

The Administration has arrested a judge in WI and a mayor in NJ, and is threatening to arrest federal lawmakers. In any other country we would say the strongman's security forces are locking up political opponents. We need to treat it exactly that way here. www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...

Elon Musk’s AI data centers polluting Black communities so that his Nazi followers can ask his chatbot questions is a perfect distillation of why AI is fascist technology

Exclusive: A series of internal government messages obtained by The Post reveal how U.S. embassies and the State Department have pushed nations to clear hurdles for U.S. satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name.

The entire CECOT atrocity was every bit the haphazard shitshow you probably imagined—and more so. Important, detailed reporting from the @nytimes.com

Signs of spring on the Olympic Peninsula

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

Spreading contamination - the rule of law is fragile if it is not defended

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.

Once again, normal civil servants have to disclose all of their financial info in order to prevent conflicts of interest.

Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason

The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war." We didn't come close to holding them accountable. We're seeing the cost of that now.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

Always heed the clarion call of @sifill.bsky.social

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

"Ton-That, who obsessed over race, IQ, and hierarchy, solicited input from eugenicists and right-wing extremists while building Clearview, and how, from the outset, he and his associates discussed deploying the tech against immigrants, people of color, and the political left."

Yet another American child shot and killed by Israel. The US president will meet with the Israeli prime minister in DC today. Not a word will be said about this killing. America First!

Trump says he wants to send Americans to gulags in El Salvador: "I love that. If we could take some of our 20 time wiseguys that push people into subways ... if he would take them, I would be honored to give them. I don't know what the law says on that ... I'm all for it."

Washington Post: 'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.' 'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.' www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly