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Vincent Toubiana

@vtoubiana.bsky.social
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Head of LINC (CNIL's Digital Innovation Lab), see our work there : linc.cnil.fr Former CNNum/Arcep/FTC(intern)/Bell-Labs/NYU. DM Open

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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are these real rogue agents? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
wsj.com
Exclusive | OpenAI Parts Ways With Researchers Who Allegedly Shared Confidential Information
The AI startup is in the throes of responding to several incidents in which its AI models went rogue.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 01/10/2026
Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of wearable recording devices was too broad (Sophie Austin/Associated Press) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you need to explain to someone why the ‘Rogue AI’ framing is both wrong and harmful, actually blocking our view of what safety and responsibility requires in AI, this will help:
noemamag.com
The AIs Are Not Going Rogue | NOEMA
But they still pose risks.
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New: I wrote about the “privacy safeguards” that tech companies are putting on pervert glasses and other consumer surveillance devices, to obscure the fact that these devices violate consent by design My latest in @theverge.com (Gift Link) ⬇️ bit.ly/4dUwffE
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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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Alderik @alderik.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
“Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/t...
nytimes.com
California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.
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Michaël Szadkowski ☑️ @szadkowski.fr · 11/09/2026
Les affaires d’enregistrements d’images par des lunettes Meta, puis de leur diffusion non consenties, se multiplient en France. Associations et victimes se mobilisent, tandis que les régulateurs comme la CNIL font du sujet une priorité. www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
lemonde.fr
« Un nouveau problème de société », pour les femmes et la vie privée : pourquoi les lunettes connectées, comme les Ray-Ban Meta, inquiètent
L’association e-Enfance révèle avoir reçu plus d’une vingtaine de signalements depuis le début de l’année concernant des femmes filmées à leur insu par ce type de lunettes. Bien qu’encore considérés c...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026
Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.
a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Verfassungsschutz, refers to the sale of mobile app location data as a "grave privacy intrusion" and warns that foreign actors may use the data to approach or attack individuals in the security/defense industries: www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
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Mathieu Cunche @cunchem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
👁️ Fnac / Darty utilisent des caméras installées sous des écrans pour détecter et compter les visiteurs en magasin 📊 📈 . Cette solution s’appelle Bilan DOOH : "Mesurez l’impact de vos campagnes d’affichage numérique" *DOOH : publicité extérieure numérique retailink.fr/nos-solution...
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Deep inside, I kinda hope that : 1) Trump starts a feud with the UK, 2) Trump signs an EO asking to replace all instances of "English" by "American"
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: Disturbance in the Force
ALT: Obi-Wan Kenobi: Disturbance in the Force
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
In a short span of time we went from people speculating that companies were listening to their conversations to companies offering listening to your conversations as a feature.
theverge.com
Plaud is launching AI earbuds
An AI wearable, but for your ears.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/08/2026
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...
wired.com
I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
“Rather than FaceTiming a teen while they're taking a trip, parents and guardians will be able to view a live video feed from the selfie camera on the driver's phone and get a broader look inside the vehicle. Uber says the aim is to help give parents some piece of mind.”
engadget.com
Uber will let parents peek through a driver's selfie camera when teens are taking a trip - Engadget
Uber will only access recordings from a driver's phone to review safety reports.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New: Target staff "pranked" for social media; a comedian filmed mid-set; a Sprouts worker whose boss started wearing Meta glasses; and a cashier worried customers are filming down her shirt. Meta glasses are in the workplace, and workers feel powerless to stop it. 🎁 www.theverge.com/report/98241...
theverge.com
Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 18/08/2026
Comcast is activating free Wi-Fi motion sensing on Xfinity gateways, allowing its routers to detect movement at home. www.theverge.com/news/981381/...
theverge.com
Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors
Comcast is activating free Wi-Fi motion sensing on Xfinity gateways, allowing its routers to detect movement at home.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Interesting choice for the Zoom background by Flock's CEO
Screenshot of Flock CEO Garrett Langley with a framed headline on the desk behind him that reads 'Snitching-ass startup raises $10 million to privatize the surveillance state.'
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
"The Bundeskartellamt’s proceeding aims at achieving that the future design of the ATTF complies with competition law" www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/M...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14/08/2026
Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 13/08/2026
AI-enabled smart glasses are becoming more common, but for Meta’s Ray-Bans, accessibility may be coming at the cost of privacy. In Tech Policy Press, CDT’s @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social examines how Meta has invoked disability access to justify potentially intrusive features.
techpolicy.press
For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought
Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 13/08/2026
Spain arrests man who used AI face-swapping to obtain digital-signing certificates for other people and businesses www.interior.gob.es/opencms/en/d...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11/08/2026
Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext (Will Knight/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Good assessment of OpenAI/HuggingFace. In short, OpenAI really, really, really messed up here thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
thezvi.substack.com
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
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theguardian.com
‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content
Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Because builders of such tools often treat these systems as proprietary, employers who deploy them may not fully know how they were developed, what data they were trained on, or how rigorously they were evaluated for bias, if at all” www.fastcompany.com/91578528/its...
fastcompany.com
It's time to open the black box of AI-driven employment decisions
Is the technology making workplace discrimination worse?
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"The most advanced technologies can now infer missing syllables in the way that a reader fills in a redacted word from context, allowing them to reconstruct speech that wasn’t cleanly captured in the first place." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
Everything You Do Is Being Recorded
Is there any way of fighting back?
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 07/08/2026
By me, at this.weekinsecurity.com: Microsoft wins "lamest vendor response" award at this year's Pwnie Awards, for publishing a blog post earlier this year threatening security researchers with legal action if they published zero-days. Also: Meta wins "epic fail" award after its Meta AI hijack bug.
this.weekinsecurity.com
Microsoft wins 'lamest vendor' at Pwnie Awards 2026 for threatening security researchers with legal action
"This is a shame award. Don't forget to feel that shame."
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Alderik @alderik.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
"[V]enues from elite restaurants to popular pub chains have banned the £359 glasses in order to preserve the privacy of customers and staff. [..] various theatres across London, said [..] that those wearing the glasses during shows will be asked to remove them." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all
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European Data Protection Supervisor @edps.europa.eu · 07/08/2026
Web privacy checks made easy by #EDPS. 🍪Cookies or 📍trackers constantly interact with your #personaldata. To bring transparency, we built the Website Evidence Collector or #WEC – a free, open-source tool to automatically audit site compliance. #ICYMI learn more how to use it: link.europa.eu/cmngKG
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026
Gonna reference @lukestark.bsky.social like I always do. Facial recognition is the “plutonium of ai.” There’s no “benign” use, particularly where Facebook is involved.
gizmodo.com
Meta Thinks It Can Convince You That Smart Glasses Need Facial Recognition
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth pinky promises there will be no 'central database' of faces.
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
⏰Dernier jour pour s'inscrire au #PrivacyResearchDay 👉 www.cnil.fr/en/privacy-r...
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J.K. Simmons: This Is Your Last Chance
Alt: J.K. Simmons: This Is Your Last Chance
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Surprisingly, the US embassy in the UK supports End-to-end Encryption (and also VPNs) uk.usembassy.gov/u-s-governme...
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Ofcom’s study of VPN use by teenagers has been published a few weeks ago (www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...). I encourage you to read the full results of this survey that looks at the use 2167 children between 11 and 17 and to draw your own conclusions.
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Le législateur Californien propose d'introduire une exemption pour Linux pour la vérification d'âge : www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...
tomshardware.com
California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the ori...
SteamOS could still be affected
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Cox, la société qui proclamait écouter les conversations des personnes pour cibler les publicités, sanctionnée par la FTC pour ... tromperie vis a vis des annonceurs : www.theverge.com/policy/93702...
theverge.com
Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones
It compared the tech to Black Mirror — but it apparently didn’t exist.
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
There are a few problems in this note: some links are mixed-up, making it hard to follow the argument. Most importantly, it means that the note may not have been correctly reviewed before publication. www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud... e.g. the two links in this sentence have been permuted 1/4
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Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee @libe.europarl.europa.eu · 04/05/2026
🔞📱 Hearing on age verification to protect minors online Agenda: link.europa.eu/gYHYFX Panel 1 ⏲️15.00 🗣Yvo Volman @ec.europa.eu, @vtoubiana.bsky.social (🇫🇷 Data Protection Authority), Francisco Pérez Bes (🇪🇸 Data Protection Authority) 6/11
link.europa.eu
Age verification, assurance & estimation techniques for protection of minors online | Hearings | Events | LIBE | Committees | European Parliament
All the available information relating to LIBE hearings. Links to programmes and contributions from speakers.
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New @citizenlab.ca report with an incredibly sophisticated analysis of covert surveillance operations with a focus on location tracking, which target phones by exploiting global 3G/4G telecom networks and sending invisible SMS while acting as trusted telecom operators: citizenlab.ca/research/unc...
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The Citizen Lab Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose h...
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Intuitively, I'd have: -list all the kid-activities before comparing the cities for a family trip - decided which city i'd visit before drafting the itinerary I'm probably getting old about.fb.com/news/2026/04...
Description of a change made to Meta Ai that can now launcher multiple subagents. The exemple says "Like planning a family trip to Florida where one agent drafts the itinerary, another compares Orlando vs. the Keys, and a third finds kid-friendly activities — all at the same time, giving you a better answer, faster."
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Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Meta's smart glasses make it easy to secretly film people. It's mostly women bearing the fallout. "...a stranger had secretly recorded her using smart glasses and uploaded the video to Instagram and TikTok, where it amassed more than 30,000 views in the span of a week." www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
cbc.ca
Women are being secretly filmed with smart glasses. Outdated privacy laws make it tough to get videos removed | CBC Radio
Smart glasses make it remarkably easy to film someone without their consent. And those who study covert filming say it can create a physical and psychological threat, from stalkers to increased anxiet...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 10/03/2026
At 2pm Paris time today I'll be testifying in the French Parliament about digital sovereignty. Watch it live at videos.assemblee-nationale.fr/direct.php!
videos.assemblee-nationale.fr
En direct - Vidéos de l'Assemblée nationale
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Chloé Woitier @chloew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Quelle angoisse : le site britannique Videogamer a licencié tous ses rédacteurs la semaine dernière, et depuis le site ne publie plus que du contenu IA (avec de faux profils de faux rédacteurs), dont des tests de jeu ??? kotaku.com/resident-evi...
kotaku.com
Metacritic Removes Resident Evil 9 Review From Fake AI Writer
Videogamer's human staff was wiped out and replaced with AI slop
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Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
📢 The 5th Privacy Research Day will take place on June 24 📅 The call is open until March 22 Topics: 🧒 Vulnerable Users 🗺️ Internationalisation of privacy 🤖 AI 🕶️ Wearables/IoT 🧑‍🔬 Science & regulation 💳 Digital economy 🛡️ PETs 🔓 Usable Security & Privacy More information: www.cnil.fr/en/call-pape...
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Finally a home for Grok-generated CSAM the EU doesn't want you to see
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 11/02/2026
Google "provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024 while attending Cornell University in New York"
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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
My point here is that many of the data brokers trafficking in consumer data are not registered in California, many are fly-by-night operations, and frankly, aren’t paragons of integrity. Asking—only the ones known about—to delete data post hoc is closing the barn door after the horse has left. 9/
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