Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain Twitter profile

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

8 years

Or as some would call it, "taxes."

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Jonathan Zittrain

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3 years

Some extraordinary quotes in this piece. It’s hard not to conclude from it that many Republican officials believe that only Republicans can be trusted to administer elections, and only Republicans can legitimately win them. (Any Rs who do certify a D victory are also purged.)

Reid J. Epstein

@reidepstein

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In Arkansas, the GOP legislature enacting laws giving a GOP-controlled state board power to “institute corrective action” and “take over and conduct elections” in counties. One of the law's authors believes Trump won the election.

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A year ago today it was clear what was happening, and it remains clear now.

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It’s worth dwelling on this for a moment. Texas legislators want to make it illegal for citizens to voluntarily travel together without registering with the government — if and only if the aim of their travel is to lawfully cast a ballot.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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This is a real letter from state senator Chris Kapenga, a die-hard Trump supporter, after Trump accused him of covering up election fraud. (!) He calls out Trump’s lies … amidst Pravda-era praise. Stockholm Syndrome could be renamed for a town in Wisconsin’s 33rd district.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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The President ends his thread about a foiled plot to abduct the Michigan governor by repeating the would-be kidnappers’ demands.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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“Keyword warrants” demand that a search engine turn over a list of identifiers for every Internet user who performed a particular search within a time window.

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.

www.cnet.com

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Jonathan Zittrain

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"TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps." Paging @FTC h/t @macargnelutti

Felix Krause

@KrauseFx

2 years

🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser 👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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This really drives home @AdamSerwer ’s observation that “fraud” can encompass the idea that one’s opponents are illegitimate participants in politics and governing, even if they’re fellow Americans.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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The House Judiciary Committee is where articles of impeachment are drawn up. If that very committee majority is asking the VP to invoke the 25th Amendment, why wouldn't it proceed to impeachment?

David Cicilline

@davidcicilline

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NEW: I am sending a letter with @RepTedLieu and our colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee, calling on Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office after today’s events.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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With the help of the ace @nytimes digital team, we compiled a list of ~2.2 million externally-facing hyperlinks that had been used in articles since its launch in 1996. The goal was to discern how many of them had fallen victim to linkrot or content drift.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Timnit Gebru’s work on AI bias is necessary and pathbreaking. The prospect that she’d simply be instructed by her employer to withdraw her academic work-in-progress — with no discussion — implicates all the church/state issues of corporations hosting academic research units.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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4 years

This from @crampell is a jaw-dropping revelation of the blandest of evil, sneaky rules. An embarrassment to and mockery of equal justice under law, and our country. If you’re ok with this, try to be honest about why.

Paul Waldman

@paulwaldman1

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I've said for a long time: Republicans decry bureaucracy, then weaponize it against vulnerable people. But the Trump admin has taken it to a truly horrific level. Read @crampell on the Kafkaesque techniques they're using against immigrants:

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Threatening to shut down the military over Internet intermediary defamation immunity was not on my otherwise-expansive Presidential tweet bingo card.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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2 years

I've read this proposed law in Oklahoma twice. Any parent can unreviewably demand a book be removed from a public school library. Any official not complying is to be fired and the district to pay the complaining parent at least $10K/day the book stays. ...

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Writing in 2010, @jonathanchait observed the same phenomenon: Any D electoral wins are seen as uniquely illegitimate; any subsequent D policy as unacceptable without R support, which is naturally not forthcoming.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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The person on the left, Chris @CISAKrebs , may be removed from his job at any moment by the person on the right, the President, because Chris has done his job and upheld his oath of office so consummately well. Another dark moment for our country and its citizens if it happens.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” -Field Marshal Óscar R. Benavides, former president of Peru. h/t @chrislhayes

Adam Serwer 🍝

@AdamSerwer

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Trump believes in due process, but only for himself and people he likes.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Here’s how the purged Republican official described his removal by fellow Rs and the pressures he’d been under: “blinded by power and partisanship … to disregard the oath of office.”

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If reporters covered assassinations the way they're talking about current events: “Some in the campaign have floated plans to physically attack the winning candidate. However, experts believe this approach has little chance of success.”

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Jonathan Zittrain

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The new R laws and the quick flexing of them described in @reidepstein ’s article are the structural counterpart to individual actions, such as purging the Republican who cast a legally-mandated, ministerial vote to certify Michigan’s electoral votes.

Republican Party moves to replace GOP board member who voted to certify Michigan election

Van Langevelde's rejection of false claims of voter fraud allowed the election to be certified, awarding Michigan's 16 electoral votes to Joe Biden.

www.freep.com

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Jonathan Zittrain

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All US case law — 360 years’ worth — now available to the world for free!

lil (library innovation lab)

@HarvardLIL

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Come help us build stuff like the Caselaw Access Project

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Jonathan Zittrain

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For the first time in history, you can do ngrams across all American (and Colonial!) case law -- pick a word or phrase and see how often it's been used in the law over time, including comparisons across different states. All thanks to scanning 44 million pages of 44,000 volumes.

Caselaw Access Project

@caselawaccess

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Today we’re excited to share Historical Trends, a new way to explore 360 years of U.S. case law made available by the Caselaw Access Project at @Harvard_Law 📈 @harvardlil @hlslib @HarvardLibrary @zittrain

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Jonathan Zittrain

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@BradfordPearson @lauraolin You’ve likely seen this, but for me it holds up even on a repeat read:

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@sarahjeong From a friend who’s an ace researcher.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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The routinization of hacking and releasing private citizens' email is deeply corrosive to a free society.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Similarly, for a fair investigation of Democratic President Clinton, a Republican special counsel investigated. Robert Fiske was praised by Rs until he cleared Clinton. Republican Ken Starr replaced him and impeached.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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"Nothing more captures the man than holding a Christian bible in the air as a sort of dominance talisman after driving priests out of a church where they were tending to the needs of peaceful protesters."

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

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Farce, Tragedy and Photo Op via @TPM

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Failing to deal with this company’s behavior when it started is the biggest public policy failure in the digital space in a generation. Reining it in is that much tougher now that it’s well-funded and so frequently used by government clients. @drewharwell

Facial recognition firm Clearview AI tells investors it’s seeking massive expansion beyond law...

The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it’s on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure “almost everyone in the world will be...

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Jonathan Zittrain

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For an investigation of Republican President Trump after his FBI Director (R) was summarily fired, his own Attorney General (R) recused, leaving the deputy (R) to appoint a special counsel (also R) for a fair investigation. Bob Mueller was praised until he failed to clear Trump.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Too often the headlines about a court decision are misleading — what appears outrageous turns out be to unremarkable once you get full context from the court’s opinion. Not here. Opinion linked below. This is a total failure of the system in plain sight, a court crushing a life.

josie duffy rice

@jduffyrice

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a man in mississippi was in jail for a misdemeanor. he asked an officer if he could charge his phone, which was apparently never taken from him. he was then charged with having a phone in jail and was sentenced to TWELVE YEARS IN PRISON.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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“Facebook is proud of our relationship with this PR firm, which did nothing wrong, so we’re firing them.”

CNN Business

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Facebook fires PR firm that was digging up dirt on competitors

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Jonathan Zittrain

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The employee portal accepted a username/password of admin/admin, which in turn gave access to other employees' passwords. 👀

briankrebs

@briankrebs

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Exclusive: Sloppy security forces Equifax to disable employee portal for managing credit disputes in Argentina

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Good morning.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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This is … not how principles are supposed to work.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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These two press releases, the second saying that the first is a lie, are both current on the Department of Justice’s official web site. h/t @marty_lederman

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Jonathan Zittrain

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This from @SangerNYT nails the story, including both the historical context and the current stakes around this betrayal of a Constitutional oath -- and the American people.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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@artcrimeprof "Mr. Zittrain says 'yes' ... Can someone think of a shorter and possibly more accurate answer than 'yes'?"

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Jonathan Zittrain

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@restoreorderusa @AlecMacGillis I guess it’s fitting that the eye-opening statistics here are sourced to a news article that in turn cites to a non-peer-reviewed op-ed that in turn cites to … nothing, with no methodology for how these numbers are arrived at. Truly no real basis (so far) to believe them.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Isn't ... isn't the Iraq War the Republican Party's Iraq War?

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Jonathan Zittrain

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What happens when AI gives us seemingly correct answers that we wouldn't have thought of ourselves, without any theory to explain them? These answers are a form of "intellectual debt" that we figure we'll repay -- and too often we never get around to it.

The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking

Overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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If reporters covered assassinations the way they're talking about current events: “Some in the campaign have floated plans to physically attack the winning candidate. Could it work? Criminal law experts are highly skeptical.”

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Jonathan Zittrain

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A fog-clearing post by @normative on @just_security on the President's tweets that Trump Tower's phones were tapped:

Tapping Trump?

Once again, Donald Trump has kicked off a media firestorm with a series of early-morning Tweets, this time leveling the serious accusation that “President Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower”...

www.justsecurity.org

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Jonathan Zittrain

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More from @reidepstein ’s coverage.

Wisconsin G.O.P. Wrestles With Just How Much to Indulge Trump (Published 2021)

The former president set off infighting among state Republicans by saying they were not working hard enough to challenge the 2020 results, accusing them of covering up “election corruption.”

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Researchers have objected that using bots to scrape information in bulk from, say, Facebook could be deemed a felony. If there were ever a case to make, though, this is it: a company snatching 3 billion photos to build a service to identify any stranger.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Just as there was/is an unconstrained scramble for PPE, there is no national strategy for the allocation of scarce testing — much less a national strategy to produce more. Even though this is a completely basic thing any citizen should expect the federal government to do.

Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA

@KrutikaKuppalli

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There is also a shortage of reagents needed to run #COVID19 tests so some labs are working on manufacturing their own. I don’t have words to express how unbelievable it is that 7 months into this pandemic we are still dealing with this nonsense. Why not invoke full power of DPA?

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Jonathan Zittrain

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It's like having a family member in surgery.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Astounding to see that Facebook basically locked its keys in the car.

Mike Doughney

@MikeDoughney

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@kevincollier Accidental suicide - killing off its own network with a faulty routing update, to the point admins can't put everything back the way it was. They may well be down for a good long while. First two comments have been deleted

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Hard to say what’s more worrisome for the preservation of humanity’s knowledge today: the fact that online sources disappear without warning, or that they can be changed without anyone noticing?

The Internet Is Rotting

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Extraordinary: A number of Microsoft Exchange servers were compromised with no easy way to alert their owners. The DOJ, with a court’s license, used the same vulnerability to undo the hack, and now is trying to get the word out.

Justice Department announces court-authorized effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange...

Authorities have executed a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers in the United States

www.justice.gov

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The irony if he ends up on Tik Tok.

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Don’t overlook the dozens of extreme Trump Administration “midnight rules” being rushed through right now that could be promptly reversed with simple majorities under the CRA if Ds win tonight. Some examples below, compiled by @propublica .

Sean T at RCP

@SeanTrende

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That's not nothing! But the really big structural changes are unlikely to come about unless Manchin decides to turn around and nuke the filibuster.

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Justin Wolfers

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Wow. They really did publish a cubic fit with deaths heading to zero. Notice the visual trick here of trying overlaying outdated forecasts next to that cubic fit, which is the only way of making it look sane.

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Much of the stuff in this thread is not hyperbolized. Funny how quickly we get used to invasive activities, and move past corporate scandal.

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Here are the sorts of books to be removed. A parent believing a book to fit these broad categories need only make a request, and there's no discretion to weigh or review the request. So not only are the categories truly unduly broad; they impose no practical limit at all.

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It’s like shooting the moon in Hearts. A company’s ongoing security practices so awful, the breach so large and the sensitivity of the material so personal, that the journalists alerted to it realize it’s irresponsible to name and shame.

This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can't Even Tell You About It

A consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data, including intimate pictures and private call recordings, for all to see on a server freely accessible over the internet....

www.vice.com

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Jonathan Zittrain

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Thinking about today's capricious and hasty #twitterlayoffs and the amount of extraordinary talent affected. @bkcharvard builds online in the public interest, and we're starting new projects – drop us a line and we'll be in touch: rebootingsocialmedia @cyber .harvard.edu

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This @newsbeagle and @meharris piece describes a retinal implant used by hundreds of people to gain sight -- one that has been declared by its vendor to be obsolete, leaving customers -- patients -- with no recourse against hardware or software bugs or issues. h/t @Williamjmarks5

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Which brings us back to the study we did with the help of the @nytimes digital team. Of the ~2.2 million URLs, we found that: 25% of deep links to specific content were completely rotted. It got worse over time: 6% of links from 2018 had rotted 43% from '08 72% from '98

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The word “betrayal” should be in quotes below. The Attorney General could not betray the President by telling the truth, because the AG owed the President no “loyalty” to lie, or even keep silent, about this stuff. The AG owed the country the truth.

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@froomkin @thegarance Steve Bannon appears to have taken the place of the CIA director, . h/t @jacklgoldsmith

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The judge should be given an opportunity to revisit her answer, having had a chance to reflect.

Stuart Stevens

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Why isn’t it disqualifying for a judge to refuse to commit to support of a peaceful transfer of power as specified by the Constitution? How is this remotely conservative!

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I know all the prudential reasons why a second impeachment by the House is a bad idea. I realize that it's likely just a question of a nation collectively holding its breath until Jan 20th. But if this isn't the Constitution's high crime and misdemeanors in progress, nothing is.

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It’s profoundly regrettable that always-on mics are becoming so ubiquitous, without any updated framework for how they’ll be used for law enforcement or national security surveillance.

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No one knows how these cicadas can keep track of the 17 years they stay dormant. Even more amazing is that they know exactly where the Massachusetts border is.

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@adamdavidson Curious how much of what you’re finding aligns with this

The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal

In 1979, McDonald's introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception. Ask any

www.patheos.com

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Looking forward to a spring course with @Joi Ito of the MIT @medialab on the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Syllabus here:

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Years ago Dan Geer warned of the dangers of software monocultures. Facebook is not only an app so central that people call it a platform — but it’s also a de facto basis for identity across the Web and Internet. Users put more eggs in its basket than appears. Dan was right.

WIRED

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Facebook's data breach just got substantially worse than initially reported. In a follow up call this afternoon, the platform revealed that if your account was impacted, a hacker could have accessed any account you log into using Facebook

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Here’s the full letter. , archived at

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Archduke GameStop

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Your periodic reminder that photos you post publicly on Facebook and Instagram are grabbed by a company to power a comprehensive facial recognition database, and Facebook hasn't done anything meaningful to stop it.

Perspective | A start-up is using photos to ID you. Big tech can stop it from happening again.

If the platforms don't take the vulnerabilities exposed by this scandal seriously, the next civil liberties disaster could be worse.

www.washingtonpost.com

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It's been twenty years and there are still no clear boundaries on behavior like this. No one charged with looking out for users' interests save public interest-minded folks to discover some of what even mainstream apps are doing. (TikTok has over a billion monthly active users!)

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@normative @davidfrum Absolutely. In some instances perhaps pseudonymity rather than anonymity can help. Name not revealed, but guarded path back to author.

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Here, a range of tributes exploring some of Justice Ginsburg’s extraordinary career and life, from a 2013 celebration at Harvard Law School.

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No big deal, just ~USD$600 million stolen this morning in a hack of a decentralized finance network. Below is a plea to return it. Because blockchains are blockchains, everyone can "see" the ill-gotten gains sitting in the hackers' wallets.

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Allow anyone to write and share an algorithm to produce custom feeds. No reason for FB to be both the data store and the sole aggregator.

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I'm delivering the Tanner Lectures on Human Values @ClareHall_Cam @Cambridge_Uni in January 2020 about the strangeness by which technology empowers humanity at the same time it so rightly feels like we're losing control ... and what to do about it.

Clare Hall Tanner Lecture 2020 delivered by Professor Jonathan Zittrain

The 2020 Clare Hall Tanner Lecture will be delivered by Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard University, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School...

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Near-daily privacy panics are often overwrought or based on incomplete stories. Not this one. A feedback loop of thoughtless, pervasive, and leaky parent-child surveillance irresistibly transforms love and concern into a helicopter parenting nightmare.

As summer camps turn on facial recognition, parents demand: More smiles, please

Debate may be raging about government uses of facial-recognition technology, but the technology already is an accepted part of Americans’ everyday lives. Now hundreds of summer camps across the...

www.washingtonpost.com

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@pronounced_ing @thegarance Maybe she didn't actually read the list?!

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Today marks the 25th anniversary of John Perry Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," a ringing, lyrical call for the freedom of mind online. It has resonance today, even as its polemic smoothed over real and still-growing problems.

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Neat question. If the blue check itself is Twitter speaking -- representing that someone is verified -- then 230's immunities around being not responsible for someone *else's* speech could be irrelevant, even though it's that someone's speech beneath the badge that causes harm.

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I don’t know any plausible legal basis by which a federal official can “revoke” consent to publish a public speech made in an official capacity. And since there’s no copyright in U.S. gov’t works, consent isn’t even required to begin with.

Mnuchin Blocks U.C.L.A. From Releasing Video of Students Heckling Him (Published 2018)

The Treasury secretary was hissed at and cursed at during a lecture and discussion on the campus, and his shielding of the video has drawn more attention to the series of tense exchanges.

www.nytimes.com

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Tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Uber should publicly articulate how they will respond to subpoenas for user data as private lawsuits begin under the new Texas law. A link to a great roundup by @issielapowsky below.

Mary is overrated.

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"I could see it being abused by anti-abortion groups who could potentially use the discovery process in a civil lawsuit to demand sensitive information about people and organizations providing reproductive justice services and information." - @evan_greer

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What should we call the opposite of phishing?

Tim Cameron

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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work. I didn't have much identifying info in there so a good Samaritan got in touch with my via my... bank account 🤯 4x transfers of £0.01 each with a reference up to 18 chars

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Today, a crisp one-sentence open letter warning about existential AI threat: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” I did not sign the letter.

Dan Hendrycks

@DanHendrycks

1 year

We just put out a statement: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” Signatories include Hinton, Bengio, Altman, Hassabis, Song, etc. 🧵 (1/6)

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

4 years

My questions on keyword warrants and their counterparts

A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Suppose a laptop were found at the apartment of one of the perpetrators of last year’s Paris attacks. It’s searched by the authorities pursuant to a warrant, and they...

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

3 years

Former AG Barr and Sen. McConnell spoke with @jonkarl to confirm they knew and know there was no material election fraud in 2020. While their account is surely self-serving, it still shows them putting party above country, violating their oaths. And not helpful to the GOP anyway.

Rick Klein

@rickklein

3 years

“We need the president in Georgia,” McConnell told Barr, “and so we cannot be frontally attacking him right now. But you’re in a better position to inject some reality into this situation. You are really the only one who can do it.” Via ⁦ @jonkarl ⁩

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

4 years

All of this was presaged by the move to App Store models just over ten years ago. Before, the way PCs were architected no one could tell Bill Gates to kill a Windows app.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

5 years

People predict they (and others) wouldn’t unlock and hand over their phones if asked to in the course of an experiment. Then 100 out of 103 people do exactly that. Standardized frameworks of consent and choice are too often fig leafs for use — and sometimes abuse — of power.

Orin Kerr

@OrinKerr

5 years

Very glad to see this must-read article published: "The Voluntariness of Voluntary Consent: Consent Searches and the Psychology of Compliance," in the @YaleLJournal , by @rosesomm and @profbohns . Totally fascinating.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

5 years

This is the sort of thing that creeps people out — but/and if the industry keeps doing it people will get used to it. The enduring effect of an Internet of Things is to turn products (TVs) into services (TV watches *you*!).

Scott Manley

@DJSnM

5 years

CTO Of Vizio confirms that Data collection in Smart TV's is now offsetting the cost of the hardware to the point that a non-Smart TV would have a higher price tag. Just like android phones, user data is used to reduce costs and stay competitive.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

7 years

Microtargeted ads on all platforms - from payday loans to political propaganda - ought to be made available for everyone to search and see.

Natasha Bertrand

@NatashaBertrand

7 years

FB now says it will testify on Nov 1 but won't release ads to the public, despite Warner's calls for them to do so

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

3 years

So, how to solve this? The @internetarchive and @brewster_kahle have done extraordinary -- unparalleled, really -- work to preserve and make available links over the course of decades. . There can also be more tailored newsroom-specific solutions.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

3 years

The public and private failures to confront the scraping of 10 billion photos of people, with tags -- to facilitate instant facial recognition of anyone for the rest of their lives -- will rank as one of the biggest unforced and irreversible losses of privacy in thirty years.

Will Knight

@willknight

3 years

My latest story: The man behind ClearviewAI, a controversial face recognition tool that lets police find people online, says he's developing new AI features to make it more powerful. Some say it could also make it even more problematic.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

3 years

A grimly droll - and vital - warning from @zeynep about the seemingly farcical coup attempt-in-progress by the President, explaining why dwelling on “actually, it’s technically not a coup” misses the point.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

4 years

What’s most amazing is that typical legal textbooks comprise mostly public domain material. That’s the highest price I’ve seen yet. We are working to fix this: . Cc @HarvardLIL

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@lindsmarierosen

4 years

Love when professors update their textbook during the fall 2019 semester and the students in spring 2020 have to pay double the price for the updates

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

6 years

In law we’re making open-source casebooks in the face of $250+ texts. Made easier because American judicial opinions — 90% of a typical book — are public domain.

Steven M. Bellovin

@SteveBellovin

6 years

I decided not to use a textbook for my class next term--the best choice I found (~$110) was too expensive to justify.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

3 years

A study I co-authored with @KendraSerra and @lessig (w/more thanks below to the many who helped!) in 2014 found that 50% of the links embedded in Supreme Court opinions since 1791 (well, 1996) no longer worked. 75% of the links in the Harvard Law Review no longer worked.

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Jonathan Zittrain

@zittrain

7 years

Milestone met! @hlslib and @ravellaw just scanned the final volume among 334 years of American law -- 38.6 million pages from 39,796 books.

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