Eric Null

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 Books Could Kill - Episode 31: The Anxious Generation YouTube video by Seaquence

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...

jesus

this is an unbelievable air traffic pattern

"great work! have you considered doing less of it??"

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

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

Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy The Workshop on Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy will bring together economists, academics, and other experts to examine how the agency can better understand and measure co

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 anti #BigTech fervor running amok in Congress is so focused on #ContentModeration / #Section230, they're missing the obvious target: meaningful limits on companies' processing our data (which limits their power over us). Do that and they'd finally give consumers protections they want/need.

House Republicans have been "working" (supposedly) on a privacy framework to begin new negotiations around a federal privacy law. But we haven't seen it, and I'm not holding my breath for a proposal that meaningfully moves the needle.

But also, most privacy laws don't address #ArtificialIntelligence, which could be a huge privacy law loophole. Most state laws require, at most, companies to disclose their purposes for processing data. "We collect data to train AI" is basically a get-out-of-privacy-jail free card in those states.

Some state laws have "opt-in" consent for sensitive data. That's nice, but "sensitive" tends to be defined narrowly, and "opt-in" is still not very protective, as industry has endless incentives to nag you into consenting.

It needs to be better than the lion's share of state privacy laws that have passed, which basically are business-as-usual laws drafted and supported by industry. (save for Maryland's law and parts of California's law)

America desperately needs new privacy laws Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable — but Congress needs to act.

The Verge saying the US desperately needs a #privacy law. I agree.

www.theverge.com/column/88251...

Can the bot really ‘speak your language’? It’s time India demanded multilingual AI Accountability Indian users are a rapidly growing consumer base for chatbots. Their experience should be equal, regardless of the language they speak

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 to advocate for Section 230 reform at Capitol on Wednesday Joseph Gordon-Levitt is taking on Big Tech with a trip to the Capitol to call for reforms to a law that shields companies from lawsuits over user-generated content.  The “500 Days of Summer&#…

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.

Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy The Workshop on Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy will bring together economists, academics, and other experts to examine how the agency can better understand and measure co

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

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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

App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.

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?

On International Privacy Day, the FTC Should Confront the Privacy Risks of Age Verification Wednesday is International Privacy Day, and ironically, it’s also the day the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is holding a workshop to explore “how to deploy age verification more widely.” Accordi...

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-...