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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I truly can’t believe I paid for this service. Ground News sucks, actually.

Screenshot of the service Ground News, showing the “bias breakdown” of the coverage of the US attack on Venezuela with insipid analysis like “this stark diversion — from a legal analysis to a military announcement — reveals profound ideological splits on US foreign intervention and executive power.”

Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We began with the pretty simple assumption: that a broker that has registered with one state *would probably face the same registration requirements in the others* and found *hundreds* of brokers that fit that mold for every registry.

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

You can also use our database here to drill down into the 11 data brokers that are (or rather have admitted to) selling reproductive healthcare data.. That we even know these 11 brokers are is thanks entirely to the California Delete Act. privacyrights.org/data-brokers

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Don’t listen to Joy Division in the park at night or you’ll get eaten by werewolves and or skin walkers (Dylan Dog / Oldboy, “Skinwalker”) #comics #it-comics

Two page spread from the latest Dylan Dog Oldboy issue, “Skinwalker”. A man walks in a park at night listening to Joy Division’s “Shadowplay”, and is attacked by a wolf man creature.

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Why is this interesting? Well, all sorts of reasons, mostly to do with the fact that these are guys you've almost certainly never heard of and they almost definitely have your data. But, hey, here's 94 data brokers that sell kids' data, that are (probably, in minecraft, etc) not registered in CA

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

More on this soon, but I did a thing with some cool people: public.tableau.com/views/Regist... Check out our updated consolidated database of #databroker registries -- scraped, cleaned and normalized from the registries in #California (incl. both the AG and #CPPA), #Vermont, #Texas and #Oregon

880 identified data brokers across the 5 state registries. This screenshot shows a table with a search panel at the top, a bar graph showing the distribution of registries across the 5 states, a table view allowing the sorting and filtering of all of the data brokers.

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Batman, Ice man, sure — but my favorite, first-come-to-mind role of the great Val Kilmer has to be Nick Rivers in Top Secret.

As the Elvis-stand in, teen-heart-throb Nick Rivers, Val Kilmer performs a song and dance number to a room of shocked Germans in the 1984 comedy Top Secret

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Woo! First official monthly update for the new @privacyrights.bsky.social Data Breach Chronology has been pushed! Now with... * 192 new breach notifications since #DataPrivacyDay * 2025-01-28, including 152 new breach events and another * 1.9M impacted records.. databreachchronology.org

Graphic showing:
72,553 Data Breach Notifications Tracked, 8.16 Billion individuals impacted, 25,850 Breach Notification Letters Reviewed and
Over One Million affected by a single breach . . . only 11 days ago
Last breach reported: February 6, 2025
Database updated on: February 9, 2025

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I am *pretty sure* that breaches are, over all, increasing over time. Isolate just the HIPAA breaches, or just California or Maine or one of the states with a long track record of notification requirements and that number is absolutely going up each year.

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

So excited to share our database update louder and through the official channels on #DataPrivacyDay next week. How does an up-to-the week, centralized, normalized repository of #databreach notifications sound -- all sourced from official gov records, w/ PDFs OCR'd and analyzed, going back 20 years?

Summary graphic showing highlights from our data breach database:
* Today: 72,360 Data Breach Notifications Tracked
* 8.16 Billion individuals affected
*25,725 Breach Notification Letters reviewed

And the byline "It has been 8 days since a breach reported impacting 1M Americans"
Last breach reported: January 16, 2026, Database Updated on: January 23, 2025

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Buona Befana! I hope the Christmas witch fills your stockings with treats! 🇮🇹

A photo of a La Befana doll. The doll depicts a witch, exactly like the Halloween variety but in rich reds and silver, kinder makeup and a jovial laugh

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy public domain day to all that celebrate!

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Can someone explain to me what mad science or arcane maths the bluesky notification system follows? This can’t just be me, right?

Screen shot of bluesky on mobile showing three notifications

Screenshot of bluesky notifications page which shows one new notification which indicates both “+11” .. something, and “[username redacted] and 15 others followed you”

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Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Art is magic and amazing but I especially love “Fuck the past, fuck the future, I <3 Sharp Cheddar right now”

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