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This is something you should watch. Alessandro’s work on the economics of privacy is unmatched.

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DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Ryan Calo Wants to Change the Relationship Between Law and Technology | TechPolicy.Press Calo is the author of Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach, published by Oxford University Press.

CIS Affiliate @rcalo.bsky.social argues law should proactively shape tech rather than just react to it. His book proposes a methodical approach: define tech carefully, assess impacts, analyze legal implications, and recommend solutions www.techpolicy.press/ryan-calo-wa...

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Check out this @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast interview with @cip.uw.edu co-founder @rcalo.bsky.social, a professor at @uwlaw.bsky.social and @ischool.uw.edu ⤵️⤵️⤵️

Ryan Calo Wants to Change the Relationship Between Law and Technology | TechPolicy.Press Calo is the author of Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach, published by Oxford University Press.

Podcast! In his new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach, Ryan Calo argues that if the purpose of technology is to expand human capabilities and affordances, the purpose of law is to establish the expectations, incentives, and boundaries that guide that expansion toward human flourishing.

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🖥️ Video of @rcalo.bsky.social's SRI Seminar Series talk is now online.

In “Law and technology: A methodical approach”, Calo explores how law can navigate the unique challenges posed by technology.

📼 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFX1...

Consider the Amish mattress As tech-tied products produce indentured consumers, there's growing value in objects unlinked to the datastream.

Amish mattresses resilient against AWS outage ai-humanist.beehiiv.com/p/consider-t...

The hypocrisy of the Biden weaponization narrative in the face of overt censorship by Trump is staggering.

Senate Republicans are holding a second hearing on alleged Biden censorship of speech entitled “Shut Your App” days after DOJ made Apple remove an app designed to report the public whereabouts of law enforcement. 🙃

Evaluating Instagram's Promises to Protect Teens | TechPolicy.Press A conversation with Laura Edelson and Arturo Béjar, two authors of a report titled "Teen Accounts, Broken Promises: How Instagram is Failing to Protect Minors."

For this week’s podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Cybersecurity for Democracy’s Laura Edelson and Arturo Béjar, a whistleblower and safety advocate, about their report, “Teen Accounts, Broken Promises: How Instagram is Failing to Protect Minors.”

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Meta Cuts 600 in AI Division The job cuts will affect legacy teams but not the company’s new TBD Lab unit.

Meta Platforms is cutting about 600 jobs in its AI division, according to an internal memo that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal and a person familiar with the matter.

Privacy Papers for Policymakers Call for Papers The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) invites privacy scholars and authors with an interest in privacy issues to nominate finished papers for consideration for FPF’s annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers...

For all the #privacy academics out there: In case you missed it, submissions are open for FPF's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) award! You have until Oct. 30 to submit the best privacy scholarship from the past year.

⏩ See details here: fpf.org/privacy-pape...

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.

NEW, from me and @makenakelly.bsky.social: The FTC is disappearing blog posts about AI that were written during Lina Khan’s tenure as FTC chair www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

Defining privacy — An academic debate that's not just academic REI's Chuck Cosson explores the debate among privacy academics on just what "privacy" means.

Privacy defies single definition per debate between @daniel-solove.bsky.social's taxonomy view & @rcalo.bsky.social /Angel's critique. Privacy pros face uncertainty in roles/budgets. Impact matters more than definitions. By @chuckcosson.bsky.social

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley, I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday. I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led White House- is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities on their teaching and research mission. Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its place as the envy of the world. We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance higher education. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

Please join the Tech Policy Lab & Society + Technology on Thursday, October 23rd for a book salon featuring 3 new books authored by 3 @uofwa.bsky.social faculty members (@rcalo.bsky.social, @katharinareinecke.bsky.social, @leahcecc.bsky.social).

Register Here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...

Thoughtful piece by @chuckcosson.bsky.social about how to define “privacy.” Discusses my debate with Maria Angel and @rcalo.bsky.social -- iapp.org/news/a/defin...

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Screenshot of summary of Chapter 7's "disconcertingly persuasive" argument and its "apt solution" by Froomkin, Kerr & Pineau.

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So happy so see Martin Holohan of Trinity College, Dublin pen a terrific (and very positive!) review of Robot Law II, the book I edited with @rcalo.bsky.social and @kristenthomasen.bsky.social. Thank you! scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
Get your copy here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/rob...

We Robot 2026, Berlin call for papers is live. ai-laws.org/wp-content/u... (PDF) Please share!

We Robot 2026, Berlin call for papers is live. ai-laws.org/wp-content/u... (PDF) Please share!

Law and Technology

My book has its own little website! You can see interviews and talks, including upcoming ones. Please be in touch if you plan to use Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach in your course and we'll add it to website. Huge thanks to Lily Wieland 🙏 www.law-and-technology.com

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If you're in #Seattle and like beer and tech ethics. www.aslanbrewing.com/fremont-even...

Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot đoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, »hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

💡Up next in the fall SRI Seminar Series: @rcalo.bsky.social (@uwlaw.bsky.social) — “Law and technology: A methodical approach”

Wed, Oct 8 12:30 PM ET | Free online 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3rsnvcbc

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