@STOPSpyingNY founder; @CarrCenter @yaleisp, @ashoka, & @TEDTalks fellow; 100 bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, Wired, etc. Was @WeilGotshal & @Harvard_Law. He/him
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12 Sep 2022
OMG, my TED Talk just came out!!!! I can't believe this is actually live! ted.com/talks/albert_cahn_th…
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Move Slow And Upgrade is officially out in the world! If you want to learn how we can fight back against the broken “move fast and break things” mindset and actually fix big problems in tech, finance, and democracy, pick up your copy today! cambridge.org/core/books/mov…
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Excited that the UK launch of my first book with the amazing Evan Selinger is just a few days away! UK Friends, please join me and @alisonkilling for this launch party! And please show publishers to invest in anti-tech bro narratives by pre-ordering today! eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
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14 Oct 2025
British friends, excited that UK preorders for my 1st book are live! @evanselinger and I explain why the DOGE (move fast & break things) approach is broken and how we can fix huge problems by moving slow and upgrading. You can get 25% off until Friday! waterstones.com/book/move-sl…
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@foxcahn@BSky.Social) retweeted
13 Aug 2025
New laws that seek to verify a user's age when they attempt to access certain content online—sometimes by uploading their driver's license or a selfie—won't make the internet safer, and may even introduce new problems, @FoxCahn argues. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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20 Jun 2025
It's a beautiful day to NOT rank Andrew Cuomo
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17 Jun 2025
When even elected officials can be whisked away by masked agents, none of us can rest comfortably with the state of our democracy.
nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyreg…
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I've done some amazing stunts over the years, but this has to be my most ridiculous. I not only spent months forging an Ai WeiWei piece because I thought the gallery selling it was being obnoxious, but i actually got to interview WeiWei about my stunt.🙃🤯 businessinsider.com/lego-art…
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Yes, this sort of article is completely frivolous, especially when so much is on fire here and abroad, but I hope it can be a brief respite from the tragedy of the news cycle for those who need one.
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With everything so grim, I’m so excited for a ridiculous, frivolous, and wonderfully irreverent project of mine to come out tomorrow. It may not fix any of the things keeping us all up at night, but it will hopefully be an entertaining distraction from it all. 😁
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19 May 2025
We went full black mirror. Tracking anyone, anywhere, at any time using their face is simply incompatible with democracy. Terrified to think how cops will weaponize this against protesters, religious groups, and anyone else law enforcement wants to target. washingtonpost.com/business/…
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16 May 2025
Friends, I'm a wrangler for MozFest this year, and I wanted to put in a plug for our call for proposals, which is closing on May 21st at Noon CET / 6 AM ET. It's a very short proposal, and a great venue, so please reach out to me if you have any questions. pretalx.com/mozilla-festival…
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@foxcahn@BSky.Social) retweeted
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Celebrates NYC Passage Of POST Act Amendments Closing NYPD Surveillance Loopholes
The bills force the NYPD to disclose many of its surveillance systems, what data it collects, and who has access. stopspying.org/latest-news/2…
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As a Jewish man, a civil rights lawyer, and a privacy expert, I can assure you that this policy as almost 0 to do with actual antisemitism. npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-5914…
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Why do people have to be so negative and refer to this as a “trade war”? Can’t we be more positive and think of it as a “loving poverty”? #Tariff nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/…
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It’s amazing that it took so many so long to realize:
#Tariffs = taxes.
Raising American tariffs is just another way to raise federal taxes, and we all pay the bill.
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As someone who fights surveillance, I wish I could be gleeful about so many intel leaders losing their jobs, but truly the only thing that terrifies me more than our surveillance arsenal in the hands of the NSA is putting it in the hands of Elon Musk. 😢 washingtonpost.com/national-…
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while deleting your personal data is a measure of protection, in @FoxCahn's words, "the genetic horse is out the barn." unfortunately, the only way you can 100% protect your genetic data is to not share it with companies like 23andme in the first place.
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24 Mar 2025
Finally caved and bought one of the photos from last weekend’s United Half to psych myself up for the Jersey City Marathon in just three weeks 😬
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@foxcahn@BSky.Social) retweeted
18 Mar 2025
My promise to New Yorkers: you will never see a billionaire who contributed 1 million to Trump's inauguration on my donor list.
18 Mar 2025
A new letter from Indivisible Brooklyn takes aim at GOP-aligned donors to Maya Kornberg. Plus, it notes Kornberg's connection to one of those donors is a lot closer than she let on to us back in December.
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