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John Davisson
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Fantastic (if dispiriting) report out from EPIC’s Scholar in Residence @jshermcyber.bsky.social and EPIC’s Caroline Kraczon.
Great rundown from CBPP on this, too: www.cbpp.org/blog/house-b...
“I’m fundamentally an optimist with regard to what we can do with research,” he said. “I’m fundamentally a pessimist with respect to what corporations who are fundamentally beholden to their stockholders do, because they’re always working on short-term appearance.” @johnmarkoff.bsky.social
NEW: Privacy and voting rights case filed against state officials by the LWV of Alaska and Alaska Black Caucus. @epic.org joins ACLU of Alaska and @aclu.org as counsel. We're honored to help Alaskans fight for accountability and defend against unlawful abuse of voter data.
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"This week, the House of Representatives votes on three bills that would permanently formalize the DOGE playbook, risking the privacy and liberty of every American for the sake of unproven fraud prevention methods." epic.org/the-spirit-o...
What she said 👇🏻
To put a finer point on it, it took House Republicans more than a year to come up with this barely-reheated, lukewarm garbage. Shameful *and* embarrassing.
The SECURE Data Act is not a serious effort at tackling the urgent privacy crisis facing this country. It is weaker than many existing state laws (the very state laws that it would wipe off the books with its broad preemption provision). Some examples:
How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones.
Dishonest!
Local governments across Wisconsin have been ending their agreements with the surveillance company Flock Safety. “If police chiefs are bailing on it, that really shows momentum,” says the mayor of Verona, which ended its Flock contract last year.
