Eric Null
LightNews LightNews
banner
nullset.bsky.social
Eric Null
@nullset.bsky.social
1.1K followers 350 following 300 posts
Public policy (tech/privacy) by day, everything else by night

Co-Director Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology, @cendemtech.bsky.social.

Views expressed here are mine: hastily adopted, uninformed, and deeply held.

He/him!
Posts Replies Media Videos
nullset.bsky.social
Not a bad thing to wake up to

#AIMoratorium: so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye!
tweet from Diego Areas Munhoz saying Senate removed AI moratorium from reconciliation package, 99-1 vote.
July 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
nullset.bsky.social
I can tell you from experience, if an elected official is telling you legislation they have a strong interest in passing is "very simple," they're taking you for a ride.
Cruz stating his revised AI moratorium is "very simple"
June 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
nullset.bsky.social
Perhaps the most disingenuous #AIMoratorium take I've read. I guess by "creating a single national standard" he means creating *no* standard whatsoever? The standard is lawlessness.
Commerce Sec claiming the AI moratorium "creat[es] a single national standard on AI"
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
nullset.bsky.social
You’ve got to be kidding
Claims DC policies “opened to the door to disorder” like “let[ting] rioters run loose even if they vandalize property and assault police.”
March 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
nullset.bsky.social
#FTC Chair Ferguson Monday and Chair Ferguson Tuesday.

#Privacy
#Competition
#AdministrativeLaw
#FederalAgencies
#HumphreysExecutor

(left quote is from omny.fm/shows/odd-lo..., right is from www.ftc.gov/news-events/...)
Quote from Ferguson: I think some benefits in certain circumstances to having multi member agencies with people from both parties. I mean, look, if you have an agency that is exceeding the law, abusing the companies that are purports to regulate, it's helpful for markets, for courts, for litigants, for government transparency to have people in the other party pointing this out and saying it in dissents. Like you know, I wrote four hundred plus pages of descents during my time as a Minority commissioner. I think that that adds value. Quote from Ferguson:President Donald J. Trump is the head of the executive branch and is vested with all of the executive power in our government. I have no doubts about his constitutional authority to remove Commissioners, which is necessary to ensure democratic accountability for our government. The Federal Trade Commission will continue its tireless work to protect consumers, lower prices, and police anticompetitive behavior. I wish Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya well, and I thank them for their service.
March 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
nullset.bsky.social
If we ever get drinks, remind me to tell you about the many-years-ridiculousness of #Verizon trying and failing to understand Null as my last name. Here's a screenshot from an order I placed today, with VZ still not recognizing Null, but using "undefined" instead.

#Null #NullLife
Bill to: Eric "undefined"
November 27, 2024 at 4:30 PM
nullset.bsky.social
cool pattern, the first thing my brain thought of, for some reason, was a drum machine.
a drum machine with 4x4 drum pads and other various buttons and switches.
November 20, 2024 at 12:24 PM
nullset.bsky.social
for ease
APRA text: application of other federal privacy requirements
November 14, 2024 at 7:34 PM
nullset.bsky.social
Why yes, that’s what a protest is for, idiot.
“The protest, what it really affects is the everyday users, most of whom aren't involved in this or the changes that spurred this," Huffman said.”
June 16, 2023 at 12:09 PM