David Hoffman

I have a few students working on a project for my Cybersecurity and Health Data Policy course. It would be an amazing help if you could contribute to the study by filling out this quick anonymous survey at the link below!
🔗 www.mindwellstudy.com

I've been working to reduce my digital footprint. Plz consider:

✅ Use DeleteMe ($20/mo) to scrub personal info online
✅ Delete all noncritical apps
✅ Audit security/privacy settings
✅ Delete all Meta and Google accounts
✅ Browse with DuckDuckGo
✅ Use Signal
✅ Encrypt your cloud storage & backups

Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)

Zuckerberg's political pivot targets Apple, puts Meta staffers on edge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's actions to curry favor with the president have rattled employees, but people familiar with his efforts say there's a clear strategy.

Mark Zuckerberg’s open effort to curry favor with President Donald Trump has rattled employees, and the company is censoring their criticism internally, according to people familiar with the matter.

This Louisiana case also includes indictment of a mom - on felony charges for allegedly providing an illegal abortion with drugs obtained through the mail. Physical, informational and decisional privacy of this mom and daughter eviscerated.

“As the case has unfolded, court documents and interviews have revealed a lack of oversight, regulations and training around a highly controversial piece of surveillance technology.”

Event flyer for Data Privacy Day at Duke Plaintiffs’ Privacy:Making the Case

Looking forward to Data privacy Day celebration at Duke - and what promises to be a great discussion of plaintiffs’ privacy -

Data Privacy Day 2025 - and yes, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, privacy is still a thing - a collective action problem that needs our collective attention.

Text: Data Privacy Day 28 January. Freedom Together. Two magpies, one biting the chains from the other's ankle.

It's #DataPrivacyDay!

The right to privacy is essential to other fundamental human rights. It enables freedom of speech, expression, and association. Without privacy, our democracy crumbles.

I deleted all my posts on Threads. Meta didn’t need my feminine energy anyways.

Bumble Privacy Policy Welcome to the Bumble Group Privacy Policy. Whether you’re ready to put yourself out there and start dating or just looking for a new friend, at Bumble, we believe every relationship and opportunity s...

I very much like this approach to presenting a privacy notice/policy bumble.com/privacy-poli...

Indonesia plans minimum age for social media use Indonesia plans to issue a regulation to set a minimum age for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting children, its communications minister has said.

Indonesia plans to issue a regulation to set a minimum age for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting children, its communications minister said reut.rs/4gYMmIL

Zuckerberg vs. Democracy The changes he’s making to appease Donald Trump won’t fix the ways Facebook is harmful to our civic and political life.

"These companies are not just neutral pipes through which speech flows. They curate each user’s feed based on algorithmic decision-making and priorities set by the owners." And now, for Meta at least, even more so. ICYMI Yael Eisenstat: www.thebulwark.com/p/zuckerberg...

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Examples of newly permissible speech on Facebook and Instagram highlighted in the training materials include: “Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit.” “Gays are freaks.” “Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17 year old girl).”

Also read @sambiddle.com on the new Meta content guidelines, including a bunch of racist, anti-immigrant stuff that is now fair game theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

Anyway, really good article, I'll be digging in, thanks!

Everyone interested in digital transformation policy should follow CCPL. They are the top global cybersecurity thought leader.

Report: Hospitals Rarely Advise Doctors on How to Treat Patients Under Abortion Bans Doctors described hospital lawyers who “refused to meet” with them for months, were hard to reach during “life or death” situations and offered little help beyond “regurgitating” the law, according to...

Recent report provides greater insight into chaos at hospitals in ban states thanks to efforts of @wyden.senate.gov - proposals unlikely to be carried out on 47’s watch but still good to have info about costs of criminalization
www.propublica.org/article/abor...

US government tells officials, politicians to ditch regular calls and texts The U.S. government is urging senior government officials and politicians to ditch phone calls and text messages following intrusions at major American telecommunications companies blamed on Chinese hackers.

Cryptography wins crypto wars part 94

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Location Tracking Tools Endanger Abortion Access. Lawmakers Must Act Now. EFF wrote recently about Locate X, a deeply troubling location tracking tool that allows users to see the precise whereabouts of individuals based on the locations of their smartphone devices. Develop...

Location data poses risks for people seeking abortion and friends and family helping them do so. @eff.org has an explainer. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Opinion | Abortion bans are killing women — and states like Texas want to hide the truth As the laws’ predictable harms come to light, anti-abortion groups want us to look away.

Maternal mortality up in TX - “rather than investigate, the state is essentially admitting that the bodies are piling up faster than the state can address them” @susanrinkunas.com re crippling of maternal mortality commissions that will shape the story the data can tell www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Invaluable advice from @eff.org

Meta’s Privacy Policies: Designed Badly, by Design? | TechPolicy.Press When it comes to the design and presentation of privacy information, Meta might just win the prize for “worst in show,” writes Justin Sherman.

New for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: Anyone who’s ever used any digital service knows that privacy policies aren’t exactly picture books. But one company is one of the worst in how it visually displays and lays out its privacy policy information: Meta.

Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of Datasets Now After a machine learning librarian released and then deleted a dataset of one million Bluesky posts, several other, even bigger datasets have appeared in its place—including one of almost 300 million ...

New: your Bluesky posts are probably in many different datasets for potential AI/ML research. There's one of 300 million posts, two million, 8 million, etc www.404media.co/bluesky-post...

Predatory Sparrow: cyber sabotage with a conscience? An understudied ‘hacktivist’ group conducts cyberattacks against Iran that clearly violate international norms – but claims to demonstrate ethical restraint

Some thoughts on one of the most interesting threat actors we have seen over the past few years; Predatory Sparrow - with @jamesshires.bsky.social and Hannah-Sophie Weber

bindinghook.com/articles-bin...

Last I checked, NYPD didn’t have a contract with Clearview. Officers there loved it but decision makers thought it was too controversial a tool.

The FBI, however, who is a partner in the investigation, does have a Clearview contract per public budget records.

Why isn’t this screaming front page news everywhere? Perhaps bc those most at risk are young women under 30. “Locate X” --Please protect yourself using EFF's guide + share this info with two girls/women/nonbinaryppl < 35 you care about, and ask them to do the same. We *can* keep us safe #abortion