Privacy advocate, policy counsel at @privacytoday Also D&D. I’m no longer posting or engaging here - please follow me on Mastodon @emoryr@techpolicy.social
Joined January 2009
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Friends, I’m not sticking around bird land for long, but Mastodon is free open source and decentralized. Honestly I get the complaints but it really is the alternative option to *all this*. If you’re at all tired of billionaires, there’s a clear “less evil” route.
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An observation: I have never understood why courts decided “characters” should be protected by copyright rather than trademark. The latter makes so much more sense.
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🤝PRC is excited to join these comments with @EPICprivacy , @CenDemTech , and @publicknowledge to advocate for stronger data breach reporting requirements and against a harm-based trigger for data breach notification #dataprotection #advocacy
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28 Feb 2023
We're thrilled to announce the brand new relaunch of our Data Breach Chronology Dashboard! This powerful tool provides valuable insights into more than 15 years of reported data breaches in the U.S. Check it out: privacyrights.org/data-breac… #databreach #dataprivacy
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27 Nov 2022
every single word of this is bad
The New York Police Department has joined Neighbors, a public neighborhood watch platform owned by Amazon’s Ring where video doorbell owners can post clips, and where precincts can enlist the help of the city’s residents in their investigations. nyti.ms/3AMxbj0
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So… the CEO of this platform and the richest man in the world is tweeting out 14/88 dog whistles. That’s happening. Tell me again why I should stick around here? Every tweet (even this one) feels like a tacit endorsement
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26 Nov 2022
Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.
Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.
Community note
Swartz was never convicted or sentenced to prison. After declining a plea bargain in which he'd serve six months in jail, he committed suicide before trial.
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26 Nov 2022
Today, the student debt crisis reached $1,953,163,262,128
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Anyone managed to feed the Antifa account list through the mastodon fediverse finder? Seems like a good list to import followers from
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26 Nov 2022
Microsoft responds to the German Federal DPA's conclusion that O365 breaches GDPR (English translation linked at the bottom)
Says little about the data flows issue. Just points to its EU Data Boundary product that doesn't solve the problem.
What a mess.
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25 Nov 2022
I downloaded my @Twitter data (eventually), and used tools created by @podehaye to look at how advertisers targeted me on the platform — and what types of information they had on me. You can do it too, (here digipower.academy/)
Here's what I found:
<<cue thread>>
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25 Nov 2022
This is the most ridiculous read of the situation. This is not “FTC trying to murder a foundation of the economy.” It’s “advertisers went all in on a predatory, exploitative system and they’re getting called on it.”
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In the same way I wouldn’t set up an account on Parler or whatever gross Reddit clone was started for bigots - it’s getting increasingly hard for me to justify *being here on this platform* with this at the head. Tweets ARE an endorsement
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22 Nov 2022
A Clearview AI lawyer testified in front of UK parliament today and confirmed what our team at BuzzFeed News reported a year ago: the company has been hawking its facial recognition tech to countries with questionable human rights records like the UAE.
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21 Nov 2022
Clearview has no customers in the UK or EU, Mulcaire says. Most in the US, but also: Panama, Brazil, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Dubai.
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21 Nov 2022
Are you looking for your next job in the fields of #privacy & #dataprotection? Remote, hybrid, or on-site? I've gathered some links here, check them out: implementprivacy.com/privacy…
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21 Nov 2022
.@LewisHamilton posted the tweet below from the 2021 #QatarGP. He wore a 🌈-coloured helmet there & wasn’t given the #F1 equivalent of a yellow card for doing so. Indeed he was praised for it - & he won the race. @FIFAcom & @fifamedia, you should be deeply ashamed of yourselves.
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