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The DPC Gives Meta a Green Light to Train on EU User Personal Data Starting Tomorrow
If you're in the EU, this is the last day you've got to opt out of Meta scraping all your posts from Facebook & IG to train its AI
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What Do Cakes and LLMs Have in Common?
I spoke at the recent IAPP Barcelona event and I learned so much about communicating complex ideas and the value of translation, precisely because I…
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Arrivederci, Venice, Hola Barcelona!
A few thoughts on this year's Venice Privacy Symposium, and an upcoming speaking gig in Barcelona!
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Using Microsoft Recall? Welcome to Hell
Microsoft never reads my blog posts, but really they should, because Recall is a Privacy Disaster
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April 2025

The EU Commission Tells Meta No Way to 'Pay or Ok' Under DMA
They also tell Apple to knock it off when it comes to the App Store.
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Catastrophe-Mode, and Maintaining Privacy In Authoritarian Times
Timothy Snyder's book, On Tyranny, offers 20 lessons on how to survive authoritarianism. I share some thoughts on Lesson 14 -- Establish a private life.
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Mad King Trump Wants His Own Palantír
Orange Julius Caesar signed a new Executive Order seeking to centralize US government data. I explain why this is a terrible thing, by way of my…
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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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