Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own.
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"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."
This could have been a plot line from Better Off Ted.
The lede graph in this article is everything I aspire to be as a writer. I need to up my game when talking about SCOTUS
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
The Global Privacy Control (GPC) will soon be required in all web browsers!
Currently, it can be set in Brave and Firefox, whereas other browsers (e.g., Chrome) need third-party extensions.
If there’s a vacancy, the funniest thing Beshear could do is pull a McConnell and leave it open.
…and so it begins again!
…and now on to [redacted] Field!
Now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Rather than banning U16s.... how about tech platforms rolling out non-harmful products?
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While legal scholars have cited decades of computer science research that demonstrates why anonymity is hard (and that datasets should not be labelled as "
Incredible that Meta's plan to bolster employee morale includes creating an AI career coach ☠️
This paper (abstract below) on the lies the adtech/data broker industry tells courts has finally been published: yjolt.org/anonymity-co...
Joint work with Joel Reardon at U Calgary and Ken Bamberger and Laurel McGrane at Berkeley Law. 1/
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Colleagues and I recently completed a study (to be published in the next few months in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology) in which we evaluated data brokers’ claims: we acquired several million rows from data brokers selling data they claimed to be anonymous and collected with consent.
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