The movie Obsession could've also been called Limerence, I suppose. (You should watch Obsession though.) www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

How social media is fueling an intense form of romantic obsession

The digital world is primed to fuel episodes of profound infatuation known as limerence.

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NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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wow I REALLY want to fly on that Nintento JetBlue plane

Seth Miller@wandrme.paxex.aero · 5d ago

Spotted the JetBlue Mario special livery and Southwest's 250. #avgeek

There's bills to protect kids from #AI/#ChatBots. There's bills to protect aging adults from AI/chatbots. Can we just pass general protections from AI/chatbots and avoid introducing #privacy-invasive #AgeVerification then????

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What does footy have to do with content moderation? A lot. Between AI-generated Kimmel rants, racist speech targeting French players, and VARgentina conspiracies, T&S teams have their hands full ahead of the World Cup semi finals beginning today: cdt.org/insights/its...

It’s Game Time for Content Moderation

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if they record anything at all (and perhaps they shouldn't), they should definitely have lots of signs of active recording, including sirens and lights that look like THIS, not like a single tiny white dot no one will ever see

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · last mo.

The Meta smart glasses should have an alarm sound blaring every time they go into record mode

If your website has a dark pattern where you can click "accept all cookies" and "more options," you suck. Even more so, once in "more options," if you let people unclick a bunch of options and then STILL have the brightly colored "accept all cookies," screw you. Lookin at you, kick.com.

NEW: buried within the trove of hacked documents from Madison Square Garden, the folks @404media.co found the company was keeping files on activists that criticized their use of facial recognition. Including me. Here's @fightforthefuture.org's statement: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...

I don’t know if SCOTUS will release Trump v. Slaughter today, but if it does and Roberts writes, prepare for the most selective, bad-faith, outcome-driven “history” to appear in a Supreme Court opinion since Heller. Actual legal historians are going to lose their minds.

Last week, I was on a fun podcast, the Data Diva, to discuss lots of #privacy related issues, including #SECUREDataAct, #competition, and #AgeVerification!

Eric Null@nullset.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I was recently on the Data Diva podcast, discussing lots of #privacy topics including the SECURE Data Act, which is up for a hearing in House Energy & Commerce this morning. Spoiler alert: I don't like it. www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast/e291...

One of the best weekends of the year -- #WarpedTour. See you there, DC! #ItWasNeverAPhase

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

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New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...

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Last week, I was on a fun podcast, the Data Diva, to discuss lots of #privacy related issues, including #SECUREDataAct, #competition, and #AgeVerification!

Eric Null@nullset.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I was recently on the Data Diva podcast, discussing lots of #privacy topics including the SECURE Data Act, which is up for a hearing in House Energy & Commerce this morning. Spoiler alert: I don't like it. www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast/e291...

🚨 🚨 🚨 THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE IS VOTING ON DATA PRIVACY TODAY!!! Call your Reps and tell them to support the ACLU-backed amendments that make H. 4746 stronger, and OPPOSE amendment 18 that makes it weaker. Reskeet to get this in front of as many massholes as possible!!! FFTF.link/madataprivacy

Amanda Cerny's Shout Out to Mass-Holes

Alt: Amanda Cerny's Shout Out to Mass-Holes

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If industry is tripping over themselves to compliment your #privacy bill, you can be pretty sure it’s an industry burden reduction bill, not a consumer protection bill. #SecureDataAct

I was recently on the Data Diva podcast, discussing lots of #privacy topics including the SECURE Data Act, which is up for a hearing in House Energy & Commerce this morning. Spoiler alert: I don't like it. www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast/e291...

E291 - Eric Null, Director, Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology — Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC

Eric Null, Director, Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology In this episode of The Data Diva Talks Privacy , Debbie Reynolds, "The Data Diva" speaks with Eric Null, Direc...

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🚨Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m., EPIC Deputy Director and Policy Director @caitrionafitz.bsky.social will testify before a subcommittee of House Energy and Commerce about the recently introduced SECURE Data Act, which EPIC strenuously opposes.

New podcast alert -- today, I joined the Data Diva podcast to discuss lots of #privacy issues, including legislation, age verification, competition, and a bit on my own origin story. Link below! www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast/e291...

E291 - Eric Null, Director, Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology — Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC

Eric Null, Director, Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology In this episode of The Data Diva Talks Privacy , Debbie Reynolds, "The Data Diva" speaks with Eric Null, Direc...

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I have SO much anecdotal evidence to back Jake as well

useful to revisit this CDT blog post from August -- #ArtificialIntelligence companies are taking on more risk and disclosing less info, to the detriment of people and society. Voluintary frameworks like NIST AI RMF don't do what we want them to. #AI

What Are They Willing to Risk? Why AI Companies Need to Make Their Risk Appetites More Legible to the Public

Conclusionpetites-and-tolerances">Toward more legible risk appetites and tolerancesrisk-appetites-and-tolerancesnbsp" href="#the-issue-opaque-and-unchecked-risk-appetites-and-tolerancesnbsp" class="to...

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Many interesting tidbits here, but this quote re ease of de-anonymization using #AI: “I wanted to show that it is feasible to use the current, off-the-shelf AI chatbots to conduct ... [a] reidentification attack,” Dr Tianshi Li, of Northeastern University, said. www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

AI chatbots know more about you than you realise

From a few basic questions, an AI chatbot can learn more about you than those who have known you for years. The privacy implications are profound.

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Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

An inspired choice. Rohit is brilliant and relentless. Corporate predators beware.

Newsom appoints former CFPB head to lead California consumer agency

Rohit Chopra was ousted as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the Trump administration last year.

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The SECURE Act is not a serious piece of privacy legislation. To take one example, this is not real data minimization: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

<3 a vermonter who sings about vermont!

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 3mo ago

Presenting Rolling Stone's June 2026 cover star: Noah Kahan. ⭐ He made his name writing beautifully open songs about everything from his home state to his mental health. Now he has millions of fans, and he's still processing it all. Story/Photos: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Powerful statement from @accessnow.org in response to the #RightsCon cancelation. I'm very proud of them for speaking truth to power. www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme... @rightscon.org

A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

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they're only going to get worse with ... chatbots, that can create backronyms until the end of time.

Riana@riana.bsky.social · 3mo ago

backronyms have gone too far