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David Choffnes
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Professor in Computer Science at @Northeastern. I work on privacy, IoT, networking, security, and mobile. Avid cyclist and amateur coffee roaster. He/him

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Are airlines moving toward individualized pricing? We have reasons to be skeptical about their responses so far.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institute/insights/tech-brief-airplane-response/
Tech Brief: Airplane Response
www.law.georgetown.edu
August 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Kicking off our workshop on Policy-Relevant Privacy Reseach (PR2), colocated with @PET_Symposium
2025 in DC: https://pr2.technologypolicyworkshop.org

With Athina Markopoulou and Zubair Shafiq
July 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by David Choffnes
I wrote about how the Trumplican court attack on net neutrality is about way more than just "net neutrality"

It's about completely dismantling whatever's left of already feckless U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection
Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection)
The telecom industry (with the help of the recent Trump Supreme Court), has been drooling for months at the prospect that the Trump-stocked courts would soon finally deliver the killing blow to FCC…
www.techdirt.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by David Choffnes
let's play a game

find me an article on today's net neutrality ruling that mentions corruption exists

or that harmful telecom monopolies exist

or that mindlessly taking a hatchet to popular consumer protections isn't populist

or that the telecom lobby spends $320k A DAY lobbying government
net neutrality - Google Search
www.google.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Reposted by David Choffnes
I mean, this is a terrible (if unsurprising) decision, but I'm left wondering how Brendan Carr is going to still try to claim regulatory authority over social media companies...

There is no possible consistency between "ISPs can throttle and block, but edge services cannot..."
Sixth Circuit decision striking down net neutrality doesn’t even remotely pass the sniff test lol www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
January 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Is your phone surreptitiously listening to you? Probably not: it doesn't need to. I discussed this and more with Clare Duffy (CNN) on Terms of Service: https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/9f25f50c-96cf-11ef-aa1b-2f5b86b83293
November 19, 2024 at 7:24 PM
My colleagues and I found a confluence of invasive web tracking and gig worker signups leading to SSN data being sent to Meta and TikTok, from Uber and Lyft driver signup forms. It’s been fixed by the latter two, but the peril of web form tracking remains. More details about this story of four […]
Original post on discuss.systems
discuss.systems
November 15, 2024 at 11:44 PM
The IMC Steering Committee is soliciting site proposals for IMC 2026! Preference is for locations outside of North America, for more details, see this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ly3CJS5qJHdpU5ZwemYrEiXe_PfFUvM3Xpbkj6-q-ww/edit?usp=sharing
November 15, 2024 at 4:32 PM