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Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo 'supply chain risk' designation Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the artificial intelligence company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow un...

"Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the #AI company a '#SupplyChainRisk' over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology." apnews.com/article/anth... @apnews.com

09.03.2026 15:54 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

They will not stop unless the law makes them.

09.03.2026 13:24 👍 34 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
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Attorney says your settlement cannot be reopened. But ChatGPT says the attorney is gaslighting you. So you have ChatGPT make dozens of frivolous filings to reopen your settlement. The defense spends $300,000 fending off 44 frivolous, hallucinated motions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

07.03.2026 22:47 👍 264 🔁 52 💬 18 📌 24

They will not stop until the law makes them.

08.03.2026 15:05 👍 35 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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Federal Prosecutor Used Fabricated Quotes in Court Filing An assistant US attorney in North Carolina filed a response with the court that included “fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” and then made “false or misleading statements” of ho...

NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible.
Pro se defendant flagged the errors.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

06.03.2026 22:50 👍 1124 🔁 364 💬 31 📌 49
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2026

🚨 Registration is now open for PETS 2026 in Calgary!
The 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2026) will take place in Calgary, Canada, from July 20–25, 2026.
Join the community and be part of the conversation about PETS.
🔗 Get your spot: petsymposium.org/2026/registr...

07.03.2026 06:33 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...

05.03.2026 23:25 👍 175 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 3

A federal judge has been asked to block Trump from closing and razing the Kennedy Center. "This is a case about the ongoing desecration and impending destruction of a cherished
national monument," the lawsuit says. f9c23fd5-1644-4a5f-a561-d04e6b5736d6.usrfiles.com/ugd/f9c23f_b...

06.03.2026 18:37 👍 153 🔁 65 💬 5 📌 3
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Enforcing Privacy Law: Why Private Litigation Is Essential papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #PrivacyLaws

06.03.2026 17:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 2870 🔁 1549 💬 90 📌 383
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We thank @aoc.bsky.social for speaking the truth about age verification in the House E&C hearing today! As she stated plainly, and we agree, age verification is a smoke-screen for censorship. It is NOT about kids safety!

05.03.2026 21:50 👍 1098 🔁 499 💬 9 📌 14
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The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Online behavioral advertising isn’t just creepy–it’s dangerous. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

05.03.2026 23:56 👍 121 🔁 63 💬 1 📌 5
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Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

BREAKING NYT:

Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

05.03.2026 20:30 👍 4128 🔁 1057 💬 177 📌 153
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Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

Most of the footage should never leave the user’s device. But of course the worst company doesn’t do privacy.

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
futurism.com/artificial-i...

05.03.2026 17:12 👍 88 🔁 43 💬 6 📌 18
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Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

I joined 300+ security and privacy academics in calling for a global pause on online age verification: www.politico.eu/article/age-...

03.03.2026 20:57 👍 192 🔁 105 💬 0 📌 1
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 16:24 👍 2932 🔁 1782 💬 168 📌 339

No matter how many times I tell zoominfo to not sell my personal data, they continue to sell it to companies.

I am so frustrated with their non compliance with California law.

04.03.2026 21:16 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

28 USC 530B(a): "An attorney for the Government shall be subject to state laws and rules ... governing attorneys in each State where such attorney engages in that attorney's duties, to the same extent and in the same manner as other attorneys in that state."
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www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

04.03.2026 18:05 👍 399 🔁 119 💬 9 📌 3
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after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

03.03.2026 17:55 👍 24792 🔁 6086 💬 1098 📌 759
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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

03.03.2026 14:46 👍 6474 🔁 2414 💬 87 📌 131
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ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal | TechCrunch Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.

“U.S. app uninstalls of ChatGPT’s mobile app jumped 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, as consumers responded to the news of OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense (DoD), which has been rebranded under the Trump administration as the Department of War.” techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/c...

03.03.2026 05:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Limitations of Privacy Rights
The Limitations of Privacy Rights YouTube video by Solove on Tech

My speech about how privacy laws put too much onus on individuals to protect themselves
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rz...

01.03.2026 19:30 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

“It's really common for people to look up private information, get parents' phone numbers and start calling and harassing the parents, things like that. I've been able to keep my family safe from that kind of thing for years.” www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

28.02.2026 21:44 👍 141 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 4
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The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

28.02.2026 13:58 👍 9697 🔁 2788 💬 304 📌 218

2025 annual report of the California Privacy Protection Agency has dropped. Lots going on in the Golden State regarding privacy. privacy.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

27.02.2026 02:16 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

@v0max.bsky.social I thought privacy was your responsibility!

26.02.2026 22:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

-- Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)

26.02.2026 15:29 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Alessandro Acquisti: the rate of “F” vendors found through targeted advertising was much higher than consumers would have found through normal Internet searching .

26.02.2026 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy Conference
Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy Conference YouTube video by FTCvideos

FTC conference on consumer benefits and injuries of data economy. Live today www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S0V...

26.02.2026 15:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0