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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

www.theverge.com/transportation/100… Amazing work by Sarah, Nicole, and the rest of the team! And many thanks to Consumer Reports for saying “yes” when I posed the somewhat ridiculous idea of letting a bunch of researchers test over […]

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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

I was on CBS Sunday Morning today! They cut most of what we talked about, but kept a good few choice quotes. And no I don’t own a yacht… youtu.be/mIOA3nQclOM

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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

Super interesting work from my graduated PhD student Talha. Ends up GenAI hallucinations are good for *something*!

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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

Are airlines moving toward individualized pricing? We have reasons to be skeptical about their responses so far. www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institu…

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Tech Brief: Airplane Response

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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025

Kicking off our workshop on Policy-Relevant Privacy Reseach (PR2), colocated with @PET_Symposium 2025 in DC: pr2.technologypolicyworkshop.org With Athina Markopoulou and Zubair Shafiq

Photo of organizers for PR2 workshop, with intro slide on the screen behind them.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 03/01/2025

I wrote about how the Trumplican court attack on net neutrality is about way more than just "net neutrality" It's about completely dismantling whatever's left of already feckless U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection

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Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection)

The telecom industry (with the help of the recent Trump Supreme Court), has been drooling for months at the prospect that the Trump-stocked courts would soon finally deliver the killing blow to FCC…

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/01/2025

let's play a game find me an article on today's net neutrality ruling that mentions corruption exists or that harmful telecom monopolies exist or that mindlessly taking a hatchet to popular consumer protections isn't populist or that the telecom lobby spends $320k A DAY lobbying government

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net neutrality - Google Search

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/01/2025

I mean, this is a terrible (if unsurprising) decision, but I'm left wondering how Brendan Carr is going to still try to claim regulatory authority over social media companies... There is no possible consistency between "ISPs can throttle and block, but edge services cannot..."

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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2024

Is your phone surreptitiously listening to you? Probably not: it doesn't need to. I discussed this and more with Clare Duffy (CNN) on Terms of Service: www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of…

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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2024

My colleagues and I found a confluence of invasive web tracking and gig worker signups leading to SSN data being sent to Meta and TikTok, from Uber and Lyft driver signup forms. It’s been fixed by the latter two, but the peril of web form tracking remains. More details about this story of four […]

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David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2024

The IMC Steering Committee is soliciting site proposals for IMC 2026! Preference is for locations outside of North America, for more details, see this doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ly3CJS5…

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