A PSA to turn off your Ring doorbells, in case the implications of that Super Bowl commercial are not clear! thehill.com/opinion/tech...

THE 8TH ANNUAL PRIVACI SYMPOSIUM https://privaci.info/symposium/2026/cfp.html We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. IMPORTANT DATES All […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

🚨 The #TPRC54 Call for Proposals is here! 🚨 We’re inviting papers, posters, panels, lightning talks, tutorials & student submissions on the future of communications, information & internet policy. 📅 Submissions open Feb 15 🔗 www.tprcweb.com/tprc54-cfp-o...

Privacy is foundational to activism.

I wish I was teaching dark patterns this semester... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Pay-to-link on Facebook foreshadows more misinformation and manipulation thefulcrum.us/media-techno...

This is probably the last episode of "Reimagining the Internet", the podcast Mike Sugarman and I have produced for the last five years. Talk about going out on a high note: I interview Alondra Nelson on AI, universities and the Trump administration: publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/117-...

Tomorrow (July 24) at 11 AM – 12 PM, I will be interviewed by Prem Trivedi at New America’s Open Technology Institute on privacy, technology, and democracy: www.newamerica.org/oti/events/p... Please join us for this event!

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

The always brilliant Antionette Burton on democracy, feminism, and equity. latinonewsnetwork.com/democracy/ag...

Excited to share that I’ve defended my dissertation. Grateful to my advisors, Yang Wang and @profmrs.bsky.social for their guidance. Special thanks to Yixin Zou for hosting me at MPI-SP as visiting researcher. Thank you to collaborators, peers, friends, and family. Stay tuned for the next chapter.✨

AI scraping bots looking for training data are overwhelming the servers of libraries and archives, making valuable, public resources unavailable to people. We are losing access to original writing and getting gimmicky writing in return through LLMs. #AIEthics #writers www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

I am so sad. And so tired. If it’s not one thing, it’s everything.

Explores how people experience, produce, and manage misinformation in their everyday lives. Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons by @profmrs.bsky.social & @melissa1776.bsky.social Out Now & #OpenAccess #LawSky 💙📚 cup.org/40cWUxU

Join us in Hawaii next January to present or learn about knowledge and data commons! CFP: governing the digital commons at HICSS 2026 hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-59/in...

Co-wrote my first op/ed with the great @profmrs.bsky.social!!! thehill.com/opinion/whit...

I have never hated any single update more than I hate this iOS. Why would you do this to mail?

Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This translation of the authors' recent ARIST review emphasizes the critical need for empirical #research on #misinformation governance to guide decision-making & #policy development. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... @profmrs.bsky.social

Fellow parents, what completely ridiculous thing, you never imagined needing to say at all, do you find yourself repeating? For me: Stop putting rocks in the washing machine!

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

In addition to the wonderful research being done on misinformation, its impact, dissemination, and filtering, we need to prioritize governance research, especially on alternative interventions at the community level! With Awa Zhu and Shengnan Yang: informationmatters.org/2024/11/gove...

GKC, knowledge commons, data governance starter pack: go.bsky.app/21AV2bt

Henry AI Kissinger is a great example of why AI breaks all contextual norms. Just because you were an expert on one thing does NOT mean, in death and/or by extension, that you can be an expert on everything.

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Did you take “civics” in school? What approximate year and state? Trying to address an interesting hunch provoked in a Q&A today… Thanks!

My small contribution to the dialogue on how we can address election misinformation, in light of governance failures. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Join us for a discussion on Speech, Power, and Consequences! @samuelanimates.bsky.social and Anika Collier Navaroli and I will discuss dealing with the risks of public speech next Tuesday evening.

We’re back! Join us Friday, August 23 at 2 pm ET for our first chat of the year! We’re discussing access friction - when choices that make a course more accessible for one student make it less accessible for someone else. Learn more and register at www.lispedagogychat.org/schedule-reg...

Nothing like Run, Hide, Fight resources to really get in the back to school mood.

What can universities do to influence AI development and use in a socially responsible way? cacm.acm.org/opinion/arti...

What might a Harris presidency mean for how we govern AI? On this and other critical policy issues, last week’s RNC made the choice between Vice President Harris and Donald Trump stark. Read my take in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with Ami Fields-Meyer, former tech policy advisor to the VP:

"Its surveillance plans, including controversial use of experimental AI video surveillance, are so extensive that the country had to change its laws to make the planned surveillance legal." #Olympics #AIEthics www.fastcompany.com/91158664/par...

On behalf of all academic parents, STOP SCHEDULING CONFERENCES OVER HOLIDAY BREAKS FROM SCHOOL. It is vastly simpler to teach one lecture on Zoom than it is to make child care arrangements.

OpenAI has been outright lying to everyone about their capabilities and accomplishments, which: We told you so. But I do appreciate @juliaangwin.com always doing the solid work to lay it out plain. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/o...

We need to broaden participation in tech policy making! Policies need to be technically possible and responsive to community needs. visiblemagazine.com/tiktok-ban-n...

Interesting legislation: Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act, recently introduced by California Democratic congressman Adam Schiff. H/T Bruna Trevelin, who helped me understand some key points. 1/ schiff.house.gov/imo/media/do...

I love collective action

This is dope All the players unions standing with the Sports Illustrated Union

Plan for the end of digital life! Save your loved ones lots of headaches! thehill.com/opinion/tech...

The FTC’s case against adtech giant Kochava highlights how much data brokers know everything about us #security #privacy #cloud #cyber #cybersecurity #infosec apple.news/AWS-qVGqGR--...

tl;dr Don't install (and more generally avoid) the Internet of Things via @ianbrown.tech

Generative AI in advertising poses a consumer protection disaster and requires regulatory oversight regarding privacy and dark patterns. thefulcrum.us/generative-a...

With @kyriezz78.bsky.social we are conducting a survey on contextual differential privacy preferences. It takes less than 10 minutes and we would love to hear your thoughts illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Join us on Zoom today at 11C/12E for the GKC Workshop to hear Barry Friedman discuss “Police Agency Data Trusts” illinois.zoom.us/meeting/regi...