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Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft 404media.co
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit 404media.co
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
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The Future is for Everyone meta.com
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AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney theguardian.com
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Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features wired.com
Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power nytimes.com
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Gross. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...
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A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loo…
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California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media…
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- The Harris County jury assigned 3M 30% liability and awarded $61.5 million, the third plaintiff-favorable verdict across four Watson Grinding trials, with nearly 2,000 additional plaintiffs and a next trial set for October 2026.
- 350 pages of ChatGPT session logs became the primary evidence against the defense's own expert, establishing AI chat histories as discoverable work product in U.S. mass tort proceedings.
- KnightHawk Engineering's formal public response called the coverage a 'selective and negative snapshot' and 'Fake News,' the first on-record denial from a defense engineering firm caught using AI-generated expert testimony.
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NEW from me & @peard33.bsky.social: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that Meta did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and snacks www.wi…
Zuckerberg's philosophy in a nutshell: widely distributed superintelligence will make society safer and more prosperous for everyone. On brand, he’s largely silent on how to overcome inequalities in compute, capital, infrastructure, influence, and control. www.meta.com/thefutu…
“Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.” A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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“In the near future, surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private.” - from a great op-ed by Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @l…
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- Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 ship with an Audio Intelligence suite: Sound Recognition, Music Recognition with Shazam, Live Rewind, and Siri Recap.
- Live Rewind holds a rolling 15-second audio buffer inside a Secure Exclave on the S11 chip and only transcribes when the wearer double-presses the Digital Crown.
- Apple told Wired the features do not create or store recordings, and Live Rewind chimes and shows a mic indicator even when the Watch is on silent.
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Hey @nytimes.com: Where's the actual interview? You merely quote Zuck a handful of times in this piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/t...
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A quote from my essay in the WSJ, “How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age” – available here as a free PDF papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I guess Siri AI can't get any worse than what we have now.
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