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We live in a world of complex, messy systems and few simple answers. I'm curious about all of it, especially the interplay between those systems, and […] [bridged from https://insights.priva.cat/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/insights.priva.cat ]

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Agentic AI Browsers are Privacy Disasters Researchers expose the privacy disaster that is Agentic AI Browsers. I break it all down.
04.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Technology Is Destroying Friction. And That's a Huge Problem
01.11.2025 10:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Defense of Smart Weirdos: What I Learned at an AI Safety Law-a-Thon I forgot just how much I miss that kind of crazy nerd energy.
28.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who Doesn't Love Change ? Just a heads up to the change-averse: I'm shifting focus on this blog. I won't be upset if you decide it's not for you any longer.
14.09.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Orwell Didn't Predict Grok, But He Did Anticipate This Tweet Elon Musk is the poster child for not doing ketamine. But when he said the quiet part of the AI arms race out loud, I still got worried.
23.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't Go To America: Your Data Puts You At Risk. No, that trip to Disneyland really isn't worth it.
16.06.2025 08:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The DPC Gives Meta a Green Light to Train on EU User Personal Data Starting Tomorrow If you're in the EU, this is the last day you've got to opt out of Meta scraping all your posts from Facebook & IG to train its AI
26.05.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Do Cakes and LLMs Have in Common? I spoke at the recent IAPP Barcelona event and I learned so much about communicating complex ideas and the value of translation, precisely because I don't really speak Spanish!
23.05.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Arrivederci, Venice, Hola Barcelona! A few thoughts on this year's Venice Privacy Symposium, and an upcoming speaking gig in Barcelona!
17.05.2025 21:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Using Microsoft Recall? Welcome to Hell Microsoft never reads my blog posts, but really they should, because Recall is a Privacy Disaster
02.05.2025 12:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The EU Commission Tells Meta No Way to 'Pay or Ok' Under DMA They also tell Apple to knock it off when it comes to the App Store.
23.04.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Catastrophe-Mode, and Maintaining Privacy In Authoritarian Times Timothy Snyder's book, On Tyranny, offers 20 lessons on how to survive authoritarianism. I share some thoughts on Lesson 14 -- Establish a private life.
18.04.2025 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mad King Trump Wants His Own Palantír Orange Julius Caesar signed a new Executive Order seeking to centralize US government data. I explain why this is a terrible thing, by way of my generally poor grasp of Lord of the Rings lore.
08.04.2025 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unleashed and Unlawful: How DOGE Violates the Privacy Act FAFO doesn't work in the US Government, and yet nobody bothered to let Elon or the Administration know.
26.03.2025 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Privacy As Resistance: Things are Changing This blog will be undergoing a few changes—given the state of the world, everything sacred feels like it’s under threat. Constantly. And I need to do something.
24.03.2025 09:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dispatches on Privacy from SXSW: Jazz Improv Edition I relate my speaker style to jazz improv, and share some thoughts on other SXSW sessions I attended.
13.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dispatches on Privacy from SXSW I'm at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week, and, well it's a spectacle.
08.03.2025 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can the Privacy Act Put a Muzzle on DOGE? Part II of a three-part analysis of the DOGE debacle and how a little-known privacy law might contain this rabid beast.
04.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can the Privacy Act Put a Muzzle on DOGE? Part I of a three-part analysis of the DOGE debacle and how a little-known privacy law might contain this rabid beast.
03.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wanna Meet Up? (SXSW, Venice Privacy Symposium & Barcelona Meetup) Are you a reader? Would you like to meet up? Here's where I'll be!
28.02.2025 12:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Breach or Blessing? Lessons from a Suppression List Slip-Up A cautionary tale about a client who accidentally sent an 'oops' email, and what data protection lessons we can all learn from it.
19.02.2025 21:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Should We Be Able to Read ChatGPT's Mind? Where I explain why knowing everything AI knows about you might drive you crazy.
15.02.2025 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Need Our Claws Out to Protect our Privacy and Fundamental Rights I share some of my favorite organizations, tech & laws for maintaining purr-sistent resistance against fascists, big tech, and the broligarchy. Also a lovely cat-themed book (and pictures!)
11.02.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Diving Deeper into DeepSeek You're in for a treat -- A guest post by Pete (aka Crapotkin), who has been doing a deep seek when it comes to the company's ToS & API terms.
04.02.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Episode 12 - Chance Conversations: Privacy, Justice, and Toddlers with Nukes! A Dive into the Mind of Rowenna Fielding Fearless advocacy, toddlers, ethics, and puffins. C'mon, you know that sounds interesting.
04.02.2025 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bon Dia, Catalonia! I will be visiting Spain and Andorra May 18-25. Let's organize a meetup!
03.02.2025 16:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dear Tech Companies: Please Stop Stepping on Your Own Dicks Forcing users to decipher what you do with their data is a terrible idea.
01.02.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From Frustration to Automation: How I Built a LLM-Powered Legal Case Summarizer Programming generally scares me, but with the combined power of ChatGPT, Python, Obsidian and annoyance, I managed to write a pretty rad legal case summarizer anyway.
27.01.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Episode 11: Building Bridges: A Conversation with Debbie Reynolds Find out how rehabbing homes and building bridges are critical to success for Debbie.
21.01.2025 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Follow Up on 'Does Proton Still Stand for Anything' ? Andy Yen reached out to me on LinkedIn, and I wanted to share my thoughts on our conversation.
19.01.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0