John Davisson

CalPrivacy inviting preliminary comments reducing friction in exercise of privacy rights & opt-out preference signals. Submit your comments by April 6. Learn more. cppa.ca.gov/regulations/...

EPIC, OTI Urge FTC Not to Ignore Full Scope of Data-Driven Harms <p>The comments call on the Commission to broaden both its quantitative and qualitative conceptions of the privacy injuries caused by unlawful data practices to fulfill its consumer protection mandate...

As the FTC holds a workshop today on consumer injuries, EPIC and @newamerica.org’s Open Technology Institute are calling on the Commission “to take a more comprehensive view of consumer harm in the data-driven economy.” 🧵(1/6)

I contain multitudes!

DHS agents detain Columbia student after entering University-owned residence, Shipman reports <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates. </i>

fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!

Immigration Agents Arrest Student Inside Columbia Building, School Says

In June, President Shipman insisted that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's capitulation to fascism would ensure "critical continuity for faculty, students, and staff" and that the University would "retain[] control" over "operational decisions."

So much for that: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

But mooooneeey :-(

Proposed ICE Warehouse Locations - Google My Maps Proposed sites for industrial warehouses to be used as mass detention centers by the US Department of Homeland Security. Descriptions include current status of each site, and any response from local...

There's a Google map, at least: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

Letters sent by @epic.org yesterday calling on the FTC and nine states to investigate and block Meta's plan to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses.

A privacy, safety, and civil liberties disaster in the making—unless enforcers step up.

epic.org/epic-urges-f...

Letters sent by @epic.org yesterday calling on the FTC and nine states to investigate and block Meta's plan to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses.

A privacy, safety, and civil liberties disaster in the making—unless enforcers step up.

epic.org/epic-urges-f...

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Meta hoped to slip one past busy privacy watchdogs and quietly embed facial recognition in its Ray-Ban glasses.

Now they're the target of letters from @epic.org calling on the FTC and state enforcers to step in.

Kudos to my EPIC colleagues, and bravo @kashhill.bsky.social & team for the scoop!

The FTC and state AGs need to act *now* to stop this. Last time Meta slipped facial rec into its products (face tagging), enforcers dawdled. Meta took 11 years to wind it back.

We can't afford a decade of roving FRT-enabled surveillance cameras in every bathroom, clinic, classroom, and protest.

National Lampoon cover with the text if you don't buy ring we'll kill the dog

That Ring ad

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Biblically accurate Olympic cauldron

Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database

"Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless admin in Am. history that it be collected & consolidated. It is important enough that a federal cowboy kept one hand on his phone even as his other hand reached for his gun." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

In fairness her plate is full with important stuff like an IndyCar race no one wants seven months from now.

Minnesota CEOs sent a letter calling for “de-escalation.” They left out that many of them and their trade groups backed the bill that flooded ICE & CBP with $170 billion. Yes, Palantir helps ICE. But ICE was helped along by a bunch of boring companies you interact with daily.

ICE isn’t just brutal. It’s also big business. From 2008 to 2021 ICE spent *$1.2 billion* on geolocation tracking, $561M on data analysis, $252M on government databases, and $97M on data brokers. Most of that went to companies who will lobby for this system to stay in place.

That's fair—I agree with instinct to be skeptical. My point was that we also shouldn't write off anecdotal observations out of hand, particularly when they align with a change in ownership like this. But I understand better what you mean by noise now.

Except dismissing claims about TikTok's algorithm as "just a lot of noise" is at least as speculative as the claims themselves. You (we) aren't in a position to know whether this is signal or noise yet; these may in fact be accurate observations of real changes.

Two sad, fallen Lime scooters glowing beneath the ice

"Fraud" is this administration's roving license to perpetrate authoritarian shit. I point that out because if we ever emerge from this, we're going to have to put some guardrails on how "fraud" is defined, investigated, and enforced.

DDOT makes changes to keep cars off Metro Branch Trail after 7News report The District Department of Transportation has moved concrete planters along the Metropolitan Branch Trail to prevent cars from making their way onto the popular

Very glad to see this! wjla.com/news/local/d...

absolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator

Beyond HIPAA: Reimagining How Privacy Laws Apply to Health Data to Maximize Equity in the Digital Age

The report: epic.org/wp-content/u...

Details on the Beyond HIPAA webinar starting in 10 minutes: epic.org/events/beyon...

Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care.

Huge, sweeping report from my colleague @sarageoghegan.bsky.social and the @epic.org team on how unregulated tech, mass surveillance, and yawning gaps in privacy law have created a health privacy crisis, as covered by WIRED’s @dell.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/survei...

"Abolish ICE" is the moderate position. "Try everyone involved in ICE for crimes against humanity" is the progressive one.

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences