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March 2025

Unleashed and Unlawful: How DOGE Violates the Privacy Act
FAFO doesn't work in the US Government, and yet nobody bothered to let Elon or the Administration know.
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Privacy As Resistance: Things are Changing
This blog will be undergoing a few changes—given the state of the world, everything sacred feels like it’s under threat. Constantly. And I need to do…
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Dispatches on Privacy from SXSW: Jazz Improv Edition
I relate my speaker style to jazz improv, and share some thoughts on other SXSW sessions I attended.
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Dispatches on Privacy from SXSW
I'm at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week, and, well it's a spectacle.
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Can the Privacy Act Put a Muzzle on DOGE? (Part II)
Part II of a three-part analysis of the DOGE debacle and how a little-known privacy law might contain this rabid beast.
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Can the Privacy Act Put a Muzzle on DOGE? (Part I)
Part I of a three-part analysis of the DOGE debacle and how a little-known privacy law might contain this rabid beast.
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February 2025

Wanna Meet Up? (SXSW, Venice Privacy Symposium & Barcelona Meetup)
Are you a reader? Would you like to meet up? Here's where I'll be!
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Breach or Blessing? Lessons from a Suppression List Slip-Up
A cautionary tale about a client who accidentally sent an 'oops' email, and what data protection lessons we can all learn from it.
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Should We Be Able to Read ChatGPT's Mind?
Where I explain why knowing everything AI knows about you might drive you crazy.
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We Need Our Claws Out to Protect our Privacy and Fundamental Rights
I share some of my favorite organizations, tech & laws for maintaining purr-sistent resistance against fascists, big tech, and the broligarchy. Also a…
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Diving Deeper into DeepSeek
You're in for a treat -- A guest post by Pete (aka Crapotkin), who has been doing a deep seek when it comes to the company's ToS & API terms.
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