Stav Zeitouni
@stzeitouni.bsky.social
Postdoc, Berkeley Law
NYU Law & Hebrew University alum
Writing about privacy, copyright and law & psychology (and occasionally Israel/Palestine)
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NYU Law & Hebrew University alum
Writing about privacy, copyright and law & psychology (and occasionally Israel/Palestine)
🍂🫒
Nuanced comparisons are useful and there have been times where I've seen them deployed successfully. This piece nevertheless highlights a contradiction in how we talk about these comparisons -
Great essay by @returnstosender.bsky.social on translating Yiddish and Russian Holocaust literature during times of ongoing genocide. lithub.com/translating-...
Translating Holocaust Literature in Times of Genocide
While designing a poster for a lecture on our new book, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union (Stanford University Press), one of the event’s organiz…
lithub.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Nuanced comparisons are useful and there have been times where I've seen them deployed successfully. This piece nevertheless highlights a contradiction in how we talk about these comparisons -
Zero interest in joining the Discourse on antisemitism on the left that has popped up on my tl in the last few days. Every time it starts being discussed I am reminded anew just how unsafe most left spaces are, and honestly makes me never want to engage.
February 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Zero interest in joining the Discourse on antisemitism on the left that has popped up on my tl in the last few days. Every time it starts being discussed I am reminded anew just how unsafe most left spaces are, and honestly makes me never want to engage.
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THE 8TH ANNUAL PRIVACI SYMPOSIUM
https://privaci.info/symposium/2026/cfp.html
We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
IMPORTANT DATES
All […]
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https://privaci.info/symposium/2026/cfp.html
We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
IMPORTANT DATES
All […]
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February 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
THE 8TH ANNUAL PRIVACI SYMPOSIUM
https://privaci.info/symposium/2026/cfp.html
We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
IMPORTANT DATES
All […]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
https://privaci.info/symposium/2026/cfp.html
We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
IMPORTANT DATES
All […]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
This is a good overview of the surveillance tech powering ICE's work. For a deeper dive, would highly recommend @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social American Dragnet report & policy recommendations - originally published in 2022, with a new forward from May 2025.
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
This is a good overview of the surveillance tech powering ICE's work. For a deeper dive, would highly recommend @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social American Dragnet report & policy recommendations - originally published in 2022, with a new forward from May 2025.
"imagine if we applied due process norms to immigration" is the 2026 counterpart to 2001's "imagine if we applied due process norms to privacy" - this should be a straightforward choice for anyone who believes in democracy, and yet
Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases:
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
"imagine if we applied due process norms to immigration" is the 2026 counterpart to 2001's "imagine if we applied due process norms to privacy" - this should be a straightforward choice for anyone who believes in democracy, and yet
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A preview of @weissmann.substack.com and my discussion of the federal government's outrageous response to the Alex Pretti shooting.
Full video and sharable link: youtu.be/tlnmFvlgeck?...
Full video and sharable link: youtu.be/tlnmFvlgeck?...
January 25, 2026 at 7:46 PM
A preview of @weissmann.substack.com and my discussion of the federal government's outrageous response to the Alex Pretti shooting.
Full video and sharable link: youtu.be/tlnmFvlgeck?...
Full video and sharable link: youtu.be/tlnmFvlgeck?...
Spent the better part of the day with a good friend I met when we were both in middle school in MN. I don't think I can explain just how deep the heartbreak and outrage go.
January 25, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Spent the better part of the day with a good friend I met when we were both in middle school in MN. I don't think I can explain just how deep the heartbreak and outrage go.
Timely reading from 1996.
January 21, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Timely reading from 1996.
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Frame by Frame Analysis: How Minneapolis Woman Exercised Her Rights in ICE Encounter
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
January 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Frame by Frame Analysis: How Minneapolis Woman Exercised Her Rights in ICE Encounter
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
@weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video.
Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check"
Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...
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Happy to share new resource, The Rule of Law Teaching Project w/videos by constitutional law professors from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU & more, RuleofLaw101.org. @leahlitman.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @jmchacon.bsky.social @richardre.bsky.social Trailer here: youtu.be/ILpR3UMlwOM?...
Meet the Law Professors in the Rule of Law Teaching Project
YouTube video by Rule of Law 101
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Happy to share new resource, The Rule of Law Teaching Project w/videos by constitutional law professors from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU & more, RuleofLaw101.org. @leahlitman.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @jmchacon.bsky.social @richardre.bsky.social Trailer here: youtu.be/ILpR3UMlwOM?...
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I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the Radio Preservat...
current.org
January 11, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!
Can 100% guarantee this is not what Oliver Wendell Holmes meant when he said that the law can ask no better justification than the deepest instincts of man
Trump, in an interview with the NYT, says he wants to take over Greenland because it's "psychologically important" for him personally
January 12, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Can 100% guarantee this is not what Oliver Wendell Holmes meant when he said that the law can ask no better justification than the deepest instincts of man
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🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP: @ag.state.mn.us and @hennepinatty.bsky.social have launched an investigation into the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
Please share videos, photos, or info via their secure portal:
hennepinprosecutor.evidence.com/axon/communi...
Please share videos, photos, or info via their secure portal:
hennepinprosecutor.evidence.com/axon/communi...
January 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP: @ag.state.mn.us and @hennepinatty.bsky.social have launched an investigation into the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
Please share videos, photos, or info via their secure portal:
hennepinprosecutor.evidence.com/axon/communi...
Please share videos, photos, or info via their secure portal:
hennepinprosecutor.evidence.com/axon/communi...
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
The poetryxlaw crossover made especially for me and my niche interests 😍
On the last day of this year, I’m proud to share the tool I’ve spent the better part of year co-creating with my RA to let anyone make what I call “redactive poetry” from legal documents. I’d be thrilled if you tried our Redactive Layering Technology (ReLaTe): www.tepski.tech/redaction
December 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The poetryxlaw crossover made especially for me and my niche interests 😍
Actually the perfect screenshot
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Actually the perfect screenshot
I got this ad on YouTube and genuinely could not tell if it's a parody for a minute.
Has there ever been a better encapsulation of what AI will bring to the world.
Has there ever been a better encapsulation of what AI will bring to the world.
December 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I got this ad on YouTube and genuinely could not tell if it's a parody for a minute.
Has there ever been a better encapsulation of what AI will bring to the world.
Has there ever been a better encapsulation of what AI will bring to the world.
This! One of my first thoughts upon moving to the Bay Area was that the BART could go much further.
Just on a purely selfish level, there are several big universities in its range but they're *so* badly connected. It shouldn't take 2-3 hrs one way from Berkeley to Stanford on train tracks.
Just on a purely selfish level, there are several big universities in its range but they're *so* badly connected. It shouldn't take 2-3 hrs one way from Berkeley to Stanford on train tracks.
But there's no doubt that these things supplant the imagination of what could be otherwise: a well-funded Muni or BART and the expansion of routes to last mile/last steps locations.
The audacity of a $100 billion valuation, reports of which made just days before this disaster, makes me furious.
The audacity of a $100 billion valuation, reports of which made just days before this disaster, makes me furious.
December 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This! One of my first thoughts upon moving to the Bay Area was that the BART could go much further.
Just on a purely selfish level, there are several big universities in its range but they're *so* badly connected. It shouldn't take 2-3 hrs one way from Berkeley to Stanford on train tracks.
Just on a purely selfish level, there are several big universities in its range but they're *so* badly connected. It shouldn't take 2-3 hrs one way from Berkeley to Stanford on train tracks.
Honestly one of the worst things about social media is how little space there is to just grieve. Mourning is a communal activity and yet we've made it so fraught to just exist with each other in that space.
December 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Honestly one of the worst things about social media is how little space there is to just grieve. Mourning is a communal activity and yet we've made it so fraught to just exist with each other in that space.
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Not the most important thing here, but Thaler v. Perlmutter says AI systems can't be authors. That means that the "corresponding human" can't claim copyright in these papers, which makes the "paper info" section nonsensical. You can't license what you're not an author of!
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Not the most important thing here, but Thaler v. Perlmutter says AI systems can't be authors. That means that the "corresponding human" can't claim copyright in these papers, which makes the "paper info" section nonsensical. You can't license what you're not an author of!
Feeling this very much rn, as I struggle with the ninth iteration of a paper
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Feeling this very much rn, as I struggle with the ninth iteration of a paper
The proposed list of data CBP seeks to add to ESTA is dystopian: not only facial recognition, but DNA & iris scans and social media from the last 5 years.
Also note: the larger # of hours it will take to process all this, especially with shift only to mobile app.
Deadline to comment is Feb. 9!
Also note: the larger # of hours it will take to process all this, especially with shift only to mobile app.
Deadline to comment is Feb. 9!
December 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The proposed list of data CBP seeks to add to ESTA is dystopian: not only facial recognition, but DNA & iris scans and social media from the last 5 years.
Also note: the larger # of hours it will take to process all this, especially with shift only to mobile app.
Deadline to comment is Feb. 9!
Also note: the larger # of hours it will take to process all this, especially with shift only to mobile app.
Deadline to comment is Feb. 9!
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It's (almost) my birthday again, which means it's also the time of year when Rabbis for Human Rights do their annual fundraiser.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
A Time to Act
Thank you for supporting our end-of-year campaign. Help us build a future of justice, dignity, and equality. Now is the time to act.
causematch.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's (almost) my birthday again, which means it's also the time of year when Rabbis for Human Rights do their annual fundraiser.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
It's (almost) my birthday again, which means it's also the time of year when Rabbis for Human Rights do their annual fundraiser.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
A Time to Act
Thank you for supporting our end-of-year campaign. Help us build a future of justice, dignity, and equality. Now is the time to act.
causematch.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's (almost) my birthday again, which means it's also the time of year when Rabbis for Human Rights do their annual fundraiser.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.