Albert Fox Cahn🦊 (@[email protected])
@FoxCahn
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@STOPSpyingNY founder; @CarrCenter @yaleisp, @ashoka, & @TEDTalks fellow; 100+ bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, Wired, etc. Was @WeilGotshal & @Harvard_Law. He/him
NYC & [email protected]
Joined August 2008
OMG, my TED Talk just came out!!!! I can't believe this is actually live!
ted.com
Mass surveillance is worse than you think, but the solutions are simpler than you realize, says lawyer, technologist and TED Fellow Albert Fox Cahn. Breaking down the crude tactics law enforcement...
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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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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.
theatlantic.com
Surveillance won’t make the internet safer.
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It's a beautiful day to NOT rank Andrew Cuomo
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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
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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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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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.🙃🤯
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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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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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.
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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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.
pretalx.com
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Mozilla Festival
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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.
stopspying.org
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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.
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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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
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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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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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. 😢
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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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
snopes.com
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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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My promise to New Yorkers: you will never see a billionaire who contributed 1 million to Trump's inauguration on my donor list.
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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So excited for my #SXSW premiere tomorrow (3/13)!!!
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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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
theguardian.com
Westchester county has laws limiting cooperation, but Ice has accessed trove of data that holds license plate readers
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