Help, there’s a cockroach in my coffee! 16 gross ingredients hidden in your favourite foods From wood pulp in ice-cream to peat in portobellos, science has transformed how we dine. Do you know exactly what’s lurking in the grub we eat?

Apparently, our food is like AI - it's made of all sorts of weird disgusting crap we're not aware of that will sicken or kill us. Bon appetit! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Surveillance by the Big Brother is dangerous and so is surveillance by Big Billionaires. This Wired story is essential reading: www.wired.com/story/madiso...

GOP finalizing draft national privacy law that would preempt states The draft proposal is expected to face opposition from Democrats wanting a higher ceiling for federal data protection.

A hard no on this. Sight unseen, I doubt a federal privacy law by this Congress would be anything other than absolutely terrible. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Becker's MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is a terrific book about the terrifying views of many tech leaders. More details here: amzn.to/4mHOMz9

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

"Google has created a misinformation crisis." The math: roughly 10% error rate + people's "cognitive surrender" to AI + trillions of searches = a big scary mess futurism.com/artificial-i...

How your data is powering Trump’s surveillance state A new book explores just how much we're being monitored—and how to fight back.

@nader.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act For too long, this law has allowed the government to evade privacy protections and spy on Americans. Reform is overdue.

President Trump is urging Congress to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but lawmakers in both parties oppose extending it without reforms. Congress now has a chance to protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW

Interested in becoming a law professor focusing on privacy and AI? Apply as soon as possible to GW Law’s VAP in Privacy & Technology Law. We start reviewing applications soon: www.law.gwu.edu/privacy-and-...

Green Eggs and Ham: How Not to Market and Invade Privacy Dr. Seuss's Book Is a Metaphor for Modern Online Marketing

Green Eggs and Ham: How Not to Market and Invade Privacy open.substack.com/pub/danielso...

Platform Design Blamed for Addiction; Jury Awards Millions YouTube video by Solove on Tech

Short Video on the Social Media Addiction Verdict www.youtube.com/shorts/QtTZg...

How Surveillance Chills Speech YouTube video by Solove on Tech

Short video - How Surveillance Chills Free Speech www.youtube.com/shorts/FS0wH...

Accountability for Technology and AI The Recent Negligent Design Verdict Should Be a Wake-Up Call

Accountability for Tech and AI: The Recent Negligent Design Verdict Should Be a Wake-Up Call substack.com/home/post/p-... #AI

Platform Design Blamed for Addiction; Jury Awards Millions YouTube video by Solove on Tech

On liability for tech platform design - another short excerpt of my conversation with @byjacobward.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/QtTZg...

Social Media's Fortress Finally Crumbles! YouTube video by Solove on Tech

Short video on the social media addiction verdict - excerpt from my longer discussion with @byjacobward.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/I9V7D...

Video: Your Data Will Be Used Against You Your Data Will Be Used Against You Tues, April 28, 2026, at 2:00 PM ET Daniel Solove talks to Andrew Guthrie Ferguson about his book YOUR DATA WILL BE

Your Data Will Be Used Against You – register (free) teachprivacy.com/video-your-d... Andew G. Ferguson and I discuss his new book YOUR DATA WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU: POLICING IN THE AGE OF SELF-SURVEILLANCE, amzn.to/3PLNU0c

AI, Manipulation, and Control YouTube video by Solove on Tech

WATCH NOW - AI, Manipulation, and Control youtu.be/MVUZuxPIYgY I discuss with Jacob Ward his book, THE LOOP, amzn.to/4sSfSph

Against Privacy Essentialism - final published version of my article papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Video: AI, Manipulation, and Control AI, Manipulation, and Control Wed, April 1, 2026, at 2:00 PM ET What are the dangers of AI being used to manipulate and control people? Daniel Solove

TODAY - AI, Manipulation, and Control (Wed, Apr 1 at 2 PM ET) – register (free) teachprivacy.com/video-ai-man... I discuss with @byjacobward.bsky.social his book, THE LOOP: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT CHOICES AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK.

Poll after poll indicates that people strongly want privacy protections from government. DOGE and other things done by the government with personal data in the last year have been the worst privacy offenses by the gov't in history. There must be an enormous reckoning.

"Implications of AI for Privacy Policy" - HIPAA Summit Keynote - next week, I’ll be a keynote at the annual HIPAA Summit. Agenda: hipaasummit.com/wp-content/t... Please register here: hipaasummit.com/registration/ #HIPAA

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to befor...

Fargo Part II (though in a different state) - in theaters now . . . featuring Clearview AI and a horrifying case of mistaken facial recognition www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

🚨 AI companions are on the rise, as well as the tragic stories associated with them.

If you use AI chatbots regularly, watch my 1-hour conversation with Dr. Raffaele Ciriello and Dr. Jessica Szczuka on the data, the risks, and the governance of AI companions.

Link below:

"There are too many cases of spreading disinformation, invading privacy, encouraging malicious gossip and defamation, facilitating suicide and self-harm, sparking violence, affirming delusions, inspiring dangerous behavior, stoking extremism, boosting harassment and threats . . ."

"A different ethos is needed. The current ethos is a Speed Racer approach of win the AI and tech race at all costs."

From my Substack post, Accountability for Tech and AI open.substack.com/pub/danielso...

Accountability for Technology and AI The Recent Negligent Design Verdict Should Be a Wake-Up Call

"Digital technologies can bring about wonderful things, but why do they need to produce so much blood, death, pain, lies, hate, and tears?" From my Substack post, Accountability for Tech and AI open.substack.com/pub/danielso...

Accountability for Technology and AI The Recent Negligent Design Verdict Should Be a Wake-Up Call

Accountability for Tech and AI: The Recent Negligent Design Verdict Should Be a Wake-Up Call open.substack.com/pub/danielso... #privacy #AI

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

"[O]ur biometric data is perhaps the most personal data we have, and allowing police and others to have access to it carries significant costs for our privacy, security, and autonomy." - Andrew Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social has a great piece in Wired, "Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy" adapted from his new book www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Awesome choice @eff.org !

I'm very excited to be speaking with @lorriecranor.bsky.social about our children's books on privacy at the @privsecacademy.bsky.social PS Forum (May 6-8). Mine is THE EYEMONGER, amzn.to/4uEs1ji and Lorrie's is PRIVACY PLEASE! amzn.to/4sd6zQD