This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

OkCupid was caught red-handed sharing data contrary to its #privacy policy, and then lied about it to the FTC? Sheesh. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

gambling is a scourge H/T @hartzog.bsky.social

this is your reminder to double-check that Apple Maps business locations are correct. I was about to go an hour out to VA on the metro to go to a store location I found on Apple Maps that turns out didn't exist at all! (No disrespect to Apple Maps, it's a good app! But errors exist.)

this is the _real_ pentagon. much taller than DC's and is actually the tallest pentagonal building in the world! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimo...

If House E&C's goal is to protect #kids online, why do their bills (1) preempt stronger state laws; (2) lack a private right of action for kids/parents to enforce their rights; (3) incent #AgeVerification, which will use #FacialRecognition to determine age; (4) have weak #DataMinimization? #Privacy

If you cite "Anxious Generation" supportively, you should listen to the <If Books Could Kill> podcast about the book, on why it's not very rigorous or persuasive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBM...

this is an unbelievable air traffic pattern

Time to rethink whether #DeIdentification #Anonymization provides any #privacy protection at all. Of _course_ #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels are fantastic at re-identifying users. It is the exact type of task they excel at--finding correlations in data arstechnica.com/security/202...

must. make. AI. overlord. happy. please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please thank you

FTC hosting a workshop this Thursday on consumer injuries and benefits from the "data-driven economy" with many great academics speaking! Looking forward to the convo. www.ftc.gov/news-events/... #privacy #ArtificialIntelligence

The Verge saying the US desperately needs a #privacy law. I agree. www.theverge.com/column/88251...

The Delhi Commitments launched at the #IndiaAIImpactSummit have rightfully centered multilingual evals as a core part of enhancing AI system use but how language experts will be included and eval outcomes are used is also important as Aditya Vashistha and I explain: indianexpress.com/article/opin...

cats, too! (jk, Search Party is a terrible service designed to create a dragnet surveillance apparatus. please stop!)

In which a law firm lawyer cites _only himself_ in witness testimony in front of the House Education/Workforce committee. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI republicans-edlabor.house.gov/UploadedFile...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt could be fighting #BigTech by pushing for comprehensive #privacy legislation that actually limits their influence/power over us. Instead, he wants to repeal #Section230, which will only embolden the very companies he supposedly hates. thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

had to laugh a little at this. my goodness.

The FTC is planning to host a data harms/benefits workshop on Feb 26. Panels are all academics. We will be watching closely. www.ftc.gov/news-events/... #Privacy #ArtificialIntelligence #Advertising

Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

FTC waiting music sounds a bit like "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk. #AgeVerifyFTC

how many more people are going to argue that "we don't let kids buy alcohol" without recognizing that access to *information* on the internet is very different (constitutionally etc) than purchasing a product in the real world? #AgeVerifyFTC #Privacy #AgeVerification

the FTC could have these kinds of statements too! if only there were minority commissioners.

really wish there were a Democratic FTC commissioner who could call out the ways Meador is wrong or misleading. I fear we may never have minority commissioners again, unfortunately. #AgeVerifyFTC #Privacy #AgeVerification

as usual, speakers go way over so they cut more than half the break. breaks are important, we all need a mental stop. why do we always cut breaks? #AgeVerifyFTC

This certainly doesn't seem good, especially as the FTC holds a workshop on age verification... www.404media.co/app-for-quit... #AgeVerifyFTC #Privacy #COPPA

did he just dox himself?

In addition to *everything else*, the FTC will host a workshop on age verification on Wednesday, which is also international privacy day. @npdoty.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy, @nullset.bsky.social and I had a few suggestions on what the FTC should focus on to protect users: cdt.org/insights/on-...

I'm hiring a senior policy analyst/counsel for the privacy & data team at CDT! "Inquire within"

More details on the #AgeVerification FTC workshop next week. Not a *lot* of opposition to age verification generally, but at least some panelists will bring some well-needed nuance! #Privacy #ArtificialIntelligence

I'm hiring a senior policy analyst/counsel for the privacy & data team at CDT! "Inquire within"

wonder if that bus driver went through an AI-heavy hiring process...

I worked in trademark law for a little while and I was told explicitly many times that "trademark" is NOT a verb.

And sure enough, OpenAI just announced it would be introducing ads to ChatGPT. Good thing @mbogen.bsky.social & I wrote about the incentives this would create for AI companies, and how those incentives were likely to shape the user experience. TL;DR: it's not great! #itsthebusinessmodel

Friday news dump: Sen. Blackburn has released a section-by-section for an upcoming AI framework bill that is apparently designed to break the logjam on AI legislation and preemption. www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/fil...

I am once again imploring Congress to stop messing with #Section230, which will mess w/the internet and cement Big Tech's power (1A still exists!), and to pass meaningful #privacy legislation that'll actually protect people.

I am once again imploring Congress to stop messing with #Section230, which will mess w/the internet and cement Big Tech's power (1A still exists!), and to pass meaningful #privacy legislation that'll actually protect people. abcnews4.com/news/local/b...

Trump's #ArtificialIntelligence executive order is severely flawed, more on that below

Good "meta"-coverage of media on the #ArtificialIntelligence executive order, by @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/t...

Great to see #Texas taking action against the data-hungry "smart TV" industry www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release... #privacy #data #DataProtection #SmartTV

the timeline just got way worse -- La Tejana ending nighttime service. If you haven't gone, go this week. Get the churros. Thank me later. www.popville.com/2025/12/la-t...

well, this could explain why that particular CVS on GA Ave has fallen into disrepair (the automatic doors keep breaking) and has never been updated w/self check-out. www.popville.com/2025/12/cvs-...

sad way to view education, "the only thing of value is the stuff directly relevant to your future job" 16-20 years olds can't predict their futures you can learn to be a poet w/o a poetry class, you can end up not-a-poet and still benefit from learning poetry just don't take that class

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

The FTC has announced an all-day workshop on age verification tech. Unfortunately, they're not exactly asking the questions they should be. Two of the issues they'll cover: "why age verification matters" and "how to deploy age verification more widely" www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

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Court: Congress won't give up its power over independent agencies, so "just go to Congress" doesn't work. Thoughts? (Recent history shows that Congress is actually perfectly willing to give up their power)

I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS

Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.

Kagan: the consequence of Trump getting to use his exec power to control how these agencies exercise these other powers is he's now going to have massively unchecked legislative and adjudicative powers Congress delegated to the agencies and now can't take back. "It will be a power over everything."

This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Slaughter v. Trump, the case that might (will?) decide whether federal independent agencies can exist. I will try to liveskeet some of the more interesting parts of the oral argument this morning.