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Sofia Herrera

@sofiaareinaa.bsky.social
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Award Winning Global CISO, CPO, Lawyer (not legal advice) | Author | International Speaker | Dogs, Data Privacy & Digital Security | personal account

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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
BTS Stanford night 2 💜💜
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Prime rib for us, shrimp and chicken for the pups. I added cardimom in the dry rub to add some extra Christmas cheer! Merry Christmas everyone 🎅 🎄 ❤️
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
NEW: A newly enacted NY state law requires retailers to reveal whether it used "surveillance pricing" to decide how much you pay for goods. Target, for example, shows the alert on a pop-up when you try to buy eggs online. @regret.bsky.social—@wired.com's new investigative data reporter!—reports:
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Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Spatchcock turkey, the way God intended 😤
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/11/2025
A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep ALPR data secret, making it clear that the public has a right to these records even when the government uses a third-party vendor to conduct surveillance and store personal data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Washington Court Rules That Data Captured on Flock Safety Cameras Are
A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep automated license plate reader (ALPR) data secret.The Skagit County Superior Court in Washington rejected the attempt
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/10/2025
Today on Volts: Redwood Materials, the biggest battery recycler in the US, has launched Redwood Energy, which will gather used batteries & hook them up to power banks to serve as grid-scale storage until they're depleted. I talk with the CTO about the logistics & potential of second-life batteries.
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Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Happy belated Diwali to all that celebrate. May your path to happiness and success be lit 🪔
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters
Camila @camilapress
FULL REPORT: Colombian public media reports that a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15—the second attack on a vessel by the U.S. in the Caribbean that we're aware of—was a Colombian boat and was in Colombian territorial waters.
At least one of the three victims extrajudicially killed in the strike was Colombian lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza. Alejandro's identity is confirmed by his cousin.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
EN VIVO SANTA MARTA - EXCLUSIVO
Señal
Colombia
EN DIRECTO
RTVC NOTICIAS
EXTRA SEGÚN CBS NOTICIAS
15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 LANCHA FUE BOMBARDEADA@*
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"SOUTHCOM was concerned about the operations not being lawful," per CNN reporting. Not surprised. I served in Pentagon assessing counterterrorism operations. I explain constitutional and international legal problems with these Caribbean strikes.⤵️ youtu.be/DHXz_y6Updg?...
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Illegal Caribbean Boat Strikes
YouTube video by Ryan Goodman
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Happy Cybersecurity Awareness month www.techradar.com/pro/security...
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In today's version of, build it and it'll be exploited:
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2025
“The judge or the prosecutor doesn't know which portions were written by the AI and which portions were written by the officer,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told KPBS News. “It interjects a lot of uncertainty — and a lot of deniability for the officer.” www.kpbs.org/news/public...
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Chula Vista, police reports and AI: What you need to know
San Diego County's second-largest city is embracing AI tools for policing as California considers new regulations.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The law that gave companies a safe harbor for monitoring & sharing cyber threat intel (CISA 2015) has expired. Here’s what the lapse means for oversight, contracts, and data sovereignty →
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/09/2025
While Ring has offered end-to-end video encryption since 2021, it isn’t the default setting so users should look into changing the privacy settings on their security cameras, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told WBUR’s Here & Now. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/...
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Ring says police partnerships help solve crimes. What does it mean for your privacy?
Since Amazon acquired Ring, the company has waffled on its messaging around crime and fallen under scrutiny for data privacy failings. Recently announced partnerships with police departments and weapons manufacturer Axon signal a renewed focus on using private cameras to fight crime.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'll be posting a shareable PowerPoint on next steps tomorrow, Oct 1. I've been advising my clients to look beyond government sharing and into contracts & privacy frameworks (policies, employee notice & consent). We've lost a liability shield that has a huge blast radius in the US cyber community.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/09/2025
En U.S. v. Hunt, tener el “hardware” no autoriza hurgar en los datos: la corte trazó la línea y la búsqueda pasó solo porque hubo orden judicial posterior. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Appeals Court: Abandoned Phones Don’t Equal Abandoned Privacy Rights
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and most of the Western U.S., just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn’t abandon your Fourth
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I find this article disingenuous. It's not an Open Source problem (like the article builds the case), but an accuracy and processing problem inherent to *all* LLMs. Transparency in plain language key Are there security risks inherent to Open Source AI models? .... 1/3 fortune.com/2025/09/24/l...
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LexisNexis exec says it’s ‘a matter of time’ before attorneys lose their licenses over using open-source AI pilots in court | Fortune
AI is rapidly being adopted into law firms across the country, and it’s raising stakes for attorneys and their clients alike.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"To counter the troublesome ambition of such men, Lincoln called on his fellow Americans to renew the framers' values and to embrace the Comstitution and its laws." - Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
There is no way nvidia sells chips in China - at least in a meaningful way. Do you think the country that pulled off Operation Shady Rat would open themselves up to potential hardware backdoors from an adversarial country?
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Bay Area has such good colombian food 😋
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
AI builders need to ask themselves: do i *need* a MCP server or am I just doing it because someone said it was hot? Dedicating an entire server to your third party connections may not be the best idea unless you're prepared to do it securely
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Is anyone else absolutely heartbroken by the amount of small businesses selling their last supplies and closing? Coming from a line of small business owners, starting a business is the American dream. Now it's no longer affordable.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I thought this was a cup Ramen flavor at first
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Stay true to yourself, and your value. Don't let anyone try to bury that
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Eeshani Kandpal @eeshani.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Text analysis of Congressional hearings shows that legislators interrupted Yellen (as Fed Chair) more and interacted with her using more aggressive language than they did with male Fed Chairs. But having a daughter reduces “hostility toward Yellen.” So depressing, completely unsurprising.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Famous last words: The code is done, I just need you to push it to GitHub and the changes will reflect automatically #startup #startuplife
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
camping on the Grand Canyon South Rim to see the sunrise and sunset was a peak bucket list activity ✅️ I'll be back for skydiving 🪂
Man holding Maltese dog admires the Grand canyon South rimSelfie of a couple enjoying the sunset over thr Grand CanyonDog smiles while admiring the sunset over the Grand canyonMoments before sunset over the Grand Canyon
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Learning Korean is going well 🤦‍♀️
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Opossum is attack/fire, Skunk is defense/grass, Raccoon is buff/dark
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Guy who has been giving my phone number to debt collectors for over a decade has finally started paying off his debt. Couldn't be happier for him, honestly
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Shot | Chaser
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Jump scare
Barking Scorpion hiding in the crevice of a cinderblock fenceBarking scorpion climbing the wall
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Build it, and it will be exploited
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I was throttled by Google Colab and lost nearly a day of llm training. It was my fault for trying to save time by borrowing higher hardware specs and not saving checkpoints, but still annoying. 🙄
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
100% agreed. Specialized, purposeful AI use will propel us forward
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Move over Liquid Glass, this is the best announcement from #WWDC2025 🙏operation save my VRAM is a go appleinsider.com/articles/25/...
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Sorry Docker: macOS 26 adds native support for Linux containers
Running a Linux virtual machine on Mac can be resource-exhaustive, but Apple just made it much better in macOS 26 with native support for running Linux containers without the need for third-party apps...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/06/2025
“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @wavynews10.bsky.social.
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Dan Goodin @dangoodin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Tracking code Meta and Yandex embed into millions of sites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers discovered. arstechnica.com/security/202...
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Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Haven’t rolled out my beta yet. All I have to do is give my app to my husband and it’s broken within seconds. He used to do QA for Apple, but still. #StartupLife #Dev
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
IYKYK #TheGoodPlace #ChatGPT #DeepSeek
Meme of ChatGPT (Good Janet from The Good Place) vs DeepSeek (Bad Janet from The Good Place)
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Correlation =/= causation, but I’ve been applying to in-house FT gigs lately and my appearance on data broker sites SKYROCKETED around the same time. Now I have to pay for mass removals (yes, it’s that many) or dedicate an entire weekend playing whack-a-mole. Federal data privacy bill now
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Sue Ann Jaffarian @sueannjaffarian.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I am always amazed by the number of readers who have no idea what authors make on their books. Most think we are raking it in. Unless you are one of the authors in the rarefied air at the top, basically you’re making hobby money. You have to love writing to stick with it. #writer #writingcommunity
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I think I Doña’d a little too hard this Sunday. My entire household has been asleep for over an hour after my bandeja paisa brunch. 😅
Woman standing next to griddle making arepasArepas de chocloArepas de choclo
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Finally got around to watching Glass and, all I have to say is, this is what DC should have been 🤷🏻‍♀️
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John Hultquist @hultquist.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you’ve been laid off from a cyber intel position, please reach out if you’d like to come to @sleuthcon.bsky.social.
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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Legal Aid hack: - over 2 million pieces of data gone - 15 yrs worth of info - extremely sensitive data incl details of victims of domestic violence and people’s criminal cases - unbelievable potential for harm well beyond “scams” The CEO says this:
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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Not for nothing, but the obvious, inevitable consequence of ice agents wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves is that people are going to start assaulting people claiming to be ice agents.
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Great article
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Sofia Herrera @sofiaareinaa.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
One cool thing about being your own boss is that you can choose your schedule. One bad thing is that family doesn’t respect your time because “you can just move things around for us, we’re only visiting for a week and a half” every other month, repeat for the in-laws.
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