Zak Rogoff
@zakkai.bsky.social
Friendly #HumanRights+internet worrier, AI and privacy researcher. Ranking Digital Rights, ex @AccessNow.org. He/him.
This is just the first step. Next is probably chatbots directly trying to get you to buy things. I predicted the development of chatbots/ads manipulation in this article.
www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...
www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...
October 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is just the first step. Next is probably chatbots directly trying to get you to buy things. I predicted the development of chatbots/ads manipulation in this article.
www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...
www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...
Reposted by Zak Rogoff
La reinterpretación artesanal de un protocolo de Internet para brindar alternativas de acceso en contextos de bloqueos: WebTunnel de la red Tor @torproject.org Artículo en la #Revista404 del Centro de Cultura Digital, con ilustración de @kalogatias.bsky.social centroculturadigital.mx/revista/la-r...
La reinterpretación artesanal de un protocolo de Internet: WebTunnel
WebTunnel nos recuerda que intervenir la arquitectura de red posibilita el diseño de otros mundos en los que se reconozca que la mar, la tierra y los arrecifes pueden guiar otras práctic...
centroculturadigital.mx
September 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
La reinterpretación artesanal de un protocolo de Internet para brindar alternativas de acceso en contextos de bloqueos: WebTunnel de la red Tor @torproject.org Artículo en la #Revista404 del Centro de Cultura Digital, con ilustración de @kalogatias.bsky.social centroculturadigital.mx/revista/la-r...
Reposted by Zak Rogoff
This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
September 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
I just submitted some session proposals to @rightscon.org . I thought this was a fun title:
Thinking about thinking about thinking machines: diverse methodologies for research on AI and human rights.
Thinking about thinking about thinking machines: diverse methodologies for research on AI and human rights.
September 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I just submitted some session proposals to @rightscon.org . I thought this was a fun title:
Thinking about thinking about thinking machines: diverse methodologies for research on AI and human rights.
Thinking about thinking about thinking machines: diverse methodologies for research on AI and human rights.
September 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This Jimmy Kimmel things seems to have activated some of my friends who seemed politically apathetic before or thought "both parties are the same."
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This Jimmy Kimmel things seems to have activated some of my friends who seemed politically apathetic before or thought "both parties are the same."
Happening in the USA now too!
We have often made no bones about our admiration for the progressiveness of Hammersmith and Fulham Council but we are totally opposed to this
Live Facial Recognition is unfair and targets certain communities over others
H&F need to stop this proposal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Live Facial Recognition is unfair and targets certain communities over others
H&F need to stop this proposal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hammersmith and Fulham to introduce AI in its CCTV cameras
The cabinet paper also recommended drones be introduced as an enforcement aids, subject to approval.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Happening in the USA now too!
Reposted by Zak Rogoff
We have often made no bones about our admiration for the progressiveness of Hammersmith and Fulham Council but we are totally opposed to this
Live Facial Recognition is unfair and targets certain communities over others
H&F need to stop this proposal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Live Facial Recognition is unfair and targets certain communities over others
H&F need to stop this proposal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hammersmith and Fulham to introduce AI in its CCTV cameras
The cabinet paper also recommended drones be introduced as an enforcement aids, subject to approval.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We have often made no bones about our admiration for the progressiveness of Hammersmith and Fulham Council but we are totally opposed to this
Live Facial Recognition is unfair and targets certain communities over others
H&F need to stop this proposal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Live Facial Recognition is unfair and targets certain communities over others
H&F need to stop this proposal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Loving this Brendan Carr tweet from 2020 right now
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Loving this Brendan Carr tweet from 2020 right now
And way more people in other countries.
If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050, according to new research. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
September 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
And way more people in other countries.
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Democracy depends on a fearless and free press.
Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media.
They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.
Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media.
They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.
September 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Democracy depends on a fearless and free press.
Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media.
They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.
Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media.
They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.
People with disabilities deserve privacy at least as much as the rest of us.
Assistive tech can empower—but only if it protects users' privacy. When design overlooks sensitive health or disability data, disabled users pay the price. CDT’s @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social & intern Achi Mishra outline how to center privacy in inclusive innovation: cdt.org/insights/inc...
September 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
People with disabilities deserve privacy at least as much as the rest of us.
The core insight never gets old: technology neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it. But it's not neutral either because sometimes it incentivizes more good or more bad. open.spotify.com/episode/2jik...
New Insights on Tech and the Crisis of Democracy
open.spotify.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The core insight never gets old: technology neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it. But it's not neutral either because sometimes it incentivizes more good or more bad. open.spotify.com/episode/2jik...
Looking for tech policy and digital rights account recommendations to follow. Finally getting started with Blue Sky!
September 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Looking for tech policy and digital rights account recommendations to follow. Finally getting started with Blue Sky!