The Death of Privacy: A Collection of Undying Eulogies danielsolove.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Death of Privacy: A Collection of Undying Eulogies

“Privacy is dead!” I’ve heard this proclamation countless times.

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Hey #ica26, I recently wrote a little something that I believe might be interesting to many. Over years I tried to find a way to properly keep up to date with new journal publications across those journals that are most important to me... (1/n)

If you have conducted a replication that has been part of a large-scale project, you can submit it to @r2journal.bsky.social.

Replication Research (R2)@r2journal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

<< New publication >> From Replication Rates to Replication Evidence: A Guest Editorial by Felix Holzmeister, Colin Camerer, @floriancova.bsky.social, Anna Dreber, and Magnus Johannesson. Openly accessible at doi.org/10.17879/rep....

Israel's Supreme Court just issued a landmark ruling on AI in government: "the AI hallucinated" is not a valid defense for a public authority: csrcl.huji.ac.il/blog/when-ai...

Good comparative #privacy survey research needs good validated instruments. @masurphil.bsky.social , @kelly-quinn.bsky.social and I validated shorter versions of the Online Privacy Literacy Scale (#OPLIS) for EN & DE. It's now out as a preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Kelly Quinn@kelly-quinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share a new preprint, authored with @masurphil.bsky.social and @thinkmacro.bsky.social We validate the Online #Privacy Literacy Scale (OPLIS) for a US context and offer reliable and valid short forms of the scale for both the US and Germany. You can read it here! osf.io/preprints/so...

This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”

AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science

Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration

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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

"AI" is bad UX

teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...

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Tom Hollenstein@tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers. Here's what happened: scientiapsychiatrica.com/index.php/Sc...

Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time? Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend. Program platgov.net/assets/site/... Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I wrote an updated guide on which AIs to use right now, & some tips on how to use them (and how to avoid falling into some common traps) A lot has changed since I last wrote a guide like this in the spring, and AI has gotten much more useful as a result. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

What AI to use in late 2025

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A median of 72% of adults across 25 nations say the spread of false information online is a major threat to their country. Concern about this issue is widespread in both high- and middle-income countries, and it has remained relatively stable over time.

🌐 Want to understand how countries are prioritizing key issues ahead of WSIS+20? GNI and @gpdigital.bsky.social have published a new summary infographic offering a quick visual guide to where countries stand on key WSIS+20 issues. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-and-gpd-...

GNI and GPD Launch New Summary Infographic on WSIS+20 Country Positions - Global Network Initiative

Understand country approaches to internet governance and stakeholder engagement at a glance.

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These 2 stellar pieces from @techpolicypress.bsky.social are essential for educators thinking through the profoundly new internet our students are experiencing. techpolicy.press/how-ai-drive...

How AI-Driven Search May Reshape Democracy, Economics, and Human Agency | TechPolicy.Press

Cameron Pattison, Vance Ricks, and John P. Wihbey see differences in kind, as well as in degree, from the pre-generative model-based online search environment.

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Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · last yr.

“Perhaps the hardest thing to change now will be breaking the instinct to ‘Google it,’” writes Dia Kayyali, in response to the degradation of the online information landscape. “We need to start asking where we can turn for communication that’s mediated as little as possible by technology.”

July roundup on tech policy litigation from Tech Justice Law Project’s Melodi Dinçer! This month covers key legal discussions in generative AI and “digital replicas,” section 230 protections, privacy law enforcement, demise of FTC’s click to cancel, and a resolution in Cambridge Analytica.

July 2025 Tech Litigation Roundup | TechPolicy.Press

Melodi Dinçer, Policy Counsel for the Tech Justice Law Project, highlights key developments in tech litigation.

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🚨 New publication! 🚨 Do people really trust the government? It depends on how you ask. Happy to share that our paper on why Question Form Matters with KatharinaPfaff (@stawi-univie.bsky.social‬) is now out in @jssam.bsky.social 📊🇦🇹 🔗 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

Question Form Matters: Examining Trust in Government through Open and Closed Survey Items

Abstract. How we ask questions in surveys significantly impacts the answers. While previous research has examined differences between open-ended and closed

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New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

Judgitbu the abstract, this seems like an interesting read..

Cornell Tech@cornelltech.bsky.social · last yr.

@davidthewid.bsky.social, postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech, released a new report on how “Big Cloud” companies — Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — are quietly reshaping the tech ecosystem through strategic investments. Read the full report here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On politics and policy preferences of tech workers: In a preprint of a study lead by Gilad Be'ery and co-authored with @raanan-sk.bsky.social we show that, despite some similarities, techies do not have a universal policy agenda; developers are particularly distinct. osf.io/preprints/os...

The immense political influence possessed by the tech elite perfectly demonstrates how free and fair elections may coexist with and even foster a political system that privileges the policy preferences of a select few, writes Surya Gowda.

What Makes A Democracy A Democracy? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech elites' political clout shows how free elections can still favor the policy preferences of a powerful few, writes Surya Gowda.

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Grok’s “sudden ideological reorientation” underscores that the “anodyne political character” of other chatbots is also a construction, @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. It's a reminder that all chatbots are the product of "people deciding what they should and shouldn’t say.” nymag.com/intelligence...

How Grok Learned to Be a Nazi

The chatbot’s sudden turn to antisemitism and Hitler fandom came from the data — and, maybe, from the top.

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If the power grid around St. Petersburg and Moscow went down for a while, we imagine many "Western" social media accounts would suddenly go quiet, too.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last yr.

Dozens of anonymous X accounts advocating Scottish independence abruptly went silent after a major Israeli airstrike campaign against Iranian military and cyber infrastructure on June 12. #ForeignInfluenceOperation ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pr...

Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab

Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...

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Working on platform governance? Join for PlatGovNet 2025 Free online conference Dec 1-2 Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2 Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area. Glad to be part of organizing it Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆 📚 Best Book The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵

The Illiberal Public Sphere

This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.

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This is no longer a contest over AI models alone, but over standards, adoption, and the architecture of global digital ecosystems. buff.ly/WrOKnN9

Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training

Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training | TechCrunch

President Donald Trump has fired Shira Perlmutter, who leads the U.S. Copyright Office. The firing was reported by CBS News and Politico, and seemingly

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#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: Building Bridges in Privacy Research: Comparative Perspectives and Collaborative Insights - 14-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Mineral G (Regency 3).

Canadians are split on GenAI’s net societal impact (39% positive, 34% negative, 27% neutral), but unite around key concerns—security and privacy (72%), reliability of information (68%), job displacement (68%), and effects on higher education (68%). socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...

[New Report] The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends - Social Media Lab

TORONTO — April 2025 — A majority of Canadians (66%) have experimented with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools less than three years after ChatGPT’s public debut, according to a new repo...

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