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Hilary

@hilaryisonline.bsky.social
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tech policy & democracy. but also, snacks & cats.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The front page of today’s Boston Globe.
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 22/01/2025
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was created specifically to provide oversight over the kinds of government actions where the need for secrecy makes people most vulnerable to abuses of power.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Come be my colleague! This is a really interesting, internationally-focused, remote-friendly, human rights & tech policy role. More info & apply ⬇️
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
a republic, if we can keep it 🤞🇺🇸
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/10/2024
what i look like faving your posts
cat in a witch hat with a wand making a scrunched up face
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
So far, I am heartened by the draft! Right off the bat, it requires a data access portal (that's interoperable with the EC's existing portal) for researchers to apply and the various actors related to review/approval to be in communication. This seems prosaic, but it is crucial. (2/x)
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
EU DSA's Article 40 Delegated Act is out and open for comment for the next 4 weeks! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Today the European Commission proposed how Art.40 of the Digital Services Act (#DSA) could work in practice.In a worldwide first, this article in the DSA mandated very large platforms to grant researchers access to a wide range of previously undisclosed data.Some key points - now also on Bluesky :)👇
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Reupping this for the institutional leaders who need it.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
👋 Join @thegni.bsky.social Annual Learning Forum on Nov. 19th “Global Dynamics in Government Demands of Tech”, covering trends & tactics in gov't demands and mandates of tech and protecting human rights amidst changing contexts. Virtual registration: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-learning...
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GNI Learning Forum 2024: Global Dynamics in Government Demands of Tech - Global Network Initiative
Register for GNI events in Washington D.C. from Nov 19 & 20.
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Mary Beth Hunzaker @mbhunzaker.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Come and join our small but mighty team working towards healthier local digital spaces! (& please share widely with folks who might be interested! 🙏)
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
great piece by @daphnek.bsky.social describing the "compliance-ization" (is that a word? now that's a word!) of platform policy and trust & safety functions. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform
Content moderation is becoming a “compliance function,” with trust and safety operations run like factories and audited like investment banks.
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
The RSC comes out of research that Prof. Katie Searles (Univ of S Carolina) and I have been conducting into the impacts of occupational intimidation (OI) on experts—scientists, journalists, public health and election officials, etc.—focusing in particular on what can be done to mitigate harms. 1/
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
🚨 🚨 if you work in T&S, it turns out you should be paying attention to this UN treaty process! Jason lays out the concerns for a number of communities, including practitioners within companies. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
new piece by my colleague Jason Pielemeier www.justsecurity.org/100333/rethi... “the U.N. Convention Against Cybercrime... would put the privacy, data, and safety of dissidents, journalists, and activists around the world at risk"
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Rethinking the United Nations Cybercrime Treaty
The U.N. Convention Against Cybercrime clearly challenges the democratic vision for a free Internet and puts the United States on the spot.
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Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
What’s needed to make tech transparency meaningful for the Global Majority? Watch & read GNI & @ac-transparency.bsky.social's event summary: @hilaryisonline.bsky.social globalnetworkinitiative.org/event-summar...
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Event Summary: Tech Transparency for the Global Majority - Global Network Initiative
The GNI event featured lightning talks by experts based in India, Brazil, and South Africa.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
📢NEW FROM ME! On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose. lpeproject.org/blog/social-...
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Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is
Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…
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Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
We’re hosting a virtual event with @ac-transparency.bsky.social on April 8, exploring research and practice around what’s needed to create meaningful tech transparency for the Global Majority. More info & register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Meaningful Tech Transparency for the Global Majority. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
What’s needed to make tech transparency meaningful for the Global Majority? What are some of the key obstacles that Global Majority researchers face in accessing data and other key transparency materi...
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The Action Coalition on Meaningful Transparency @ac-transparency.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
The Transparency Initiatives Portal is now live at portal.meaningfultransparency.tech 🌐 It’s a streamlined, user-friendly community resource designed to help you navigate the complex tech transparency ecosystem. See @techpolicypress.bsky.social for more here: www.techpolicy.press/building-com...
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Building Common Infrastructure for Meaningful Tech Transparency | TechPolicy.Press
Tom Barraclough and Jason Pielemeier say tech transparency is an emerging ecosystem that requires long-lasting infrastructure.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/12/2023
New: Rite Aid secretly scanned shoppers with facial recognition for years, leading to false shoplifting accusations, embarrassment and harassment. The chain banned workers from discussing it, and one distraught 11-year-old girl was searched due to a bad match www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Rite Aid used facial recognition on shoppers, fueling harassment, FTC says
In one case, the FTC said, employees called the police on a Black customer after the technology mistook her for the actual target, a White woman with blonde hair.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
after 2018 people kept trying to get comment from me or book me on shows on the subject of "cancel culture" and "cancellation" and now, five years later, when no one* remembers who I am or what I did, I have something to say on the matter www.theverge.com/c/features/2...
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Goodbye to all that harassment
Sarah Jeong reflects on the coordinated right-wing campaign to cancel her.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/12/2023
New: Cops are going into pharmacies and walking out with people's most sensitive health information. No warrant or judge review. Comes at a time when women's health care is being criminalized. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds
Findings of a congressional inquiry raise privacy concerns as some states seek to criminalize abortion.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
www.theguardian.com/society/2023...
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A third of new mothers worldwide ‘have lasting health issues after childbirth’
Problems such as back pain, incontinence and depression cause widespread suffering but are underrecognised, global review finds
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
New: Reuters has taken down its blockbuster investigation into how a hacker-for-hire shop after an Indian court order. No sign the piece was wrong, comes as India faces wave of press freedom issues: www.404media.co/reuters-take... Archive still exists. Read it: web.archive.org/web/20231116...
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Reuters Takes Down Blockbuster Hacker-for-Hire Investigation After Indian Court Order
The investigation gave unprecedented insight into how hacker-for-hire shops operated. Reuters says it stands by the reporting.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
For a long time I’ve been thinking about why we are so terrified a child will regret a gender transition. This essay ended up being not just about gender but about all of our identities, how they shape us and, crucially, how we shape ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/o...
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Opinion | There Is No Way to Live a Life Without Regret
The panic over transgender children is driven by the fear that they’ll regret transitioning. But freedom to make mistakes is core to being human.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/o...
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Opinion | Over 60 Journalists Have Been Killed in the Israel-Gaza War. My Friend Was One.
To live through a nightmare and to witness others living through theirs are two very different things.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
update: ice skating lessons still bringing a lot of joy!!!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28/11/2023
another day, another story showing how data brokers are a massive privacy and national security threat we do nothing about because the entire broken mess is very profitable (and the government likes not having to get a warrant)
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We Spied on Trump’s ‘Southern White House’ From Our Couches
Two authors tracked Trump's visitors, thanks to a data broker that follows the foot traffic of 1.6 billion people across 44 countries.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
ok a state attorney general launching an investigation of an organization for publishing obviously first amendment protected criticism of a billionaire’s business practices at the behest of said billionaire is not like the best place to be in, democracy wise
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
+1 this series is very good
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
a lot of things are bleak, so I’m trying to double down on things that bring joy. today I started ice skating lessons!!! 🥰⛸️ (thanks to @kendraserra.bsky.social)
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Today would be a good day to pass the bipartisan Platform Accountability and Transparency Act www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-r...
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How Bad Is Antisemitism Online? It’s Increasingly Hard to Know.
People who study social media say the conflict between Israel and Hamas has underscored the need for better data transparency from platforms.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
on my reading list — by @anupamchander.bsky.social
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
There are many, many reasons why doing away with anonymous online speech would be dangerous for free expression. One is that it would force people from authoritarian countries to choose between speaking out and protecting their families.
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Nikki Haley Says Anonymous Social Media Posts Are a ‘National Security Threat,’ Demands All User...
Nikki Haley called anonymous social media posts a "national security threat" and proposed that users be made to verify their real identities online.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
for the billionth time, real name policies do not reduce harassment and are bad for both free expression and privacy (1/2) www.mediaite.com/tv/nikki-hal...
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Nikki Haley Says Anonymous Social Media Posts Are a ‘National Security Threat,’ Demands All User...
Nikki Haley called anonymous social media posts a "national security threat" and proposed that users be made to verify their real identities online.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
“dictatorships struck back at activists and journalists who were using the internet to campaign for human rights from afar. authoritarian regimes learned to respond… through spyware & online harassment… surveillance, threats, disruption, kidnapping & violence” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | They opened the door. The dictators were waiting.
Reaching far beyond their borders, dictators are dispatching assassins, kidnappers and investigators to target dissidents, journalists, academics and others.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
milestone: first time back doing yoga, four-ish months post-baby 😌🧘🏽‍♀️
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
at least this routine check-in about whether we still get to have bodily autonomy is accompanied by thrilling graphics and stars that go whoooosh
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Story this morning: Duke researchers were able to buy tens of thousands of US servicemembers' data, often for pennies on the dollar. Data brokers offer choices on active military members' location, credit score, net worth, and family status.
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U.S. service members’ data is easy and cheap to purchase online, study finds
Duke University researchers were able to purchase information about thousands of U.S. military personnel often for as little as 12 cents per person.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
There’s a huge lack of childcare nationally — often waitlists of a YEAR — and it’s only getting worse 🫠😩 “When she asked, back in June, about enrolling her coming baby, she was told the center wouldn’t have another opening until next June at the earliest.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | A child-care center lost its funding. Here’s what happened next.
When one Wisconsin daycare lost its funding, the effects cascaded to a working parent with kids there and to her employer, too.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
apply apply apply!
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Our team analyzed one of the networks in here a few years back. It’s worth noting that every team mentioned in this article that does analysis work to *uncover* these operations is currently under fire, being investigated by Congress and getting sued. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Spy vs. spy: How Israelis tried to stop Russia’s information war in Africa
In the two years since an Israelis company first tried to thwart a Russian disinformation campaign in Burkina Faso, coups or rebels have removed the governments of five former French colonies, replaci...
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Spy vs. spy: How Israelis tried to stop Russia’s information war in Africa. This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Spy vs. spy: How Israelis tried to stop Russia’s information war in Africa
In the two years since an Israelis company first tried to thwart a Russian disinformation campaign in Burkina Faso, coups or rebels have removed the governments of five former French colonies, replaci...
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
immediate top of reading list 🤓
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
screenshot from trust & safety game, headline “Here Come the Bronies” and text “Users have sent ambiguous complaints concerned about “Brony” activity on the site creating an inappropriate atmosphere for children. After some quick research, you learn that a Brony is a male fan of the TB show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Nuts-kun, a squirrel with tree hair, is a mascot from the town of Satosho in Okayama, Japan.
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Hilary @hilaryisonline.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
hiii i finally got enough fomo and now i'm here.
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