Robert Bodle

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.”

Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement.
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The Uber regulatory arbitrage playbook all over again: "We are not a transportation company, so those laws don't apply. We are Tech. Disrupting your silly laws is our MO." I discuss this strategy--and ways to try and counter it--in "Disrupting the Disruption Narrative" www.nae.edu/19579/19582/...

5 questions for Danielle Citron

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Missed the launch of the Digital Constitutionalism Network database of Digital Bills of Rights at the UN IGF this afternoon?
No worries. The recording of the session is now available online: www.youtube.com/live/FdqiH1B...

#IRsky #polisci #polisky #commsky #digitalrights #humanrights #civilsociety

Congress has introduced a moratorium that would restrict state legislatures from introducing legislation to regulate Al, and completely remove current protections. Please, call your Congressperson and Senators and tell them to oppose this moratorium on Al regulations.

Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91

Such sad news. Bill was a tireless advocate for and practitioner of fearless public media. His curiosity was boundless and he believed deeply in journalism's power to serve democracy and enrich people's lives. He was so generous in talking to me about the need for a new public media system. RIP.

"no person--adult or child--has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof of age." UGH

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Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power “I think it’s very important to maintain that refusal is an option.” – Emily M. Bender “AI is not inevitable. AI – as it is constructed right now – is, I think, fundamentally anti-democratic.” – Alex ...

For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online!

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app is one of the most depressing places online Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

Meta launched a stand-alone AI app and now it is full of sensitive content from Facebook users who appear to be unaware that they have made their conversations public: www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...

by ‪@daniel-solove.bsky.social‬

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That's the thing about these tech surveillance companies--there's no problem they don't see themselves as a solution to. The problem is, when on you have ones that are court favorites, the money flows to them from every aspect of governance.

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

If attempted, this would constitute flagrant violations of the Privacy Act of 1974 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Columbia’s Capitulation, and Wesleyan’s Pushback Today on TAP: Appeasing dictators only invites more of the same. More university presidents should know that.

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EFF is at #RightsCon25 and we're showing our support for Alaa Abd El Fattah. Read more about Alaa's story and take action: freealaa.net. #FreeAlaa

It's just distributed computing: Rethinking AI governance What we now lump under the unitary label “artificial intelligence” is not a single technology, but a highly varied set of machine learning application…

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Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship

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Thank the FCC commissioners who voted to reinstate Net Neutrality! Add your name to the card.

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Federal Court Dimisses X's Anti-Speech Lawsuit Against Watchdog This post was co-written by EFF legal intern Melda Gurakar.Researchers, journalists, and everyone else has a First Amendment right to criticize social media platforms and their content moderation

You have the right to publish research critical of X. On X.

UN adopts first global artificial intelligence resolution www.reuters.com/technology/c...