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Agreeing with federal caselaw, Virginia Court of Appeals rules that police in Norfolk did not need a warrant to access the Flock ALPR system: This is still public surveillance, not like Carpenter.
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I'm delighted that my article "First Ideas" is now published in the Georgetown Law Journal @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
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Good morning 😃

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Calling all artists! We are seeking designers for limited-edition merch designs to celebrate our anniversary. We will be choosing three artists to create one design each.

Submit your portfolio or work samples for consideration by April 20: forms.gle/Y7uppNBYiiWr...

Any Millennial who survived the AIM era can tell you this.

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study.

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There are workarounds to overreliance on these tools: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2684/

Big opinion out of the Mass. SJC this morning on whether Section 230 bars the AGO's claims of unfair trade practices against Meta for addictive design. "We conclude that it does not." www.mass.gov/doc/commonwe...

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

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In these stunning chromolithographs from 1851, Jean Baptiste Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods: publicdomainreview.org/collection/verany-cephal...

Saving local news means saving our shared memory. When archives disappear, communities lose their history. Learn about the librarians & archivists helping safeguard local history, & the collaboration between @archive.org, @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, & @ire.org that’s providing tools & training ⬇️

The Murder of Sex Workers Is Not True Crime Entertainment Violence against sex workers is rarely taken seriously by the police or media.

Rex Heuermann-Gilgo Beach Killer-is pleading guilty to the murder of 7 women 15 yrs after the 1st body was found. He likely killed more. He was allowed to go on killing bec violence against sex workers is seen as their fault. I wrote abt it in @teenvogue.com in 2023 www.teenvogue.com/story/gilgo-...

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

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Unbalanced Interests

NEW REPORT on the 1201(a)(1) process!

(you may know it as the cell phone/mcflurry jailbreaking process)

Every 3 years almost 100 nonprofits & clinics submit >1000 pages of comments asking for an exemption to a law that is almost never used.

For what?

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The Burden of Proof Must Be Met Every Three Years With New Evidence A text analysis and visualization of nine triennial rulemaking proceedings under DMCA Section 1201 — mapping more than 55,000 pages of petitions and comments filed since 2000.

I created a bombastically detailed visualization of every single comment filed in the eight rounds of these triennial rulemaking proceedings.

Five foot long posters are available for those of you with a love for elaborate governmental ritual.

1201.nyuengelberg.org/burdenofproof/

Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.

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Thinking of y’all both 💜

Biology Professor Discovers New Rodent Species in Peru Dr. Edson Abreu of the Angelo State biology faculty was part of a multinational team of researchers that recently discovered a new species of semi-aquatic...

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Maine Is Close to Passing a Moratorium on New Datacenters The proposed legislation would be the first of its kind passed in the country, but there are similar bills popping up everywhere this year.

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The Future of Football Starts Today Nine years can be a lifetime.

Omg: www.todayintabs.com/p/the-future...

With this addition of U.S. v. Mayoral, the AI-CSAM case tracker I'm maintaining is now up to 25 federal criminal prosecutions, 97 cases total. www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/f...

One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever enjoyed: www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot... ty @jonbois.bsky.social

Careers 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...

We’re hiring! 🚨 Join the Center for Democracy & Technology as a Senior Policy Analyst/Counsel on our Privacy & Data team and help shape policy on AI, privacy, and civil rights. Apply now: cdt.org/careers/#op-...

Schmidt Sciences Research Scholars in AI & the Humanities, 2026-2027 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art | NYFA The Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks eligible candidates for two twelve-month Postdoctoral Research Scholar positions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Humanities. This pilot program aims to adv...

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