Jon Keegan 🇺🇦
@jonkeegan
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Reporter at @sherwood_news. Previously @themarkup, @WSJ. Bluesky: https://t.co/TT5IwZsyO2 Signal: jonkeegan.73
New York, USA
Joined December 2007
Sad to do this, but I am going to be freezing (not locking) this account, and don't plan on posting to it going forward. Please follow me on Threads: or Mastodon: or subscribe to my newsletter: 👋🏻.
beautifulpublicdata.com
A curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies. By @jonkeegan
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Hi @Blkturtle7M I’m a reporter for @sherwood_news and I’d like to speak with you. Can you DM or email me? keegan@sherwoodmedia.com.
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Big “moving van is packed” vibes over here as I go through the house one last time to pick up some clothes hangers, empty Ikea bags and a nail clipper. 🧵
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1.1K Followers • 0 Threads • Tech reporter at Sherwood News. Prev: The Markup, WSJ. Bluesky: @jonkeegan.com Signal: jonkeegan.73 Also: https://beautifulpublicdata.com. See the latest conversations...
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RT @harrylitman: This is a bonafide scandal. On the legal level, it means the Court decided a case that wasn't a real case or controversy….
washingtonpost.com
Colorado artist Lorie Smith said she had received a request to create designs for a same-sex wedding. The man named in the request said he never asked for that.
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RT @jonkeegan: Just going to drop in here regularly and remind you all to get the hell over to Mastodon it’s lovely.
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1.22K Posts, 1.22K Following, 2.23K Followers · Tech reporter at Sherwood News.. Previously: The Markup, WSJ, Tow Center. Aspiring 46'er. https://jonkeegan.com/ My newsletter: https://www.beautiful...
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RT @WolfieChristl: I spent several weeks going through software docs to understand how retailers, restaurants and hotels can utilize digita….
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Excellent research by @v0max (et al) auditing app data collection and CPPA data requests to see what companies were collecting what they said they were.
Just added a new paper to the lab website, which @nsamarin will be presenting at @PET_Symposium in two weeks! 🧵. (Joint work w/ Shayna Kothari, Zaina Siyed, Oscar Bjorkman, Reena Yuan, @primalw, @Noura_7N, @jfischeresq, and @hoofnagle). 1/.
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Excited to share my first contribution to the print edition of MIT @techreview (which you may have seen on my newsletter @BeautPublicData): A look at the forgotten history of highway photologs.
Decades before Google Street View, state government vans were photographing each mile of roadway, capturing a rich visual history of America’s roads and highways.
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RT @JoelEastwood: When an online ad loads, it's holding a lightning-fast auction for advertisers to bid for your attention. With @ghongsdus….
themarkup.org
In mere milliseconds, online advertisers scrutinize your personal data and bid for your eyeballs
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💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻.
We believe that joining our largely unionized peers at other journalism and nonprofit outlets will help us continue to hire, retain and develop staff members long into the future.
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RT @carlquintanilla: We’re in the ‘Kroger-is-now-referencing-A.I.-on-earnings-calls’ part of the cycle. (via Wells) $KR .
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I was on Australia’s ABC @RadioNational Breakfast show this morning talking about our Xandr audience segments story form last week (sorry my audio was a lil blown out 🎤💥).
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RT @WolfieChristl: Follow-up thread with additional details about what the segment file from Xandr/Microsoft (reported here: .
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RT @WolfieChristl: Here's the description of Skydeo's people-who-suffer-from-anxiety segment. The data comes from Epsilon, a data broker ow….
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RT @jason_koebler: NEW: The NHTSA has told car manufacturers to ignore an overwhelmingly popular Massachusetts law that ensures the right t….
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The administration, which has previously championed right to repair, ignores its own experts to side with huge companies and screw over consumers.
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RT @themarkup: If you work for an organization that deals with mental health or other sensitive areas, you shouldn’t wait for watch dogs to….
themarkup.org
It’s time to be proactive about user privacy. Find out if you’re sending too much data to Facebook—or if you need to send data at all
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RT @swodinsky: so many things to love abt this piece, but my personal fave is how it inadvertently discloses the walmart brand's hatred for….
themarkup.org
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences
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Send me your audience segment data!Signal: 646-355-8306.
ID-based third-party segments for ad targeting are problematic, even more if they contain questionable data. You work in adtech and have access to full segment lists from Google, Adobe, TTD, Adform or others?. Use a non-work device & contact @jonkeegan: .
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