MD has a fairly robust #privacy law that doesn't include broad exemptions for educational institutions or nonprofits like most states. But no school will trigger the processing thresholds (35,000+ consumers or 10,000+ consumers and 20% revenue from data sales). We need a truly comprehensive law.

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger.

Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

This is niche as hell, but if it’s not your thing, just know that it’s devastatingly funny.

If #AI is an existential threat to humanity, at least it will give us a soundtrack to the end times. Thanks for the morning heebeejeebies, Spotify.

An interesting aspect of the first suit under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA” (preferably pronounced like calling a kitten)) is that half of the defendants are exempted from the obligations of the TDPSA and all are exempted from most other state comprehensive #privacy laws. #thread

Tyler Childers lives in my hometown and he signed a guitar that is being auctioned to raise money to help a mutual friend, Byron Roberts. If you’re a fan of Tyler’s or know someone who is, please check it out: highpointrealtyandauction.hibid.com/catalog/6103...

Privacy/security poet laureate @btretick.bsky.social is supposedly here, but hasn’t posted. Come on, Brian, it’s the second week of Advent and BlueSky needs ‘Twas the Night Before the Breach.

When can the government read your email? When can they search your phone? And how are courts trying adapt the 1791 Fourth Amendment to the digital world? Pre-order my new book, "The Digital Fourth Amendment," at the link below. Comes out January 10th. www.amazon.com/Digital-Four...

I had a blast geeking out about Brandeis in front of the American Inn of Courts named for him. The US has changed more around #privacy in the past 6 years than in the 134 since he wrote the right into existence, but his contributions to the field continue to be relevant. #LawSky

Wrote about how Bluesky is booming because it's giving users precisely what the tech giants are taking away

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/blueskys-s...

I sat in a field beside a rapid stream from before sunrise until now. And for a time, I rest in the grace of the world.

Privacy regulators from across Canada have issued a joint resolution calling for action on the growing use of deceptive design patterns (DDPs) that undermine privacy rights.

The European Data Protection Board adopts its first report under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and a statement on the recommendations on access to data for law enforcement

www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/20...

#EUDataP

1990s: Meet Virginia
2000s: Drops of Jupiter
2010s: Hey Soul Sister
2020s: ?

It’s time for Train to release an inexplicable hit.

I’ve found some cool people on this app but I still haven’t found my best sky friend.

Financial institutions are baffled when I explain that the most restrictive rules apply to the least sensitive data they have, while wide carve-outs for GLBA leave few rules for the data consumers most wish to protect. It’s not a patchwork, it’s a mess.

www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/new...

Louis Brandeis was born 168 years ago today! Brandeis & his law partner, Samuel Warren, wrote The Right To Privacy, perhaps the most influential law review article of all time. If you haven’t read it yet, Brandeis’ birthday is a great day to read it. www.jstor.org/stable/1321160

My people.