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Ben Winters

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director of AI and privacy at Consumer Federation of America | teaching tech policy law/reg @udclaw | formerly EPIC (the privacy one not the bad ones), and DOJ Civil Rights division| ⚫️⚪️+🗽 | 🐦 🐿 | he/him contact: [email protected]
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404 Media @404media.co

Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool. www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius 404media.co
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  • Leaked logs quantify scraping per platform: 2M+ YouTube clips, 62,117 Pond5 hours, 12,287 Deezer hours, 17,615 Genius hours, and roughly 1M podcast hours.
  • Suno publicly called the breach 'limited' and 'quickly contained' while withholding notification from customers whose emails, phone numbers, and Stripe records were exposed.
  • TechCrunch flags a distinct DMCA angle: deliberately circumventing YouTube's anti-scraping protections is a separate violation from copyright infringement in the underlying suits.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social

"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."

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404 Media @404media.co

"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great."

Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras 404media.co
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  • Verona, Wisconsin covered three Flock license plate cameras with black plastic bags in January after the vendor did not remove them following the city's November vote to end the contract.
  • Emails obtained by 404 Media show Flock issued a work order for maintenance rather than removal, and a Flock employee said they were unsure the cameras could be remotely disabled.
  • Mayor Luke Diaz said the council acted after officers elsewhere in the country accessed Verona's Flock cameras on behalf of immigration agents.
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@consumerfed.bsky.social

“This type of behavior is not unique for #Meta,” says @benwinters.bsky.social, director of #AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America. “They are stewards of the opt-out status quo that we find ourselves in."

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social

"The task of writing legislation is filled with crucial details that can trip up AI agents — for instance, whether a particular pot of money should be a tax credit, tax deduction, tax exclusion or a grant. AI is going to miss those nuances." www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

politico.com
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  • The House Office of Legislative Counsel spends more time fixing AI-drafted bills than writing them from scratch, per eight current and former officials.
  • Requests for legislation ran 72% higher in 2025 than in the same period in 2023, according to the Politico report.
  • A June NDAA amendment from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna went out with 'Claude responded:' still sitting in its summary.
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it is hilariously difficult to guess whether a given commercial is for Jesus or an AI tool

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