privacy

Did AI Kill Publius? Replicating Kelsey Piper's Anonymity Experiment
Re-identification of a pseudonym isn't new. It's just become frictionless.
 • Carey Lening
Ring and Flock are Trying to Create a Sensorveillance State
Free and subsidized doorbell cameras and facial recognition systems leave everyone less free in the end.
 • Carey Lening
The Ladder to Nowhere, Part 2: OpenAI's Complete Picture of You
OpenAI is building a ladder to comprehensive surveillance. Each rung delivers value—ChatGPT, health tools, wearables, BCIs—while collecting everything…
 • Carey Lening
Arrivederci, Venice, Hola Barcelona!
A few thoughts on this year's Venice Privacy Symposium, and an upcoming speaking gig in Barcelona!
 • Carey Lening
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.
 • Carey Lening
Dispatches on Privacy from SXSW
I'm at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week, and, well it's a spectacle.
 • Carey Lening
Episode 11: Building Bridges: A Conversation with Debbie Reynolds
Find out how rehabbing homes and building bridges are critical to success for Debbie.
 • Carey Lening and Conor Hogan
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Questions You Can't Answer Without Everybody Losing
Or, what privacy, censorship, and beauty ideals have in common with Milgram’s electric shocks.
 • Carey Lening
Quick Thoughts on Some Big Ideas
What I'm reading this week and why it's interesting
 • Carey Lening
LLM Lies About You Are Still Personal Data
What rights should you, or I have to that data? At a minimum, shouldn't we be allowed to access, correct, delete, or object to the use of hallucinated…
 • Carey Lening
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