The US DOJ names Princeton University professor Jonathan Mayer as its first chief AI officer, as well as chief science and technology adviser, to monitor AI
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Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...
District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana AGs sue Google for allegedly deceiving users to gain access to their location data from at least 2014
it's actually one of several state lawsuits that all contend Google's privacy settings are purposefully confusing, all under different consumer protection laws https://www.theverge.com/... @nytimesbus...
Researchers who built an Apple-like system to identify CSAM in e2e encrypted online services say they abandoned it due to numerous abuse and misuse concerns
Jonathan Mayer is an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University.
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations
whose ads are already public and whose data Facebook stores in a public archive. https://www.protocol.com/... Dell Cameron / @dellcam : NEW: Senate Intel Chair @MarkWarner condemns Facebook's decision...
Chrome team's idea for a new, but still cookie-based, anti-tracking standard is technically disingenuous and aimed at protecting Google's business interests
By Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan. — Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That's the new disingenuous argument from Google …
FCC hires privacy maverick Jonathan Mayer as technical lead for probes into telephone, television, and Internet service providers on consumer protection issues
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FCC hires privacy maverick Jonathan Mayer as technical lead for probes into telephone, television, and Internet service providers on consumer protection issues
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How Verizon partner Turn is using the UIDH injected by Verizon to resurrect deleted cookies
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