Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted
and unleash chaos Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership Media Matters for America : After the Brown University shooting, right-med...
A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional
Cell towers record the location of phones near them about every seven seconds. When police request a tower dump, they ask a telecom for the numbers & personal information of every phone connected dur...
AI tech like ChatGPT can be used by bad actors to lobby within democracies at incredible speed and scope, costing far less than troll farms like Russia's IRA
New York Times : Tweets: @intuitmachine , @willwilkinson , @pstasiatech , @nytopinion , @orinkerr , @arfung , and @geoffmanne Tweets: Carlos E. Perez / @intuitmachine : Is the side-effect of ChatGPT ...
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”
do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/... Bari Weiss / @bar...
EU law inhibiting the monitoring of email, messaging, and other services that takes effect Dec. 20 would also restrict scanning for child sexual abuse imagery
Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights. Tweets: @gabrieldance , @alexstamos , @missingkids , @...
As US courts continue using proprietary 3rd-party recidivism algorithms to contribute to decisions of sentencing, bail, and guilt, justices ponder consequences
Adam Liptak / New York Times : Tweets: @mims , @aheineike , @davidmanheim , @orinkerr , and @nytimes Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : This is an extraordinarily bad idea and should be illegal: Sent...
How the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 broadens the powers of network operators to conduct surveillance for the government
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