My new article, "Redistricting Without Tradeoffs," is now live on @columlrev.bsky.social. www.columbialawreview.org/content/redi... The piece argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, tradeoffs in redistricting are generally weak to nonexistent. We can usually have our cake and eat it too.

REDISTRICTING WITHOUT TRADEOFFS - Columbia Law Review

Introduction The law of redistricting is based on the potential for tradeoffs among line-drawing criteria. Better performance along one dimension—compactness, partisan fairness, minority representatio...

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Works mentioned in danielsolove.substack.com/p/privacy-ai... include ones by @aliciasn.bsky.social @thomaskadri.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social @paulschwartz.bsky.social @evanselinger.bsky.social @chinmayisharma.bsky.social @iajunwa.bsky.social @carissaveliz.bsky.social

It is an honor to have not one, not two, but three world class essays responding to Brokering Safety. Go check out @evanselinger.bsky.social & @hartzog.bsky.social, @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, and @ignaciocofone.bsky.social’s essays for @califlrev.bsky.social!

Data brokers pose grave threats to Americans' privacy and our national security. But the US govt continues to bankroll the industry: it's one its major patrons! It's past time to close the checkbook. Congress must prohibit govt agencies from paying brokers billions to buy Americans’ sensitive info.

Congress Must Close Data Broker Loophole by Prohibiting Government Purchases of Americans' Sensitive Data

A two-pager compiled by the Brennan Center illustrating why Congress must close the data broker loophole by prohibiting government purchases of Americans' sensitive data.

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dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data

It's an illustration of how the global surveillance ‌economy is shaping the battlefield.

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Volume 114.2 of the California Law Review is live! Thank you to our editors and authors for their hard work. Read it at californialawreview.org/print

Delete Act passes in CT ! www.courant.com/2026/05/05/c...

CT consumer privacy bill gets final passage. It regulates brokers who sell data

S.B. 4 explicitly outlines regulations for data brokers, defined in the bill as a “business that sells or licenses brokered personal data to another person.”

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Stories like this are citations in the growing evidence base that the United States is building an authoritarian panopticon from the top down and the bottom up. Local police departments hiring firms like Peregrine amd promising only to use it for major crimes, trafficking....

Sarasota sheriff taps state immigration funds for artificial intelligence policing tech

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is expanding its surveillance capabilities, tapping a state fund to purchase a software platform that offers AI-powered data analysis with the stroke of a key. Pro...

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This is a great convo w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about how DHS’s vendor-mediated surveillance infrastructure threatens civil liberties and democratic accountability. Check out her insightful paper with @samadler.bsky.social for more, incl. how states can counter harms: ssrn.com/abstract=634...

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 3mo ago

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about her forthcoming law review article, “Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries," which discusses the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement. youtu.be/WSM943XOcZ8

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about her forthcoming law review article, “Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries," which discusses the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement. youtu.be/WSM943XOcZ8

Delighted that @bcgeu.bsky.social cited to my and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social’s forthcoming article, Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries, in their shareholder proposal demanding Thomson Reuters investigate their DHS & ICE contracts! You can find the article here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New in the 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 from Chinmayi Sharma, Sam Adler & me: 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 explores privacy law’s complicity in how data brokers exacerbate abuse & harassment. Such a pleasure working with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social, @samadler.bsky.social & the terrific team at @califlrev.bsky.social!

It was a pleasure to discuss Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries w/ @justinhendrix.bsky.social. If you want to keep abreast with these issues, make sure to follow @sambiddle.bsky.social, @josephcox.bsky.social, @jmbooyah.bsky.social, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social & @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns $12M ICE AI Surveillance Contract "ICE’s so-called Project SAFE HAVEN is a danger to everyone." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl #ICE #surveillance www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...

S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

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“Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries” is forthcoming in the BYU Law Review! @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and I describe how the rise of a vendor-mediated enforcement apparatus disrupts immigration federalism and circumvents democratic accountability. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So excited to see my article with Brenda Dvoskin — “Safe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism” — published this week in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New from me today - DHS hack shows funding for AI surveillance including automated surveillance in airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions

Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities

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When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

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Congress should ensure that the Pentagon explains not just how it uses AI but also how much it’s spending on the technology, as well as known risks and failures of the systems it acquires. bit.ly/40rNSg4

The Military’s Use of AI, Explained

The risks to soldiers and civilians are mounting as the Pentagon races to adopt the latest commercial advances in artificial intelligence.

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As @amostoh.bsky.social and I explain in our new report, the military has been ramping up its adoption of AI, while oversight and safeguards have failed to keep up. But the Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic has brought a grave threat into focus: using AI to pry into Americans’ private lives 🧵 1/

The Business of Military AI

The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could jeopar...

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Excellent & empathetic reporting by @iododds.bsky.social in @the-independent.com about data brokers & interpersonal abuse, with smart quotes from @samadler.bsky.social & mentions of our forthcoming @califlrev.bsky.social article w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Inside the dangerous and shady business of data brokers

Even if you don't know data brokers, they almost certainly know you. With no nationwide U.S. privacy laws, experts warn there are often minimal safeguards against motivated people exploiting them for ...

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My new piece with @sonjawest.bsky.social is live in the Journal of Tort Law! Our original 50-state survey of 466 deepfake laws reveals a complex landscape in which lawmakers are experimenting with novel criminal, civil & administrative tools to address deepfakes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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👀 And don't miss the closing line of their announcement: "If you would like to bring your memory details over from a different AI tool or export your memory from Claude for backup or migration, you can follow these instructions." (link goes to: support.anthropic.com/en/articles/... )

The Verge@theverge.com · 11mo ago

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats

Excited to share a draft of my Note—AI Procurement as Regulatory Reconnaissance—forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. Inspired by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, I contend that federal procurement offers a compelling information-forcing tool to inform AI regulation. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thrilled to share that Unbundling AI Openness, my article with @alanrozenshtein.com and Parth Nobel is forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review! It introduces a framework of "differential openness" to correct the oversimplification of AI as either "open vs. closed." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If the future of AI is personal, it should also be portable. Important piece from @mchrisriley.com for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Chris Riley offers a set of principles for personal AI data transfers, and proposes that technologists begin to immediately develop AI data transfer tools, starting with a concrete and yet valuable data model: generative AI conversation histories.

NEW: DOGE affiliate Chris Sweet has developed an AI tool that is being used to rapidly slash government regulations, according to details of a meeting reviewed by @wired.com. Scoop by me: www.wired.com/story/sweetr...

A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation

Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.

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I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT. In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.

'This Was Trauma by Simulation': ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints

Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.

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