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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])

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@STOPSpyingNY founder; @CarrCenter @yaleisp, @ashoka, & @TEDTalks fellow; 100+ bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, Wired, etc. Was @WeilGotshal & @Harvard_Law. He/him

Joined August 2008
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@FoxCahn
Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
1 month
British friends, excited that UK preorders for my 1st book are live! @evanselinger and I explain why the DOGE (move fast & break things) approach is broken and how we can fix huge problems by moving slow and upgrading. You can get 25% off until Friday! https://t.co/P70PSPiP7k
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@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
3 months
New laws that seek to verify a user's age when they attempt to access certain content online—sometimes by uploading their driver's license or a selfie—won't make the internet safer, and may even introduce new problems, @FoxCahn argues.
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theatlantic.com
Surveillance won’t make the internet safer.
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
5 months
It's a beautiful day to NOT rank Andrew Cuomo
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
5 months
When even elected officials can be whisked away by masked agents, none of us can rest comfortably with the state of our democracy. https://t.co/k5AiUSYfnY
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nytimes.com
Mr. Lander, the New York City comptroller and a candidate for mayor, was handcuffed as he tried to steer a man past Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
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@FoxCahn
Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
5 months
Yes, this sort of article is completely frivolous, especially when so much is on fire here and abroad, but I hope it can be a brief respite from the tragedy of the news cycle for those who need one.
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
5 months
I've done some amazing stunts over the years, but this has to be my most ridiculous. I not only spent months forging an Ai WeiWei piece because I thought the gallery selling it was being obnoxious, but i actually got to interview WeiWei about my stunt.🙃🤯
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businessinsider.com
Ai Weiwei made a piece of art out of plastic bricks that cost as much as a house. I replicated it for $250.
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@FoxCahn
Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
5 months
With everything so grim, I’m so excited for a ridiculous, frivolous, and wonderfully irreverent project of mine to come out tomorrow. It may not fix any of the things keeping us all up at night, but it will hopefully be an entertaining distraction from it all. 😁
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@FoxCahn
Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
6 months
We went full black mirror. Tracking anyone, anywhere, at any time using their face is simply incompatible with democracy. Terrified to think how cops will weaponize this against protesters, religious groups, and anyone else law enforcement wants to target.
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washingtonpost.com
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
6 months
Friends, I'm a wrangler for MozFest this year, and I wanted to put in a plug for our call for proposals, which is closing on May 21st at Noon CET / 6 AM ET. It's a very short proposal, and a great venue, so please reach out to me if you have any questions.
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pretalx.com
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Mozilla Festival
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@STOPSpyingNY
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
7 months
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Celebrates NYC Passage Of POST Act Amendments Closing NYPD Surveillance Loopholes The bills force the NYPD to disclose many of its surveillance systems, what data it collects, and who has access.
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stopspying.org
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
7 months
As a Jewish man, a civil rights lawyer, and a privacy expert, I can assure you that this policy as almost 0 to do with actual antisemitism.
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npr.org
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
7 months
Why do people have to be so negative and refer to this as a “trade war”? Can’t we be more positive and think of it as a “loving poverty”? #Tariff
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nytimes.com
The S&P 500 rose 9.5 percent after President Trump announced he would pause his “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days, but economists warned that American importers were not out of danger.
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
8 months
It’s amazing that it took so many so long to realize: #Tariffs = taxes. Raising American tariffs is just another way to raise federal taxes, and we all pay the bill.
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
8 months
As someone who fights surveillance, I wish I could be gleeful about so many intel leaders losing their jobs, but truly the only thing that terrifies me more than our surveillance arsenal in the hands of the NSA is putting it in the hands of Elon Musk. 😢
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washingtonpost.com
Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired Thursday as director of the powerful wiretapping and cyberespionage service, according to U.S. officials.
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@raesdeng
rae
8 months
while deleting your personal data is a measure of protection, in @FoxCahn's words, "the genetic horse is out the barn." unfortunately, the only way you can 100% protect your genetic data is to not share it with companies like 23andme in the first place. https://t.co/5Kem5MjEty
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snopes.com
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
8 months
Finally caved and bought one of the photos from last weekend’s United Half to psych myself up for the Jersey City Marathon in just three weeks 😬
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@ShahanaFromBK
Shahana Hanif
8 months
My promise to New Yorkers: you will never see a billionaire who contributed 1 million to Trump's inauguration on my donor list.
@Annie_McDonough
Annie McDonough
8 months
A new letter from Indivisible Brooklyn takes aim at GOP-aligned donors to Maya Kornberg. Plus, it notes Kornberg's connection to one of those donors is a lot closer than she let on to us back in December. https://t.co/FBmaaaKT2O
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Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
8 months
Had such a blast speaking at #SXSW!
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@FoxCahn
Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
8 months
So excited for my #SXSW premiere tomorrow (3/13)!!!
@STOPSpyingNY
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
8 months
Attend a dynamic panel featuring @FoxCahn on how A.I. and technology will affect the future of relationships, sex, and intimacy through psychological, technical, and legal perspectives. #SXSW #AI More info: https://t.co/X3TtgVcUUE
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@FoxCahn
Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
8 months
Quoted in the Guardian: “Westchester can be a sanctuary county or a surveillance state. It can’t be both.” It’s “painfully ironic that American highways went from the symbol of freedom…of the open road to this metaphor for creeping surveillance.” https://t.co/9C0P7EKIHq #ICE
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theguardian.com
Westchester county has laws limiting cooperation, but Ice has accessed trove of data that holds license plate readers
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