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Madelyn Sanfilippo

@profmrs.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at UIUC / Sociotechnical Governance Scholar / Affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop / baking enthusiast

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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Registration for PrivaCI in Champaign is still open: appserv7.admin.uillinois.edu/FormBuilderS...
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2026 Annual PrivaCI Symposium Registration Form
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Colleen Reynolds @colleenareynolds.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is alarming. Is the NIH banning co-authorship and collaboration with international scientists, including international "researchers temporarily working in the U.S." and "scientists who moved abroad after conducting the work in the U.S."? What is the goal? Scientific isolation from the globe?
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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A PSA to turn off your Ring doorbells, in case the implications of that Super Bowl commercial are not clear! thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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Yan @ynotez.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
THE 8TH ANNUAL PRIVACI SYMPOSIUM privaci.info/symposium/2026/cfp.html We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. IMPORTANT DATES All […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
The CI symposium, Illinois campus with the symposium logo
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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TPRC @tprconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨 The #TPRC54 Call for Proposals is here! 🚨 We’re inviting papers, posters, panels, lightning talks, tutorials & student submissions on the future of communications, information & internet policy. 📅 Submissions open Feb 15 🔗 www.tprcweb.com/tprc54-cfp-o...
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TPRC54 CFP Overview — TPRC - The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Privacy is foundational to activism.
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I wish I was teaching dark patterns this semester... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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ftc v just answers complaint
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Pay-to-link on Facebook foreshadows more misinformation and manipulation thefulcrum.us/media-techno...
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Meta Undermining Trust but Verify through Paid Links
Facebook is testing limits on shared external links, which would become a paid feature through their Meta Verified program, which costs $14.99 per month.This change solidifies that verification badges...
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is probably the last episode of "Reimagining the Internet", the podcast Mike Sugarman and I have produced for the last five years. Talk about going out on a high note: I interview Alondra Nelson on AI, universities and the Trump administration: publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/117-...
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117. Alondra Nelson, Biden's Head of Science and Technology Policy, talks AI, Trump's research funding cuts, and how memes replaced Happy Days - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass A...
Alondra Nelson is arguably the most important sociologist of science in America. She isn’t just a brilliant researcher of how race and racism has shaped public health in America, nor just a thoughtful...
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Tomorrow (July 24) at 11 AM – 12 PM, I will be interviewed by Prem Trivedi at New America’s Open Technology Institute on privacy, technology, and democracy: www.newamerica.org/oti/events/p... Please join us for this event!
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Privacy, Technology, and Protecting Democracy: A Conversation with Daniel Solove
An event unpacking how policy professionals from different fields should understand privacy and its relationship to healthy democracies.
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Anna Lenhart @annalenhart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...
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Ethical Use of Pervasive Data for Research | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University
The IDDP Council for Pervasive Data Ethics - Next Steps for the U.S convened to chart a set of actions to advance ethical practices in computing research.
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The always brilliant Antionette Burton on democracy, feminism, and equity. latinonewsnetwork.com/democracy/ag...
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Against the Present: The Future of Feminism Is Now - Latino News Network
Historians have often excluded Black, Brown and Indigenous women from their narratives, thereby contributing to the erasure of the forms of solidarity and equity those women and their comrades practic...
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Smirity Kaushik @smirity.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excited to share that I’ve defended my dissertation. Grateful to my advisors, Yang Wang and @profmrs.bsky.social for their guidance. Special thanks to Yixin Zou for hosting me at MPI-SP as visiting researcher. Thank you to collaborators, peers, friends, and family. Stay tuned for the next chapter.✨
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
AI scraping bots looking for training data are overwhelming the servers of libraries and archives, making valuable, public resources unavailable to people. We are losing access to original writing and getting gimmicky writing in return through LLMs. #AIEthics #writers www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am so sad. And so tired. If it’s not one thing, it’s everything.
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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 05/05/2025
Explores how people experience, produce, and manage misinformation in their everyday lives. Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons by @profmrs.bsky.social & @melissa1776.bsky.social Out Now & #OpenAccess #LawSky 💙📚 cup.org/40cWUxU
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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
Cambridge Core - Media, Mass Communication - Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Join us in Hawaii next January to present or learn about knowledge and data commons! CFP: governing the digital commons at HICSS 2026 hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-59/in...
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Internet at Work and Play – HICSS
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Dr. Melissa Ocepek @melissa1776.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Co-wrote my first op/ed with the great @profmrs.bsky.social!!! thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I have never hated any single update more than I hate this iOS. Why would you do this to mail?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/02/2025
Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."
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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship
America was once seen as the home of the free internet. That era is now over.
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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This translation of the authors' recent ARIST review emphasizes the critical need for empirical #research on #misinformation governance to guide decision-making & #policy development. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... @profmrs.bsky.social
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Fellow parents, what completely ridiculous thing, you never imagined needing to say at all, do you find yourself repeating? For me: Stop putting rocks in the washing machine!
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In addition to the wonderful research being done on misinformation, its impact, dissemination, and filtering, we need to prioritize governance research, especially on alternative interventions at the community level! With Awa Zhu and Shengnan Yang: informationmatters.org/2024/11/gove...
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Governing Misinformation - Information Matters
This translation of the authors' recent ARIST review, “Sociotechnical Governance of Misinformation,” highlights the urgency and importance of empirical research on misinformation governance to inform ...
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
GKC, knowledge commons, data governance starter pack: go.bsky.app/21AV2bt
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Henry AI Kissinger is a great example of why AI breaks all contextual norms. Just because you were an expert on one thing does NOT mean, in death and/or by extension, that you can be an expert on everything.
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Did you take “civics” in school? What approximate year and state? Trying to address an interesting hunch provoked in a Q&A today… Thanks!
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
My small contribution to the dialogue on how we can address election misinformation, in light of governance failures. thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Join us for a discussion on Speech, Power, and Consequences! @samuelanimates.bsky.social and Anika Collier Navaroli and I will discuss dealing with the risks of public speech next Tuesday evening.
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LIS Pedagogy Chat @lispedagogychat.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
We’re back! Join us Friday, August 23 at 2 pm ET for our first chat of the year! We’re discussing access friction - when choices that make a course more accessible for one student make it less accessible for someone else. Learn more and register at www.lispedagogychat.org/schedule-reg...
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LIS Pedagogy Chat
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Nothing like Run, Hide, Fight resources to really get in the back to school mood.
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
What can universities do to influence AI development and use in a socially responsible way? cacm.acm.org/opinion/arti...
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Artificial Intelligence, Social Responsibility, and the Roles of the University – Communications of the ACM
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
What might a Harris presidency mean for how we govern AI? On this and other critical policy issues, last week’s RNC made the choice between Vice President Harris and Donald Trump stark. Read my take in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with Ami Fields-Meyer, former tech policy advisor to the VP:
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
"Its surveillance plans, including controversial use of experimental AI video surveillance, are so extensive that the country had to change its laws to make the planned surveillance legal." #Olympics #AIEthics www.fastcompany.com/91158664/par...
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Why AI mass surveillance for the Paris Olympics is a privacy nightmare - Fast Company
Government and private companies will be using advanced AI and other tech to conduct pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during, and after the Games.
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
On behalf of all academic parents, STOP SCHEDULING CONFERENCES OVER HOLIDAY BREAKS FROM SCHOOL. It is vastly simpler to teach one lecture on Zoom than it is to make child care arrangements.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/05/2024
OpenAI has been outright lying to everyone about their capabilities and accomplishments, which: We told you so. But I do appreciate @juliaangwin.com always doing the solid work to lay it out plain. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/o...
But some of A.I.’s greatest accomplishments seem inflated. Some of you may remember that the A.I. model ChatGPT-4 aced the uniform bar exam a year ago. Turns out that it scored in the 48th percentile, not the 90th, as claimed by OpenAI, according to a re-examination by the M.I.T. researcher Eric Martínez. Or what about Google’s claim that it used A.I. to discover more than two million new chemical compounds? A re-examination by experimental materials chemists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found “scant evidence for compounds that fulfill the trifecta of novelty, credibility and utility.”
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
We need to broaden participation in tech policy making! Policies need to be technically possible and responsive to community needs. visiblemagazine.com/tiktok-ban-n...
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TikTok Ban Needs More Work by Madelyn Sanfilippo - VISIBLE Magazine
President Joe Biden signed into law a requirement for ByteDance to sell TikTok or be banned from U.S. app markets. TikTok has initiated a legal challenge. This law, while framed around national securi...
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
Interesting legislation: Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act, recently introduced by California Democratic congressman Adam Schiff. H/T Bruna Trevelin, who helped me understand some key points. 1/ schiff.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
I love collective action
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Plan for the end of digital life! Save your loved ones lots of headaches! thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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Brian Greenberg @briangreenberg.net · 14/01/2024
The FTC’s case against adtech giant Kochava highlights how much data brokers know everything about us #security #privacy #cloud #cyber #cybersecurity #infosec apple.news/AWS-qVGqGR--...
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The FTC’s case against adtech giant Kochava highlights how much data brokers know everything about...
The FTC’s recently unsealed amended complaint against Kochava makes clear that there’s truth to what Kochava advertises: it can provide data for “Any Channel, Any Device, Any Audience,” and bu...
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
tl;dr Don't install (and more generally avoid) the Internet of Things via @ianbrown.tech
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Madelyn Sanfilippo @profmrs.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Generative AI in advertising poses a consumer protection disaster and requires regulatory oversight regarding privacy and dark patterns. thefulcrum.us/generative-a...
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