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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 19/09/2026

His IG avi is him with Putin … cmon

Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 24/01/2026

TikTok's new ToS and PP update shared with users via pop-up that only accepts (no, I am not on TT, this was raised to me by my begrudgingly privacy-aware SO). Brazen disregard, crazy anti-consumerism. Best of luck with your ad network.

TikTok Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy dark pattern

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 18/12/2025

FWIW I don’t think this accounts for variable speed (at 2x this is 58k of real-time listening)

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 03/10/2025

Great year for pictures of big fires from our house

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 07/06/2025

Google AI Overviews is great for Legal Research 👍

Google AI Overviews tries to solve Colorado regulations

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 08/05/2025

Left is the Chernobyl miner

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 28/03/2025

I personally would have selected different sources for recommending health information to my users. blog.google/technology/h...

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 17/03/2025

Ferguson: "I don't want to go after censorship. The government is not supposed to go after censorship qua censorship, because we're not the speech police." Also Ferguson:

Request for Public Comment Regarding Technology Platform Censorship

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 08/03/2025

Finally made it to Ballmer's Intuit Dome. Absolute spectacle & one of the cooler stadiums I've been BUT ... it's a perfect privacy law exam fact pattern. GameFace ID (face match for tix, payments), Identity Pass (Apple Wallet, Bluetooth for payments). Not to mention a Kafkaesque opt out process!

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 13/02/2025

ADCREEP: THE CASE AGAINST MODERN MARKETING, Mark Bartholomew Nothing new under the sun.

Excerpt from Mark Bartholomew’s ADCREEP, in which he describes resistance to prefilm advertisements

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 04/02/2025

What is the rationale behind making operating an aircraft exempt from CA AB 2013 (Generative artificial intelligence: training data transparency.)?

(2) A generative artificial intelligence system or service whose sole purpose is the operation of aircraft in the national airspace.

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 20/01/2025

Removing specific locations from your database just got a bit more difficult with the DOJ’s final rule under EO 14117, which now includes 700+ locations:

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 12/12/2024

The CPPA upped the data broker registration fee to $6,600 beginning Jan 1. Staff suggested they may decrease the cost in future years as the registry grows, but I anticipate this number catching some smaller businesses when they go to register next month.

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Andrew Folks @andrewfolks.com · 11/12/2024

Proposed CFPB data broker rules consider 3 approaches to de-identified info. If it adopts #3, it may adopt FTC's three-prong test seen in state privacy law (reasonable measures, publicly commit not to re-ID, contractual prohibition on re-ID). This... feels like a no brainer? Am I missing something?