Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
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Another egregious assault on privacy.
MacFarlane: A commercial airline pilot near Reagan National Airport earlier this week reported a safety concern—or safety incident—from a lighting display potentially connected to the UFC construction site on the White House South Lawn.
NEW: WIRED reviewed hundreds of links hosted on Grok dot com and found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities, and at least one prominent US politician, months after xAI said it would stop.
By @mattburgess1.bsky.social
Currently watching the House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, where they are discussing the expansive surveillance powers of ICE. They are citing reporting by myself, as well as colleagues at the Wpost, Wired, 404, and other news outlets:
www.c-span.org/event/public...
Congratulations to @cwarzel.bsky.social for the best opening lines to an essay I’ve read in a long time:
“Shooters shoot. Builders build. And DOGE alumni make splashy announcements about entering complex industries with scant qualifications while promising to “root out waste.”
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Officer confronts man who took nude pictures of a minor on his phone. Officer demands man give him the phone, & threatens man with obstruction if he won't hand it over. CA8: Exigent circumstances allowed the phone's seizure given risk of deletion. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/06...
It's out! Are you nervous about rebuilding government capacity to do anything beyond corporate giveaways and/or fascism? Then you care about civil service hiring dysfunction & the ron swanson-pilled mythologies that made it like this.
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Some good news
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A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP). This masks your IP address, which can be an...
Lung cancer is most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide.
Scientists have found a set of biomarkers that accurately predict lunch cancers 5y before diagnosis. Smoking & pollution increase the level of these proteins, activating specific inflammatory pathways.
🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...
Belatedly sharing my latest article, forthcoming (soon!) in the American University Law Review. I argue that federal hiring dysfunction is an overlooked obstacle for progressive efforts to structurally & intellectually rebuild a hollowed-out regulatory state. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics.
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A half-century of remodeling agency workforces against corporate blueprints has hollowed out the civil service, enervated oversight, and facilitated the
New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics.
