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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org
41 minutes ago
We need effective judicial remedies to guaranty our digital liberties. This requires federal and state legislation to guaranty our right to sue federal agents for damages when they violate the U.S. Constitution. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the

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Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the

Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So

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Bloomberg News
@bloomberg.com
about 1 hour ago
Movies about technology come and go, but these five anticipated key aspects of our current digital dystopia, years before it arrived.
The Best Tech Movies Predicted Three Features Of The Digital Age

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The Best Tech Movies Predicted Three Features Of The Digital Age

The films that hold up best went beyond gadgetry to consider how technology changes human connection.

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Tech Policy Press
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal for public interest advocates and litigators, writes Jordan Ascher, policy counsel at Governing for Impact. It’s time to prepare for a flood of machine-generated rules.
Trump Administration Official Says Quiet Part Out Loud on AI-in-Government Plans

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Trump Administration Official Says Quiet Part Out Loud on AI-in-Government Plans

A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal, writes Jordan Ascher.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org
about 2 hours ago
“If my incentive is how we get cheap tech, I may not care very much about how much student data ends up being leaked out to some other entity or what they do with it,” EFF’s Lee Tien told @sfpublicpress.bsky.social. www.sfpublicpress.org/sch….
SFUSD Approves OpenAI Contract, Bypassing School Board

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SFUSD Approves OpenAI Contract, Bypassing School Board

The San Francisco Unified School District signed a contract with OpenAI three weeks before seeking approval from its school board.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org
about 3 hours ago
“It's part of this whole rush to just throw everything into the data-driven machine-learning nexus, and then hoping something more good will come out of it, your private information be damned,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @CNET.com. www.cnet.com/home/intern...
Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

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Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.”

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Center for Democracy & Technology
@cdt.org
about 4 hours ago
From AI governance to privacy, online safety, and free expression, our new Fellows bring deep technical + policy expertise to today’s most urgent tech challenges. We look forward to collaborating with them over the next two years. Learn more:

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CDT's Non-Resident Fellows - Center for Democracy and Technology

These are the people that make up CDT's Fellows – and we're incredibly grateful to have them help inform our work. Take a minute and get to know them.

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Center for Democracy & Technology
@cdt.org
about 4 hours ago
We’re thrilled to welcome CDT’s 2026–2027 class of Non-Resident Fellows — a remarkable group of scholars and experts whose insights will strengthen our work defending civil rights, civil liberties, and democratic values in the digital age. cdt.org/about/fellow...
CDT's Non-Resident Fellows.
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Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com
about 4 hours ago
Over 50 years, Microsoft has managed to get a finger in every single pie in the digital economy, then using its scale and pricing power to outlast the competition with mediocre products sold by a mediocre CEO to mediocre executives who will never use them. www.wheresyoured.at/premi….
In the last year I’ve spoken to over a hundred different tech workers, and the ones I hear most consistently from are the current and former victims of Microsoft, a company with a culture in decline, in large part thanks to its obsession with AI. Every single person I talk to about this company has venom on their tongue, whether they’re a regular user of Microsoft Teams or somebody who was unfortunate to work at the company any time in the last decade.

Microsoft exists as a kind of dark presence over business software and digital infrastructure. You inevitably have to interact with one of its products — maybe it’s because somebody you work with uses Teams, maybe it’s because you’re forced to use SharePoint, or perhaps you’re suffering at the hands of PowerBI — because Microsoft is the king of software sales. It exists entirely to seep into the veins of an organization and force every computer to use Microsoft 365, or sit on effectively every PC you use, forcing you to interact with some sort of branded content every time you open your start menu.

This is a direct results of the aggressive monopolies that Microsoft built over effectively every aspect of using the computer, starting by throwing its weight around in the 80s to crowd out potential competitors to MS-DOS and eventually moving into everything including cloud compute, cloud storage, business analytics, video editing, and console gaming, and I’m barely a third through the list of products. 

Microsoft uses its money to move into new markets, uses aggressive sales to build long-term contracts with organizations, and then lets its products fester until it’s forced to make them better before everybody leaves, with the best example being the recent performance-focused move to “rebuild trust in Windows” in response to the upcoming launch of Valve’s competitor to the Xbox (and Windows gaming in general), the Steam Machine.

Microsoft is a company known for two things: scale and mediocrity. It’s everywhere, its p…
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Ars Technica
@arstechnica.com
about 5 hours ago
"It’s really frustrating to see that all these human beings making really cool sites that people want to go to are just not available on the default Windows search engine.”
Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites

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Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites

Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿
@clancyny.bsky.social
about 5 hours ago
Many people are unfamiliar with the PPA. Those of us concerned with raids on news organizations got a refresher in 2023 with the hullabaloo around a small-town Kansas newspaper being raided, along with homes of staff. Many items were seized. The raid got a lot of attention at the time. Just sayin'!

idk if there is a full complement of 1A law experts on Bluesky yet. And, in this situation, familiarity with the ins and outs of the law as it applies to news organizations is essential. Matthew Schafer on Twitter is my guide star. https://twitter.com/MatthewSchafer/status/1690358057409122304?s=20

Matthew Schafer
@MatthewSchafer
Under the Privacy Protection Act, knowing what we know, it appears the search is unlawful and the newspaper has both a 1983 claim and a PPA claim, the latter of which is not subject to qualified immunity.

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Freedom of the Press
@FreedomofPress
"No matter how the story shakes out — if officials return all the seized computers and cellphones this afternoon — a message has been sent. That message conflicts with the tenets of an open society."
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MIT Technology Review
@technologyreview.com
about 5 hours ago
For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots. As the website’s tagline puts it: “Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.” We observed!
Moltbook was peak AI theater

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Moltbook was peak AI theater

The viral social network for agents reveals more about our own current mania for all things AI than what's really coming next.

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Jordan Francis
@jordfran.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
A little roundup of some professional news: 🟢 This year I am serving as the Young Privacy Professional for the Southern Wisconsin IAPP KnowledgeNet chapter. Our first event of the year is next Friday, February 13, where I will be hosting "I ❤️ Privacy" virtual trivia. iapp.org/community/lo...
Local chapter meetings | IAPP

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Local chapter meetings | IAPP

The IAPP is a policy neutral, not-for-profit association founded in 2000 with a mission to define, promote and improve the professions of privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility globally.

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Jordan Francis
@jordfran.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
📜 Finally, outside of my work at FPF, I continue to pursue academic writing. The GW Journal of Law & Technology recently published the latest piece from me, @hartzog.bsky.social, and Neil Richards, "Privacy's Autonomy Thicket: Disentangling Choice, Consent, and Control." papers.ssrn.com/id=5835022

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Privacy's Autonomy Thicket: Disentangling Choice, Consent, and Control

<p>When it comes to talking about autonomy, privacy law could use a little clarity. Its discourse uses terms like “choice,” “consent,” and “control” to evoke au

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Jordan Francis
@jordfran.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
⏭️ This week FPF released a retrospective on U.S. Privacy Enforcement in 2025. We looked back at enforcement activity by state attorneys general and the FTC in the past year and highlighted notable trends: fpf.org/blog/fpf-ret...
FPF Retrospective: U.S. Privacy Enforcement in 2025

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FPF Retrospective: U.S. Privacy Enforcement in 2025

The U.S. privacy law landscape continues to mature as new laws go into effect, cure periods expire, and regulators interpret the law through enforcement actions and guidance. State attorneys general a...

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Glyn Moody
@glynmoody.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
Commission preliminarily finds #TikTok's addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p... "includes features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly personalised recommender system." #dsa #eu
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act

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Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act

Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.

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Privacy International
@privacyinternational.org
about 6 hours ago
Companies and governments must push back now, lest they enable and copy these practices. Now’s not the time to seek profit by enabling injustice, it’s the time to step up and protect everyone and our data.
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Privacy International
@privacyinternational.org
about 6 hours ago
With this much data being processed, AI tools will likely be deployed to unlock access to details of our lives for border and immigration agencies.
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Privacy International
@privacyinternational.org
about 6 hours ago
The US Government wants to require five years of social media data and ten years of email addresses, including business accounts. Accumulating this most intimate personal data will create an unprecedented immigration system.
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Tech Policy Press
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
about 7 hours ago
France’s escalating investigation into Elon Musk’s X has become a fresh flashpoint in the transatlantic fight over platform governance, writes Mark Scott, highlighting how US claims of censorship collide with Europe’s push to hold powerful platforms accountable. buff.ly/UJptso0
The Paris Raid on X Shows How Far the US and Europe Have Drifted on Tech Rules

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The Paris Raid on X Shows How Far the US and Europe Have Drifted on Tech Rules

The dispute between Elon Musk’s X and French prosecutors offers a timely reminder of how differently the US and Europe approach free speech.

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