Joseph Jerome
@joejerome.com
Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com
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Joseph Jerome
@joejerome.com
· Oct 27
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Podcast Episode · Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell · 10/22/2025 · 47m
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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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People assume that gov’t inaction is the best policy strategy to support Little Tech. We pulled together conservative, progressives, LT companies, investors and found 7 discrete fed. & state policies to support Little Tech that could garner bipartisan and industry support.
February 19, 2026 at 3:57 PM
People assume that gov’t inaction is the best policy strategy to support Little Tech. We pulled together conservative, progressives, LT companies, investors and found 7 discrete fed. & state policies to support Little Tech that could garner bipartisan and industry support.
Posting on Xitter is like desperately seeking validation from an overlord who just does not care. That’s how the algorithm has been structured at this point.
So, why is the entire media and Democratic political establishment insistent on posting there, providing it legitimacy and ad revenue???
I have theories. But no explanation. It is a low-value platform for persuasion and reach. There isn’t a positive case for being active there. They have to quit.
I have theories. But no explanation. It is a low-value platform for persuasion and reach. There isn’t a positive case for being active there. They have to quit.
If you've looked at Xitter anytime recently, it is overwhelmingly (a) bots (b) porn (c) scams (d) Russian/MAGA agitprop.
And of course (e) Musk-worship.
Plus the "legit" institutions that are still on there. As they should not be.
And of course (e) Musk-worship.
Plus the "legit" institutions that are still on there. As they should not be.
February 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Posting on Xitter is like desperately seeking validation from an overlord who just does not care. That’s how the algorithm has been structured at this point.
Wonder if Meta shared this with their Reality Labs Advisory Council? www.meta.com/en-gb/action...
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Wonder if Meta shared this with their Reality Labs Advisory Council? www.meta.com/en-gb/action...
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What are the best Fleetwood Mac songs sung by each singer?
For me?
Lindsey Buckingham: Big Love
Stevie Nicks: Silver Springs
Christine McVie: Songbird
For me?
Lindsey Buckingham: Big Love
Stevie Nicks: Silver Springs
Christine McVie: Songbird
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
What are the best Fleetwood Mac songs sung by each singer?
For me?
Lindsey Buckingham: Big Love
Stevie Nicks: Silver Springs
Christine McVie: Songbird
For me?
Lindsey Buckingham: Big Love
Stevie Nicks: Silver Springs
Christine McVie: Songbird
Label seems accurate to me.
February 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Label seems accurate to me.
Super important perspective: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...
Opinion | OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made. I Quit.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Super important perspective: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...
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Confession: I appropriated the @SOTN theme ""More Than Meets the AI" from last year's @ILPFoundry's Trivia Night. @CenDemTech's won "Best Team Name" with it. CDT won again this year with "Love A(I)sland USA." Expect that to be your 2027 SOTN theme! #sotn26
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Confession: I appropriated the @SOTN theme ""More Than Meets the AI" from last year's @ILPFoundry's Trivia Night. @CenDemTech's won "Best Team Name" with it. CDT won again this year with "Love A(I)sland USA." Expect that to be your 2027 SOTN theme! #sotn26
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There was a Ring ad that everyone hated and an Alexa ad where the subtext is “everyone assumes this thing is trying to kill you” so I think they gotta rethink some shit over there.
February 9, 2026 at 4:10 AM
There was a Ring ad that everyone hated and an Alexa ad where the subtext is “everyone assumes this thing is trying to kill you” so I think they gotta rethink some shit over there.
“Nothing plus nothing equals nothing.” More and earlier light touch intervention could have headed off much of the anticompetitive corporate concentration.
Jonathan Kanter is giving a masterfully entertaining seminar on digital competition at @knightgtown.bsky.social
Jonathan Kanter is giving a masterfully entertaining seminar on digital competition at @knightgtown.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
“Nothing plus nothing equals nothing.” More and earlier light touch intervention could have headed off much of the anticompetitive corporate concentration.
Jonathan Kanter is giving a masterfully entertaining seminar on digital competition at @knightgtown.bsky.social
Jonathan Kanter is giving a masterfully entertaining seminar on digital competition at @knightgtown.bsky.social
Flashbacks to @futureofprivacy.bsky.social circa 2013.
February 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Flashbacks to @futureofprivacy.bsky.social circa 2013.
“The public has waited long enough,” writes @publicknowledge.bsky.social’s @bergmayer.net in an amicus brief challenging Google’s stay delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 5, 2026 at 10:46 PM
“The public has waited long enough,” writes @publicknowledge.bsky.social’s @bergmayer.net in an amicus brief challenging Google’s stay delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be discussing anonymizing search data at @knightgtown.bsky.social's Digital Competition Conference. I worked on de-identification at @futureofprivacy.bsky.social when I joined Privacyland, and hoped I’d escaped it until the DMA came along! kgi.georgetown.edu/events/digit...
Digital Competition Conference 2026 – Knight-Georgetown Institute
kgi.georgetown.edu
February 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be discussing anonymizing search data at @knightgtown.bsky.social's Digital Competition Conference. I worked on de-identification at @futureofprivacy.bsky.social when I joined Privacyland, and hoped I’d escaped it until the DMA came along! kgi.georgetown.edu/events/digit...
I really love when Law & Order tackles tech.
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I really love when Law & Order tackles tech.
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On the use of an AI author alongside humans. goodvr.substack.com/p/ian-is-typ...
Ian Is Typing
On the use of an AI author alongside humans.
goodvr.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:19 PM
On the use of an AI author alongside humans. goodvr.substack.com/p/ian-is-typ...
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Ian Hamilton says he was fired from UploadVR as Editor in Chief after proposing three requests in response to a "clearly disclosed AI author" experiment pushed by his colleagues: brevity, an option for readers to opt-out from all AI content, & human writer right of 1st refusal to an assignment.
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Ian Hamilton says he was fired from UploadVR as Editor in Chief after proposing three requests in response to a "clearly disclosed AI author" experiment pushed by his colleagues: brevity, an option for readers to opt-out from all AI content, & human writer right of 1st refusal to an assignment.
As an Iowan, what an embarrassment.
Hell yes! Many of us have been following this story from the beginning, and I'm SO glad to see it resolved finally...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
January 30, 2026 at 5:54 AM
As an Iowan, what an embarrassment.
We’re more than a decade into the app world, and still basic security issues pop up with the most high risk information.
January 28, 2026 at 6:29 PM
We’re more than a decade into the app world, and still basic security issues pop up with the most high risk information.
"With today’s proceedings we want to help Google by explaining in more detail how it should comply with its interoperability and online search data sharing obligations under the Digital Markets Act.” ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission opens proceedings to assist Google in complying with interoperability and online search data sharing obligations under the Digital Markets Act
Today, the European Commission has started two sets of specification proceedings to assist Google in complying with its obligations under the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA\'). The specification proceeding...
ec.europa.eu
January 27, 2026 at 4:55 PM
"With today’s proceedings we want to help Google by explaining in more detail how it should comply with its interoperability and online search data sharing obligations under the Digital Markets Act.” ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
"Lawmakers could have seized a rare bipartisan moment to create durable digital policy. Instead, Congress opted for a fast and flashy response that left the hard work undone."
Congress claimed it was passing the "TikTok ban" bill to protect American data privacy, but the results from last week's deal to save the US version of the short-form video app show anything but. Read the latest from @publicknowledge.bsky.social Director of Government Affairs Sara Collins:
Congress Picked a Fight With TikTok When It Should Have Fixed Tech Policy
Congress' bipartisan mobilization for the so-called "TikTok ban" was a missed opportunity for American data privacy.
publicknowledge.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:08 PM
"Lawmakers could have seized a rare bipartisan moment to create durable digital policy. Instead, Congress opted for a fast and flashy response that left the hard work undone."
We should expect that the leading adtech groups will be contributing to this RFI, right? sam.gov/workspace/co...
Sam Acquisition 360
sam.gov
January 25, 2026 at 8:22 PM
We should expect that the leading adtech groups will be contributing to this RFI, right? sam.gov/workspace/co...
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The original argument for banning TikTok was data privacy concerns.
Yet US social media and video apps collected the exact some data, but they were never threatened with a ban.
A real solution would have been to ban / regulate them all.
But it was always about who controlled / monetized TikTok.
Yet US social media and video apps collected the exact some data, but they were never threatened with a ban.
A real solution would have been to ban / regulate them all.
But it was always about who controlled / monetized TikTok.
TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.
They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
January 24, 2026 at 12:43 AM
The original argument for banning TikTok was data privacy concerns.
Yet US social media and video apps collected the exact some data, but they were never threatened with a ban.
A real solution would have been to ban / regulate them all.
But it was always about who controlled / monetized TikTok.
Yet US social media and video apps collected the exact some data, but they were never threatened with a ban.
A real solution would have been to ban / regulate them all.
But it was always about who controlled / monetized TikTok.
Highly recommend @cobun.bsky.social’s @iapp.bsky.social column for a super clear overview of the traditional privacy challenges presented by AI chatbots. Also notes the People-First Chatbot Bill, which could be a model for where civil society is on these tools: iapp.org/news/a/a-vie...
A view from DC: We need to talk about chatbot privacy | IAPP
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his thoughts on the latest privacy and AI governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S.
iapp.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Highly recommend @cobun.bsky.social’s @iapp.bsky.social column for a super clear overview of the traditional privacy challenges presented by AI chatbots. Also notes the People-First Chatbot Bill, which could be a model for where civil society is on these tools: iapp.org/news/a/a-vie...
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absolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator
January 22, 2026 at 4:09 PM
absolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator
AR may have motivated my sojourn to work at Meta, but in those heady days of the metaverse, there were some really cool things going on in VR. Alas, it wasn’t to be. techcrunch.com/2026/01/19/w...
Well, there goes the metaverse! | TechCrunch
The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ambitions.
techcrunch.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM
AR may have motivated my sojourn to work at Meta, but in those heady days of the metaverse, there were some really cool things going on in VR. Alas, it wasn’t to be. techcrunch.com/2026/01/19/w...