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Joseph Jerome

@joejerome.com
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Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 11h
Maybe Google will just change it when you look up OpenAI’s office in Maps?
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 29/09/2026
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Atomic Bomb Explosion: Mushroom Cloud
ALT: Atomic Bomb Explosion: Mushroom Cloud
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 28/09/2026
Reminded me of @reckless.bsky.social's recent interview with Adam Connover about the plight of the "content creator."
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Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Privacy lawyers explaining federal privacy legislation and tech lobbyists efforts over the last decade:
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You See It Is All Part of the Plan Meme
Alt: You See It Is All Part of the Plan Meme
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 27/09/2026
At the end of the day, lying is bad, reflects @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 24/09/2026
Abusing "a/c priv" has become a joke across Big Tech. www.law360.com/articles/252...
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 24/09/2026
“The problem, which tech companies have surely realized, is that this “warn and record” design approach is fundamentally incompatible with the established social norms of shared spaces.”
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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 21/09/2026
Who possibly would have thought that Google would slow walk even the court's most meager of remedies? #Maliciouscompliance is the ballgame for a monopolist. www.mlex.com/mlex/artific...
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 19/09/2026
None of these terms are more elegant or accurate, but this is what passes for AI policy from the White House now.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
With the US strategic defeat by Iran, what are the long held assumptions that must be revised? "All the foundations of the unipolar world have vanished. " @policytensor sums up what we have learned since February. Hard to disagree with any of them.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 18/09/2026
Our lawmakers do not want to make laws.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 17/09/2026
It's the last day of the @duckduckgo.com meet-up, so time for a new headshot!
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 16/09/2026
Team bonding via Goldeneye. Oddjob is obviously OP, but Boris also seemed to work well for folks.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 15/09/2026
The team gets really into themes and tiny details.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 14/09/2026
Every year, @duckduckgo.com hosts an all-staff meetup to bring our otherwise remote and distributed company together. This year, we’re in Canada, outside beautiful Montreal talking about the future of privacy online (and maybe playing a bit of Goldeneye).
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 14/09/2026
By the end of last season, watching #Packers games was a chore. Sad to say it seems that’s continued.
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Frictionless Grating with Cooking Spray
ALT: Frictionless Grating with Cooking Spray
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 14/09/2026
It’s just so depressing. I just never expect the Packers to win at this point.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 14/09/2026
Just a disaster.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 13/09/2026
My favorite part of @ryanselvy.com’s takedown of @wmata.com’s design changes is the VR cameo. Good to see a Meta Quest 2 in action! www.instagram.com/reel/DdMs9wI...
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 11/09/2026
The amount of ink spilled over the specifications of this damn surveillance glass light is a convenient distraction from the larger ethics of these things.
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...
anthropic.com
An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents
We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New from me: The NY Times piece criticized Mamdani for using influencers to share his agenda. But negativity bias means that legacy media like the Times does not cover substantive government stories about Mamdani trying to make the government work better. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/publish/post...
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Mamdani, media, and negativity bias
Is it possible to get credit for focusing on implementation?
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 03/09/2026
The "law" seems unable to recognize itself as a political actor, because that would undermine the entire priesthood.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 01/09/2026
The people have spoken. We are working.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Absolute cowards: blog.google/products-and...
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How the GNIS Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps …
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 27/08/2026
Might add that obvious and rabid enshittification of the tech services people liked and experienced on a daily basis may also be contributing to the Techlash.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The backlash to data centers, Flock, Meta glasses, and AI, is loud, animated, bipartisan, and wielding real power. It's the most popular and united political movement in the nation right now, and it's still growing. So of course Silicon Valley is in complete denial.
bloodinthemachine.com
With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.
The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 26/08/2026
Nothing stops Meta. www.barrons.com/articles/met...
barrons.com
Meta Stock Rises on $17 Billion Social-Media Trial Settlement
Meta Platforms stock was gaining on news of its settlement over a trial alleging its platforms caused harm to children.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I watched 8 hours of Roku’s 24/7 AI slop channel (bc I hate myself) to try and figure out: Who on Earth is this for? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Home Slopping Network
A new channel on Roku’s TV service offers all-you-can-eat AI programming. I binged eight hours of it.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 20/08/2026
Jason Kelce is something. kotaku.com/liquid-death...
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Jason Kelce Ad Asks Us To Send Piss To Our Local AI Data Center
The former NFL player suggests you pee in a jar and put it in the mail
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 18/08/2026
It is in our nature to destroy ourselves.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 18/08/2026
There is no data that Google won’t try to grab.
news.bloomberglaw.com
Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data
Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records from collapsed low-cost carrier Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc., saying it plans to ...
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 12/08/2026
Tell that to … CNN.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 08/08/2026
Wanna bet Meta’s excited about about their pervert glasses? They’re breaking through more than previous generations of glasses, and they aren’t even trying with their privacy talking points. archive.ph/2IjmT
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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tired: Glasshole Wired: Metahole (but I also like Zuck-eyed or Faceborg)
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 05/08/2026
@duckduckgo.com filed an amicus brief yesterday in Google’s absurd appeal that it isn’t a monopoly. We explain how Google’s actions harmed not just competition but also undermined people’s ability to protect their privacy. spreadprivacy.com/google-appea... #antitrust
spreadprivacy.com
Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI
In August, DuckDuckGo filed an amicus brief agreeing that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 03/08/2026
The TC’s deadlines are so divorced from reality, and of course, once the template is done, Google is going to go get a stay anyway.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Open Home Foundation @openhomefoundation.org · 31/07/2026
Google restricted key Android features to its own apps. When the European Commission asked us what we thought about about it, we had plenty to say. And they listened. Alphabet must now open up 11 Android features to third-party assistants. Read more 👇
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A big win for Android interoperability – Open Home Foundation
Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 01/08/2026
You almost have to feel for Google’s content moderation team, but “Don’t be evil” hasn’t been the rule of the road for awhile.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google's statement that it includes a watermark that can identify them as AI-generated is completely braindead as to how disinformation works. You think people spending literally three seconds to derail a discussion give a shit about that? This is so easy to abuse www.404media.co/google-earth...
Asked for comment, Google pointed 404 Media to a tweet the company posted on Thursday. “We take misinformation seriously – every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital watermark, so if someone is unsure about an image, they can ask the Gemini app or use Lens in Search to see if the image was AI-generated. In addition, we prevent image creation on harmful topics and are continually updating our protections,” it read. 
This of course ignores the very obvious fact that plenty of people do not bother to verify themselves if an image is real or not. People spreading misinformation also often don’t care about eventually getting caught; they can cause a massive amount of damage to a certain conversation very quickly before anyone calls them out for their bullshit.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/07/2026
Shh... Don’t tell anyone... We made some wearables. Coming soon.
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 29/07/2026
Also Mark Zuckerberg: The era of superintelligence is here!
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 29/07/2026
What’s the expression? Truth is paywalled and lies are free.
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Laurel @balancecraft.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
DOJ/States response/appeal brief was filed tonight in Google search appeal. Here are the remedies topics. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 26/07/2026
@parismarx.com raises the valid point that libraries couldn’t be started today. Corporate interests have worked tirelessly to gatekeep information, and the drive toward AI is a manifestation of this.
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