Amanda Levendowski Tepski
@tepski.tech
teaching the next generation of tech justice lawyers @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
research + art @ tepski.tech
research + art @ tepski.tech
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Another criminal case involving AI-morphed CSAM (also deepfake nudes of many adult women), culminating in a guilty plea: www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/t...
Topeka Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Artificial Intelligence Related Child Exploitation Offenses
A Kansas man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for five counts of transportation of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Another criminal case involving AI-morphed CSAM (also deepfake nudes of many adult women), culminating in a guilty plea: www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/t...
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Interested in #TechPolicy #internships? Join us at @cdt.org next summer! Several options: Legal, research, comms, etc.
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Current Openingsfind yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? Are you yearning to put your expertise to work on internet neutrality legislation? If so, you might be a great f...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Interested in #TechPolicy #internships? Join us at @cdt.org next summer! Several options: Legal, research, comms, etc.
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I feel very lucky to have experienced a bunch of art over the past week that gave me an immense sense of hope.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I feel very lucky to have experienced a bunch of art over the past week that gave me an immense sense of hope.
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Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
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“Every participant who was detained by authorities & had biometrics enabled, said they were violently forced to unlock their phone. […]”
The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.
The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.
"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot
The Body as a Password: The Cost of Face ID
Convenience is costing people their freedom. Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities, writes Afsaneh Rigot.
the-decenter.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“Every participant who was detained by authorities & had biometrics enabled, said they were violently forced to unlock their phone. […]”
The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.
The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.
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Day two of #MozFest starts with the Mozilla Foundation's Bourree Lam interviewing the Onion's @bencollins.bsky.social. He brags that the Onion is now the 11th biggest print paper in the U.S. "Our goal next year is to beat the Washington Post... and they're making it pretty easy." [Audience LOLs.]
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Day two of #MozFest starts with the Mozilla Foundation's Bourree Lam interviewing the Onion's @bencollins.bsky.social. He brags that the Onion is now the 11th biggest print paper in the U.S. "Our goal next year is to beat the Washington Post... and they're making it pretty easy." [Audience LOLs.]
So excited to be speaking at #MozFest about feminist cyberlaw futures! We’ll be reacting and redacting (!) our way to unlearning cyberlaw narratives. Download our redaction tool here: tepski.tech/feminist!
FEMINIST — Tepski x Tech
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November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
So excited to be speaking at #MozFest about feminist cyberlaw futures! We’ll be reacting and redacting (!) our way to unlearning cyberlaw narratives. Download our redaction tool here: tepski.tech/feminist!
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#MozFest folks! I'll be on the Main Stage at 4 PM today, in conversation with @signal.org's Udbhav Tiwari and @mozilla.org's Lauren Hendry Parsons talking about Unlearning Privacy.
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
#MozFest folks! I'll be on the Main Stage at 4 PM today, in conversation with @signal.org's Udbhav Tiwari and @mozilla.org's Lauren Hendry Parsons talking about Unlearning Privacy.
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More hope scrolling today. … I’m launching a new tech center at @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social ! So many new opportunities for students and faculty, including fellowships, endowed lectures, paper awards, policymaking advising. Grateful to our dean, Austen Parrish, and the affiliated faculty!
UC Irvine School of Law launched the new Center for Technology & Justice, a collaborative research-based institute directed by Prof. @ariezra.bsky.social studying how technology can change law and society and how law and society can change technology.
news.law.uci.edu/2025/11/05/u...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
More hope scrolling today. … I’m launching a new tech center at @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social ! So many new opportunities for students and faculty, including fellowships, endowed lectures, paper awards, policymaking advising. Grateful to our dean, Austen Parrish, and the affiliated faculty!
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Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
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Excited to share that my Article, Digitial Servitude, is hot off the presses @BCLawReview! The Article examines how technology facilitates forced labor in the US by analyzing federal criminal and civil pleadings. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10.... 1/x
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Excited to share that my Article, Digitial Servitude, is hot off the presses @BCLawReview! The Article examines how technology facilitates forced labor in the US by analyzing federal criminal and civil pleadings. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10.... 1/x
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Summer legal internships at @knightcolumbia.org. Send us the best people! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Summer legal internships at @knightcolumbia.org. Send us the best people! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...
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When tech is built for disabled people but not with them, it often misses the mark. In a new CDT guest post, Achi Mishra explores how to avoid technoableism—the idea that disability is a problem to be “solved” with technology.
So You Want to Design Assistive Tech: Avoiding Technoableism
This blog was authored by Achi Mishra, Extern for CDT’s Disability Rights in Technology Policy project. If you’re reading this article, you probably have some interest in designing assistive technologies and designing them well. You’re interested in tech-for-good applications, and may have been inspired to take this path because of a family member or friend with […]
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October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
When tech is built for disabled people but not with them, it often misses the mark. In a new CDT guest post, Achi Mishra explores how to avoid technoableism—the idea that disability is a problem to be “solved” with technology.
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🎃 On Halloween eve, lend an ear to a mischievous little ode to the Jack-o’-Lantern: who lives to grin & give a fright (all in good fun).
💀 Find more vintage frights & fall delights in this #SpookySeason collection ⤵️
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#Halloween
💀 Find more vintage frights & fall delights in this #SpookySeason collection ⤵️
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#Halloween
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
🎃 On Halloween eve, lend an ear to a mischievous little ode to the Jack-o’-Lantern: who lives to grin & give a fright (all in good fun).
💀 Find more vintage frights & fall delights in this #SpookySeason collection ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ste...
#Halloween
💀 Find more vintage frights & fall delights in this #SpookySeason collection ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ste...
#Halloween
I feel very lucky to know that AI can’t do what I do in the classroom, which is to inspire students to dress up as me for Halloween.
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I feel very lucky to know that AI can’t do what I do in the classroom, which is to inspire students to dress up as me for Halloween.
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Thank you @prmalone.bsky.social, Nina Srejovic & fantastic @law.stanford.edu Juelsgaard Clinic students Jina Zhou and Yiran (Isabella) Yang for filing this amicus brief on Jonathan Masur's & my behalf, explaining why a private third-party sale isn't prior art against an unrelated inventor:
#25 in Cellulose Material Solutions, LLC v. SC Marketing Group, Inc. (Fed. Cir., 25-2000) – CourtListener.com
MODIFIED ENTRY: AMICUS BRIEF FILED by Jonathan Masur and Lisa L. Ouellette, Esq.. Service: 10/28/2025 by email. [1124194]--[Edited 10/29/2025 by GWK - Reason: compliance review complete] [Phillip Malo...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Thank you @prmalone.bsky.social, Nina Srejovic & fantastic @law.stanford.edu Juelsgaard Clinic students Jina Zhou and Yiran (Isabella) Yang for filing this amicus brief on Jonathan Masur's & my behalf, explaining why a private third-party sale isn't prior art against an unrelated inventor: