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Mayu Tobin-Miyaji

@mayu-tm.bsky.social
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Tech law & privacy 👩🏻‍💻 Law Fellow at @EPICprivacy 💼 Fordham law & Rice University alum 👩🏻‍🎓

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Caitriona Fitzgerald @caitrionafitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The SECURE Data Act is not a serious effort at tackling the urgent privacy crisis facing this country. It is weaker than many existing state laws (the very state laws that it would wipe off the books with its broad preemption provision). Some examples:
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
FUCK ICE FOREVER
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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WasWrecked&NowImFound @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New from 404 Media: photos we were sent show the aftermath of a National Guard vehicle in DC t-boning a civilian vehicle. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) All Terrain Vehicle was previously used in the Afghanistan War. Now bashing peoples' cars in U.S. www.404media.co/a-national-g...
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A National Guard Tactical Vehicle T-Boned a Civilian Car in D.C.
Emergency workers sent a civilian to the hospital after an Afghanistan War era military vehicle smashed into their car.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 09/07/2025
DHS “Tiger Team” Scrutinizing Student Protesters Was Told to Investigate 5,000 Names Listed by Canary Mission, ICE Official Testifies. Check out more highlights from Day 3 of trial at the link: knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...
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AAUP v. Rubio, Daily Trial Updates
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Mayu Tobin-Miyaji @mayu-tm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is huge, and a testament to the great work by 404 media's incisive reporting on the law enforcement surveillance apparatus across the U.S. www.404media.co/flock-remove...
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Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
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Mayu Tobin-Miyaji @mayu-tm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So proud to have this report out today! Thanks to the support from my amazing team at EPIC 🎉
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Caitriona Fitzgerald @caitrionafitz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee wrote to #23andme saying that since there is no federal comprehensive data privacy law, they have "great concern" about the safety of Americans' most sensitive personal info. Not at all frustrating. energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
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Chairmen Guthrie, Bilirakis, and Palmer Launch Investigation into 23andMe and its Handling of Americans’ Sensitive Medical and Genetic Information
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
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EPIC @epic.org · 03/04/2025
EPIC & @consumerreports.org are pleased to re-release the State Data Privacy Act with lots of new endorsements! Now endorsed by: Accountable Tech | CDT | Common Sense Media | CFA | Issue One | PIRG | Public Knowledge | Young People's Alliance Learn more: epic.org/state-data-privacy-act
Logos of endorsing orgs
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EPIC @epic.org · 03/04/2025
EPIC updated our tracker on real-life harms from algorithmic systems in California – check it out here: epic.org/update-track...
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Update: Tracking of Real Algorithmic Harms in California as Enforcement Continues
<p>As part of our project Assessing the Assessments—supported by the Rose Foundation—EPIC is continuing to track instances of real AI harms that are relevant to enforcement of the California Consumer ...
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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EPIC @epic.org · 04/03/2025
⚠️ BREAKING: Last Friday, EPIC sued the Office of Personnel Management under the Freedom of Information Act seeking records on the agency's information security and worker privacy practices. 🧵 (1/4)  Read more about our complaint here: epic.org/breaking-epi...
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BREAKING: EPIC Sues OPM for Records on OPM’s Information Security and Employee Privacy Practices
<p>Last Friday, EPIC sued the Office of Personnel Management under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) after the agency failed to respond to EPIC’s requests for records concerning OPM’s information ...
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EPIC @epic.org · 14/02/2025
Kroger is using surveillance pricing is trying to manipulate how much you spend on groceries by collecting as much data as they can about you— and it's not just creepy, you're probably paying more for grocery because of it. 🧵 Check out @mayu-tm.bsky.social's blog post: epic.org/krogers-surv...
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Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition
<p>Every time you step into a grocery store, you step into a machinery of data that tracks, analyzes, shares, and influences your shopping behavior. Based on shopping history and data shared from data...
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Mayu Tobin-Miyaji @mayu-tm.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So proud of my colleagues’ work on this!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/01/2025
Begging the political press to stop just reporting on what Trump says he's done, and actually investigating what has *actually* happened. The focus on rushing out stories to be first is letting the MAGA world play you over and over and over again.
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EPIC @epic.org · 28/01/2025
Nearly 1/2 of states that passed consumer privacy laws get a failing grade for protecting consumers’ data, according to The State of Privacy, an updated scorecard from EPIC & U.S. PIRG Education Fund. See your state’s report card: epic.org/state-of-privacy-2025 spoiler alert: no state earned an A!
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EPIC @epic.org · 16/01/2025
🚨 EPIC and Enforce (@iccl.bsky.social) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵 Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
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Cobun Zweifel-Keegan @cobun.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Next Sunu reads her first poem of the day, and makes me cry for the first time today... www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...
October on the subway, roses at my side
kids being loud. One skinny girl
with a cap and a pretty smile
gets up to give me her seat
and takes this chance to sit
on her friend’s lap. I read the paper
and look over at these girls. So free
and easy they are laughing laughing.
I look at the pink pink roses
and how I say I am not a romantic
and how this whole roses thing
is going to ruin my reputation
against romance. I watch the girls. I watch
the skinny girl in boy’s clothes and pretty smile
flirt with all the other girls. So free
and easy they are laughing laughing.

And the man next to me, he is also watching watching.
And the man next to me, he leans over and says to me:

Hey Miss, Hey Miss, that’s too pretty to be a boy, right?

As if somehow that thought disgusts him.
As if he wants some agreement about this disgust.
And me I am just relieved that he knows
that I am a Miss and not a pretty boy. So I just shrug
and I say nothing because it is 1997 and I am still
afraid. Afraid to say what does a she look like
and what does a boy look like. And what does too pretty
look like and what is your problem exactly. And I don’t know
whether his disgust is that he thinks girls who look
like boys should be beat
up or boys who look like girls should be beat
up because, in fact, we know, they both are. I only know
that I was relieved that he did not know my pink
pink roses were for a girl and somehow I have this safety
of passing and I think to myself:
You all sitting there laughing laughing
sitting there on your sixth grade girlfriend’s lap
so free and easy, laughing laughing,
be safe my handsome girls, be safe my pretty boys.
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