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Amanda Levendowski Tepski

@tepski.tech

writing a book to help lawyers choose good technologies (coming 2027!) teaching how intellectual property, cyberlaw, professional responsibility + privacy mess w technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social prints, perfumes, + poems @ tepski.tech/art

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 9h ago

Most AI tools require some sort of privacy sacrifice, so understanding the risk is important. ssd.eff.org/module/priv...

Privacy Considerations with AI Tools

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools come in all sorts of flavors. There are notetaking and transcription tools, chatbots, device-wide agentic AI features, grammar and writing tools, translation assistants, AI summaries, and research tools, among others. As a term, “AI” may refer to features in apps, apps themselves, third-party plug-ins, or a...

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Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 12h ago

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

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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Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · yesterday

I wrote a very deep-dive for subscribers about how ad blockers work, and why they're so effective at preventing web tracking, location surveillance, and blocking ads that serve malware. I also offer my favorite ad-blocker suggestions, including browser extensions and network-level ad-blockers.

Why ad blockers are a top security and privacy defense for everyone

Ad blockers can help defend against some of the top hacks, scams, and surveillance today. Here are some of the best ad blockers that you can use.

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Lauren Harper@laurenleharper.bsky.social · 2d ago

Processing DNA for nearly a million people in a year? No problem, ICE says. Attaching a $300 camera to an agent’s vest? Logistical nightmare. That's one of the most remarkable ironies of this great story (based on FOIA requests by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Center on Privacy and Technology).

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW: ICE is collecting unprecedented quantities of DNA from detainees, including children. Those samples sit, indefinitely, in an FBI database built for criminal investigations. "People are very confused about why their DNA is being tested. I do not think they’re being told what the purpose is."

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 4d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 4d ago

VPN providers tend to overpromise on privacy, but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful in select circumstances. Here’s what to look for. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Choosing the VPN That's Right for You

VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP). This masks your IP address, which can be an...

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WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org · 5d ago

On August 1, 2003, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe founded the MySpace social network. MySpace popularity skyrocketed, and by February 2004, the network had acquired one million users. Tom's MySpace profile in 2005

Tom's MySpace profile in 2005
Amanda Levendowski Tepski@tepski.tech · 5d ago

1. 10 credits/semester, both semesters (it’s a clinic with a seminar) 2. Every day but Sunday 3. Any moment I have time 4. Wanting to do anything else 5. Don’t be so precious about writing rituals. After I started writing more on my phone, it transformed what I thought I “needed” to write.

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Academics who write during term (i.e. while teaching): 1. How many classes do you teach per term? 2. How often do you write (e.g. once/wk, when you can, etc.)? 3. When do you write (e.g. weekend, morning, at night, etc.)? 4. What's the biggest barrier(s) to you writing? 5. Do you have any tips?

A scribe in a ruby tunic with a dark purple cloak over top is seated on a wooden chair, and focusing on the task of writing in a manuscript that is resting on a lectern. The scribe appears inside a large, illuminated letter E that is blue. Within the E the background is made up of small dark blue squares with a circle in each square, almost like the wall behind the clerk is a quilt. The background outside the letter E is similar to the background in the letter E, only it is made up of red squares instead of blue ones. Reference: Durham Cathedral Library MS A.II.3 f.279v