Excited to share a new preprint, authored with @masurphil.bsky.social and @thinkmacro.bsky.social We validate the Online #Privacy Literacy Scale (OPLIS) for a US context and offer reliable and valid short forms of the scale for both the US and Germany. You can read it here! osf.io/preprints/so...

US Border Patrol admits using Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data to track people's movements. The failure to enforce against the RTB data breach at the heart of online advertising is very, very dangerous. Big scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co! www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Huh… “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,’ according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs...” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

So happy to be part of this outstanding group of #privacy scholars!

Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. Explore cutting-edge digital methods in this hands-on workshop series. No coding required — we’ll be using @Communalytic.org, a platform for analyzing social media discourse. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

Can it really be a study about the privacy calculus if the only thing assessed is benefits? I don’t think so…

We're still mostly over at @[email protected] (did we mention the Association of Internet Researchers has its own Mastodon instance any AoIR member can use?), but we're delighted BlueSky is providing an alternative to that *cough* other platform. Waves to lots of new friends!

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

Semester validated! A quote from one of my students — “We want media literacy to be trendy.”