Joseph Jerome
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Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?
Podcast Episode · Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell · 10/22/2025 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
Humble brag: excited to join the line-up of guests that @rickysutton.bsky.social and Alan Chapell have had on the Future Media Podcast to talk about AI, competition, surveillance, and where the browser fits in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
"Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.”
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This is part of a global push to roll back privacy laws by companies that are constantly in trouble for violating privacy laws.
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
At a time when US-based social media companies are platforming far right extremism in the EU, Meta is trying to get the Irish government to front their assault on EU privacy laws.
web.archive.org/web/20251030...
web.archive.org/web/20251030...
Data protection rules ‘completely out of control’, Meta tells Government
Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level
web.archive.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is part of a global push to roll back privacy laws by companies that are constantly in trouble for violating privacy laws.
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
Reposted by Joseph Jerome
The law firm that has represented data broker Kochava in its 3-year legal battle with the FTC over privacy is seeking to withdraw due to "serious and irreparable breakdown in communication."
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The law firm that has represented data broker Kochava in its 3-year legal battle with the FTC over privacy is seeking to withdraw due to "serious and irreparable breakdown in communication."
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
This idea from @esquiring.bsky.social is totally doable but has minimal chance of being embraced by Meta.
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This idea from @esquiring.bsky.social is totally doable but has minimal chance of being embraced by Meta.
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wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’
“It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
The “open Android model” requires a locked down Google-controlled app store? www.theverge.com/news/807703/...
Google has officially petitioned the Supreme Court in Epic v. Google.
In the meanwhile, on October 29th, Google will have to change its Android app store in big ways. “While we will comply, it forces us to weaken vital security protections, jeopardizing user safety and ...
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The “open Android model” requires a locked down Google-controlled app store? www.theverge.com/news/807703/...
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Today, the smart home died a little...
Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
Here’s how to opt out.
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Today, the smart home died a little...
Humble brag: excited to join the line-up of guests that @rickysutton.bsky.social and Alan Chapell have had on the Future Media Podcast to talk about AI, competition, surveillance, and where the browser fits in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?
Podcast Episode · Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell · 10/22/2025 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Humble brag: excited to join the line-up of guests that @rickysutton.bsky.social and Alan Chapell have had on the Future Media Podcast to talk about AI, competition, surveillance, and where the browser fits in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Inject this into my veins:
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Inject this into my veins:
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
This is a fantastic breakdown of why the court’s “humble” assumption of genAI as a search market disruptor is based on a half-dozen flawed assumptions.
NEW: Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Kshirsagar (@princetoncitp.bsky.social) analyzes the barriers to entry these startups still face.
Will GenAI Break Google’s Dominance in Search? - ProMarket
Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Kshirsagar analyzes the barriers to entry these startups face—scale, distribution, defaults, data and integration advantages, and content access—to show how Big Tech is still in control of the future of the search industry.
www.promarket.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is a fantastic breakdown of why the court’s “humble” assumption of genAI as a search market disruptor is based on a half-dozen flawed assumptions.
I really love when SVU does a tech episode. Here’s my take on RFID chips eight years ago: iapp.org/news/a/embed...
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I really love when SVU does a tech episode. Here’s my take on RFID chips eight years ago: iapp.org/news/a/embed...
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Got some light weekend reading for y’all.
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me
This very first-gen device raises several questions about where the next chapter of mobile computing is headed.
www.theverge.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Got some light weekend reading for y’all.
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
“Kavanaugh Stop.”
Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Kavanaugh Stop.”
Oh boy! Law & Order SVU turned into a Section 230 episode.
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Oh boy! Law & Order SVU turned into a Section 230 episode.
It’s the data, stupid. It’s always been the data.
Emily Tucker's latest piece for Tech Policy Press argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power.
To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press
Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It’s the data, stupid. It’s always been the data.
Qualified Immunity needs to end.
ICE drags US citizen out of her car and arrests her because ICE hit HER car
Chicago PD: you can see the license plate of the ICE vehicle. Let's see vehicular assault and kidnapping charges against the Gestapo who did this
www.facebook.com/573100845/po...
Chicago PD: you can see the license plate of the ICE vehicle. Let's see vehicular assault and kidnapping charges against the Gestapo who did this
www.facebook.com/573100845/po...
Mark Lemley
ICE drags US citizen out of her car and arrests her because ICE hit HER car
Chicago PD: you can see the license plate of the ICE vehicle. Let's see vehicular assault and kidnapping charges against...
www.facebook.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Qualified Immunity needs to end.
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This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
“The law turns privacy rights in California from theoretical to tangible. It could be a model for the country.”
@shiraovide.bsky.social on #GPC: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/
@shiraovide.bsky.social on #GPC: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/
The Tech Friend: The big reason to think twice before buying a smart ring? Their batteries.
s2.washingtonpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“The law turns privacy rights in California from theoretical to tangible. It could be a model for the country.”
@shiraovide.bsky.social on #GPC: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/
@shiraovide.bsky.social on #GPC: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/
Jon Sallet from the Colorado AG discussing Google’s search dominance flywheel at an excellent lunch put on by @knightgtown.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Jon Sallet from the Colorado AG discussing Google’s search dominance flywheel at an excellent lunch put on by @knightgtown.bsky.social
“[Artificial intelligence] was promised as a magical solution to all sorts of things. In practice, it’s not ready for that,” said Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Analysis | Americans have become more pessimistic about AI. Why?
Four theories to explain the surveys that keep showing sour public opinion about AI.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“[Artificial intelligence] was promised as a magical solution to all sorts of things. In practice, it’s not ready for that,” said Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Overheard in a TSA line:
Agent to kid: How old are you? Are you twelve?
Kid to agent, merrily: No, I’m thirteen!
Agent to kid: Got clothes on under that hoody?
Kid to agent, confused: Yes?
Agent to kid: Take it off! Welcome to adulthood.
Everyone laughs. I cry.
Agent to kid: How old are you? Are you twelve?
Kid to agent, merrily: No, I’m thirteen!
Agent to kid: Got clothes on under that hoody?
Kid to agent, confused: Yes?
Agent to kid: Take it off! Welcome to adulthood.
Everyone laughs. I cry.
a man in a knight 's helmet says take it off or i will
ALT: a man in a knight 's helmet says take it off or i will
media.tenor.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Overheard in a TSA line:
Agent to kid: How old are you? Are you twelve?
Kid to agent, merrily: No, I’m thirteen!
Agent to kid: Got clothes on under that hoody?
Kid to agent, confused: Yes?
Agent to kid: Take it off! Welcome to adulthood.
Everyone laughs. I cry.
Agent to kid: How old are you? Are you twelve?
Kid to agent, merrily: No, I’m thirteen!
Agent to kid: Got clothes on under that hoody?
Kid to agent, confused: Yes?
Agent to kid: Take it off! Welcome to adulthood.
Everyone laughs. I cry.