Kate Sim
@katejsim.bsky.social
COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research
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Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
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Kate Sim
@katejsim.bsky.social
· Feb 26
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COSPR - Children's Online Safety and Privacy Research investigates the intersection of children’s safety, privacy, tech policy.
The child safety conversation needs a fundamental reorientation. It needs to take both safety and privacy seriously.
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COSPR - Children's Online Safety and Privacy Research investigates the intersection of children’s safety, privacy, tech policy.
The child safety conversation needs a fundamental reorientation. It needs to take both safety and privacy seriously.
💌 Sign up to connect with us! cospr.net
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READ: Palestinian women in Gaza have faced widespread sexual violence during the Israeli genocide. Despite mountains of evidence, human rights groups face difficulties pursuing justice, as women live in fear of social stigma and reprisal from Israel.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/afte...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/afte...
After the Rape: The challenges of monitoring sexual violence in Gaza
Palestinian women in Gaza have faced widespread sexual violence during the Israeli genocide. Despite mountains of evidence, human rights groups face difficulties pursuing justice, as women live in…
mondoweiss.net
December 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
READ: Palestinian women in Gaza have faced widespread sexual violence during the Israeli genocide. Despite mountains of evidence, human rights groups face difficulties pursuing justice, as women live in fear of social stigma and reprisal from Israel.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/afte...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/afte...
What a way to wrap up the year by sharing COSPR's work at #39c3! Antagonistic framing of children's safety vs. adults' privacy does no one good. We need critical connections to move us towards effective, compassionate, and enduring interventions.
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-a...
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-a...
December 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What a way to wrap up the year by sharing COSPR's work at #39c3! Antagonistic framing of children's safety vs. adults' privacy does no one good. We need critical connections to move us towards effective, compassionate, and enduring interventions.
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-a...
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-a...
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#39c3 @katejsim.bsky.social
Not an Impasse: Child Safety, Privacy, and Healing Together
events.ccc.de/congress/202...
Not an Impasse: Child Safety, Privacy, and Healing Together
events.ccc.de/congress/202...
[39c3] Not an Impasse: Child Safety, Privacy, and Healing Together
There is a path forward! Many, in fact. But the impasse framing seriously limits how policymakers, technologists, advocates, and our communities understand child sexual abuse (CSA). We need informed, ...
events.ccc.de
December 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#39c3 @katejsim.bsky.social
Not an Impasse: Child Safety, Privacy, and Healing Together
events.ccc.de/congress/202...
Not an Impasse: Child Safety, Privacy, and Healing Together
events.ccc.de/congress/202...
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As both the House & Senate look to repeal Section 230, I'm curious who they think should be held liable for the comments they've left open on the Epstein photo dump...? Them? Dropbox?
Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?
Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
As both the House & Senate look to repeal Section 230, I'm curious who they think should be held liable for the comments they've left open on the Epstein photo dump...? Them? Dropbox?
Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?
Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?
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We spent long time studying the question "does training data filtering help prevent generative models from generating unwanted content?"
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
Our new paper demonstrates that removing images of children from training datasets of text-to-image models fails to prevent the misuse of these models to generate child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). A thread 🧵
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We spent long time studying the question "does training data filtering help prevent generative models from generating unwanted content?"
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
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Happening TODAY! Tune in!
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Happening TODAY! Tune in!
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TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online.
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
badinternetbills.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online.
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
badinternetbills.com
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On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.
I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start.
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.
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404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and how people are resisting this tech.
Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.
Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and how people are resisting this tech.
Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.
Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.
Looking forward to my first CCC in a few weeks to talk about what privacy preserving, principled approach to children's online safety looks like!
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Looking forward to my first CCC in a few weeks to talk about what privacy preserving, principled approach to children's online safety looks like!
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
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Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.
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NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
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The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
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Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
What do you mean you are she/her divine earth mother bill from cuomo's schoolhouse rock AI slop for halloween
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What do you mean you are she/her divine earth mother bill from cuomo's schoolhouse rock AI slop for halloween
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Every time.
So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Every time.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
The wait is over. Cant wait to read this! @lalouverouge.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The wait is over. Cant wait to read this! @lalouverouge.bsky.social
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Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!?
That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.
Let me explain...
That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.
Let me explain...
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!?
That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.
Let me explain...
That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.
Let me explain...
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“The case shows how American law enforcement can use ChatGPT prompts to gather data on users suspected of criminal activity.”
OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts
First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
www.forbes.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“The case shows how American law enforcement can use ChatGPT prompts to gather data on users suspected of criminal activity.”
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The only "tech innovation" I want is in guillotines.
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The only "tech innovation" I want is in guillotines.
V moving interview from @palumboliu.bsky.social with the youth organizers of South Bay Youth Changemakers!
speakingoutofplace.com/2025/10/16/s...
speakingoutofplace.com/2025/10/16/s...
South Bay Youth Changemakers: Going Beyond the Stereotype of “Asian American” to Realize a Broad Sense of Community and Activism in Silicon Valley | Speaking Out OF Place
speakingoutofplace.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
V moving interview from @palumboliu.bsky.social with the youth organizers of South Bay Youth Changemakers!
speakingoutofplace.com/2025/10/16/s...
speakingoutofplace.com/2025/10/16/s...
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“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”
Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim
A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.
futurism.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”
Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
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What could go wrong.
Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product ...
www.eff.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
What could go wrong.
Thanks for having me @skipintroyt.bsky.social !
In case you missed it in the news churn yesterday, I have a new video out about Adolescence, the Online Safety Act, and how the police thrive on moral panics
Huge thanks to @katejsim.bsky.social and Peter Squires for lending me their expertise!!
Huge thanks to @katejsim.bsky.social and Peter Squires for lending me their expertise!!
🚨🚨 NEW VIDEO 🚨🚨
Netflix's Adolescence has taken the UK by storm, shining a light on the impact of internet misogyny on young boys.
But Adolescence and the discourse around it mirror moral panics of the past, from online predators to knife crime to mugging
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imLc...
Netflix's Adolescence has taken the UK by storm, shining a light on the impact of internet misogyny on young boys.
But Adolescence and the discourse around it mirror moral panics of the past, from online predators to knife crime to mugging
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imLc...
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thanks for having me @skipintroyt.bsky.social !