I have a few students working on a project for my Cybersecurity and Health Data Policy course. It would be an amazing help if you could contribute to the study by filling out this quick anonymous survey at the link below! 🔗 www.mindwellstudy.com

I've been working to reduce my digital footprint. Plz consider: ✅ Use DeleteMe ($20/mo) to scrub personal info online ✅ Delete all noncritical apps ✅ Audit security/privacy settings ✅ Delete all Meta and Google accounts ✅ Browse with DuckDuckGo ✅ Use Signal ✅ Encrypt your cloud storage & backups

Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)

Mark Zuckerberg’s open effort to curry favor with President Donald Trump has rattled employees, and the company is censoring their criticism internally, according to people familiar with the matter.

This Louisiana case also includes indictment of a mom - on felony charges for allegedly providing an illegal abortion with drugs obtained through the mail. Physical, informational and decisional privacy of this mom and daughter eviscerated.

“As the case has unfolded, court documents and interviews have revealed a lack of oversight, regulations and training around a highly controversial piece of surveillance technology.”

Looking forward to Data privacy Day celebration at Duke - and what promises to be a great discussion of plaintiffs’ privacy -

Data Privacy Day 2025 - and yes, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, privacy is still a thing - a collective action problem that needs our collective attention.

It's #DataPrivacyDay! The right to privacy is essential to other fundamental human rights. It enables freedom of speech, expression, and association. Without privacy, our democracy crumbles.

I deleted all my posts on Threads. Meta didn’t need my feminine energy anyways.

I very much like this approach to presenting a privacy notice/policy bumble.com/privacy-poli...

Indonesia plans to issue a regulation to set a minimum age for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting children, its communications minister said reut.rs/4gYMmIL

"These companies are not just neutral pipes through which speech flows. They curate each user’s feed based on algorithmic decision-making and priorities set by the owners." And now, for Meta at least, even more so. ICYMI Yael Eisenstat: www.thebulwark.com/p/zuckerberg...

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Also read @sambiddle.com on the new Meta content guidelines, including a bunch of racist, anti-immigrant stuff that is now fair game theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

Anyway, really good article, I'll be digging in, thanks!

Everyone interested in digital transformation policy should follow CCPL. They are the top global cybersecurity thought leader.

Recent report provides greater insight into chaos at hospitals in ban states thanks to efforts of @wyden.senate.gov - proposals unlikely to be carried out on 47’s watch but still good to have info about costs of criminalization www.propublica.org/article/abor...

Cryptography wins crypto wars part 94 www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Location data poses risks for people seeking abortion and friends and family helping them do so. @eff.org has an explainer. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Maternal mortality up in TX - “rather than investigate, the state is essentially admitting that the bodies are piling up faster than the state can address them” @susanrinkunas.com re crippling of maternal mortality commissions that will shape the story the data can tell www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Invaluable advice from @eff.org

New for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: Anyone who’s ever used any digital service knows that privacy policies aren’t exactly picture books. But one company is one of the worst in how it visually displays and lays out its privacy policy information: Meta.

New: your Bluesky posts are probably in many different datasets for potential AI/ML research. There's one of 300 million posts, two million, 8 million, etc www.404media.co/bluesky-post...

Some thoughts on one of the most interesting threat actors we have seen over the past few years; Predatory Sparrow - with @jamesshires.bsky.social and Hannah-Sophie Weber bindinghook.com/articles-bin...

Last I checked, NYPD didn’t have a contract with Clearview. Officers there loved it but decision makers thought it was too controversial a tool. The FBI, however, who is a partner in the investigation, does have a Clearview contract per public budget records.

Why isn’t this screaming front page news everywhere? Perhaps bc those most at risk are young women under 30. “Locate X” --Please protect yourself using EFF's guide + share this info with two girls/women/nonbinaryppl < 35 you care about, and ask them to do the same. We *can* keep us safe #abortion

A very good practical guide for privacy protection. Remember that some communications platforms like WhatsApp mine and analyze your message metadata to predict what is in your message.

For non-techy types with a passing interest in AI & cyber security - a one skeet guide 👇on why you should treat terrifying “cyber attack” statistics with a truckload of salt

@duke-university.bsky.social leadership on the intersection of climate and AI. climate.duke.edu/news/artific...

When you think of Apple, what comes to mind? The iPhone? Computers? Their music products? Or maybe even Apple Intelligence? Well according to the company’s CEO Tim Cook, it will be their health apps that will define their legacy.

I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?

This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

While I admire the CPPA's effort to educate, the notion that the ball is in the individuals' court is not a good one. This puts the on individuals to protect their privacy when they are ill-equipped to do so and then leads to blaming them when they fail to do so.

Italian DPA ruling on generative AI, does it effectively end LLMs in Italy? Or does a closer look at how Open AI and other LLMs scan to remove 'most personal data' end up supporting the required anonymisation? www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/...

So today is Shirley Chisholm’s 100th birthday!!!! She was an icon! My mentor was a volunteer for her, so I got to hear so many stories. We need to channel her energy today, because if we want change, we have to make it! That may make some uncomfortable, but oh well! The end result will be beautiful!

Surveying the landscape re future access to mifespristone - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social explains the new administration will have to take positions in pending lawsuits relatively quickly - www.lawdork.com/p/mifepristo...

Clue and Euki - femtech making best efforts on behalf of women. More on Clue below.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act is a game-changer for product security. It raises the bar for manufacturers, demanding robust security across the entire product lifecycle. This as a step forward in holding companies accountable for protecting people. #security #securitysky

Dug into the future of privacy under a Trump FTC news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

Wyoming judge invalidates state #abortion ban based on state constitutional right of competent adults to make their own health care decisions. Abortion is health care. www.reuters.com/legal/wyomin...

In “Bodies of Evidence: the Criminalization of Abortion and Surveillance of Women in a Post-Dobbs World,” Stephanie Pell and I discuss the way medication abortion complicates antiabortion strategies and the effect it may have on criminalization. djclpp.law.duke.edu/article/bodi...

Duke and the Center for Latin America Convergence have released the paper “Increasing Cybersecurity Capacity Through Connectivity and Digital Education.” Read the report here www.cc-latam.org/_files/ugd/6...