The front page of today’s Boston Globe.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was created specifically to provide oversight over the kinds of government actions where the need for secrecy makes people most vulnerable to abuses of power.

Come be my colleague! This is a really interesting, internationally-focused, remote-friendly, human rights & tech policy role. More info & apply ⬇️

a republic, if we can keep it 🤞🇺🇸

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So far, I am heartened by the draft! Right off the bat, it requires a data access portal (that's interoperable with the EC's existing portal) for researchers to apply and the various actors related to review/approval to be in communication. This seems prosaic, but it is crucial. (2/x)

EU DSA's Article 40 Delegated Act is out and open for comment for the next 4 weeks! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Today the European Commission proposed how Art.40 of the Digital Services Act (#DSA) could work in practice.In a worldwide first, this article in the DSA mandated very large platforms to grant researchers access to a wide range of previously undisclosed data.Some key points - now also on Bluesky :)👇

Reupping this for the institutional leaders who need it.

👋 Join @thegni.bsky.social Annual Learning Forum on Nov. 19th “Global Dynamics in Government Demands of Tech”, covering trends & tactics in gov't demands and mandates of tech and protecting human rights amidst changing contexts. Virtual registration: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-learning...

Come and join our small but mighty team working towards healthier local digital spaces! (& please share widely with folks who might be interested! 🙏)

great piece by @daphnek.bsky.social describing the "compliance-ization" (is that a word? now that's a word!) of platform policy and trust & safety functions. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The RSC comes out of research that Prof. Katie Searles (Univ of S Carolina) and I have been conducting into the impacts of occupational intimidation (OI) on experts—scientists, journalists, public health and election officials, etc.—focusing in particular on what can be done to mitigate harms. 1/

🚨 🚨 if you work in T&S, it turns out you should be paying attention to this UN treaty process! Jason lays out the concerns for a number of communities, including practitioners within companies. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

new piece by my colleague Jason Pielemeier www.justsecurity.org/100333/rethi... “the U.N. Convention Against Cybercrime... would put the privacy, data, and safety of dissidents, journalists, and activists around the world at risk"

What’s needed to make tech transparency meaningful for the Global Majority? Watch & read GNI & @ac-transparency.bsky.social's event summary: @hilaryisonline.bsky.social globalnetworkinitiative.org/event-summar...

📢NEW FROM ME! On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose. lpeproject.org/blog/social-...

We’re hosting a virtual event with @ac-transparency.bsky.social on April 8, exploring research and practice around what’s needed to create meaningful tech transparency for the Global Majority. More info & register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Transparency Initiatives Portal is now live at portal.meaningfultransparency.tech 🌐 It’s a streamlined, user-friendly community resource designed to help you navigate the complex tech transparency ecosystem. See @techpolicypress.bsky.social for more here: www.techpolicy.press/building-com...

New: Rite Aid secretly scanned shoppers with facial recognition for years, leading to false shoplifting accusations, embarrassment and harassment. The chain banned workers from discussing it, and one distraught 11-year-old girl was searched due to a bad match www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

after 2018 people kept trying to get comment from me or book me on shows on the subject of "cancel culture" and "cancellation" and now, five years later, when no one* remembers who I am or what I did, I have something to say on the matter www.theverge.com/c/features/2...

New: Cops are going into pharmacies and walking out with people's most sensitive health information. No warrant or judge review. Comes at a time when women's health care is being criminalized. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

New: Reuters has taken down its blockbuster investigation into how a hacker-for-hire shop after an Indian court order. No sign the piece was wrong, comes as India faces wave of press freedom issues: www.404media.co/reuters-take... Archive still exists. Read it: web.archive.org/web/20231116...

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For a long time I’ve been thinking about why we are so terrified a child will regret a gender transition. This essay ended up being not just about gender but about all of our identities, how they shape us and, crucially, how we shape ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/o...

update: ice skating lessons still bringing a lot of joy!!!

another day, another story showing how data brokers are a massive privacy and national security threat we do nothing about because the entire broken mess is very profitable (and the government likes not having to get a warrant)

ok a state attorney general launching an investigation of an organization for publishing obviously first amendment protected criticism of a billionaire’s business practices at the behest of said billionaire is not like the best place to be in, democracy wise

+1 this series is very good

a lot of things are bleak, so I’m trying to double down on things that bring joy. today I started ice skating lessons!!! 🥰⛸️ (thanks to @kendraserra.bsky.social)

Today would be a good day to pass the bipartisan Platform Accountability and Transparency Act www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-r...

on my reading list — by @anupamchander.bsky.social

There are many, many reasons why doing away with anonymous online speech would be dangerous for free expression. One is that it would force people from authoritarian countries to choose between speaking out and protecting their families.

for the billionth time, real name policies do not reduce harassment and are bad for both free expression and privacy (1/2) www.mediaite.com/tv/nikki-hal...

“dictatorships struck back at activists and journalists who were using the internet to campaign for human rights from afar. authoritarian regimes learned to respond… through spyware & online harassment… surveillance, threats, disruption, kidnapping & violence” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

milestone: first time back doing yoga, four-ish months post-baby 😌🧘🏽‍♀️

at least this routine check-in about whether we still get to have bodily autonomy is accompanied by thrilling graphics and stars that go whoooosh

Story this morning: Duke researchers were able to buy tens of thousands of US servicemembers' data, often for pennies on the dollar. Data brokers offer choices on active military members' location, credit score, net worth, and family status.

There’s a huge lack of childcare nationally — often waitlists of a YEAR — and it’s only getting worse 🫠😩 “When she asked, back in June, about enrolling her coming baby, she was told the center wouldn’t have another opening until next June at the earliest.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Our team analyzed one of the networks in here a few years back. It’s worth noting that every team mentioned in this article that does analysis work to *uncover* these operations is currently under fire, being investigated by Congress and getting sued. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Spy vs. spy: How Israelis tried to stop Russia’s information war in Africa. This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

immediate top of reading list 🤓

Nuts-kun, a squirrel with tree hair, is a mascot from the town of Satosho in Okayama, Japan.

hiii i finally got enough fomo and now i'm here.