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Woodrow Hartzog

@hartzog.bsky.social
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Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h
See it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /s
bloomberg.com
Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10h
A rebuilt and re-empowered IRS can go a long way to reining in many of the oligarchs' offenses.
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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 15h
AI out here having a normal one again.
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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the way.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
probably fine that all these new ai agent rollouts are so cutesy and childish. probably a sign of innocuous, normal shit
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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*the growing number of incidents here AI agents do what they were built to do.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile, Cambridge Analytica's former website is now an AI slop/plagiarism farm futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Someone Has Brought Cambridge Analytica Back as a Zombie Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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Antifa Chief Product Officer @evilal.com · 29/09/2026
Have you seen this? appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ireland's DPC says AI firms unlikely to be permitted train data on private messages, because it would breach GDPR Likely a blow to WhatsApp, which launched Muse AI within WhatsApp in the US DPC says it also killed or delayed 9 AI services pre-launch www.independent.ie/business/blo...
independent.ie
Blow to WhatsApp as Ireland's DPC says tech giants can’t use private messages to train AI
The data watchdog also says it delayed or killed nine AI launches in Europe in recent years after the services failed to meet privacy standards
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
“Alongside valid privacy concerns, there is a persistent inequity in how facial recognition is deployed: it’s disproportionately used to manage vulnerable populations like migrants and refugees.”
macleans.ca
Facial Recognition Technology Is Scarier Than You Think - Macleans.ca
It now functions as a gatekeeper to housing, employment and education
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like verdict in the second Meta trial in New Mexico came in on Friday, and Meta got walloped again—the jury found that Meta had committed more than 43 million acts of unfair or deceptive conduct in its statements about its own operations www.reuters.com/business/met...
reuters.com
Meta misled users about Facebook data practices, New Mexico jury finds
A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Meta ​Platforms misled the state's residents in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 pr...
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