Tech Policy (Graze Feed)

Nice. El-Sayed is using the video of Mike Rogers telling @stevevladeck.bsky.social that there's no privacy violation if the person whose privacy is being violated never knows about it...

EXCLUSIVE: The Senate GOP campaign arm, in a private memo to top AI companies, warns that data center backlash is killing the party's chances of holding an Ohio seat. “If [Husted] loses and data centers get the blame, politicians across t…

As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the computing sites.

And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI (i.e., building more decentralized, user-…

It’s ten and a half years since I said that tech execs would be seen as the new robber barons. Saying that as a digital strategy advisor to the Obama admjn while he was still in office and many Google + FB alums were making tech policy, it…

Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material.

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many …

I'm not telling anyone what to do or what tech to use or what to like or not like. I'm just relaying that the reputation this place now has is one that a large segment of the population who are NOT fascists, saying they don't feel comforta…

EFF’s Lena Cohen joined Tunnel Vision’s Christophe Haubursin to explain how your personal data is being shared, recorded, and used in the milliseconds before you see an online ad.

Tech bros: our product is going to make us ungodly amounts of money and also may destroy the planet. It’s unavoidable and you must accept it. Also tech bros: people don’t love our product. Do we have a messaging problem.

The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.

If they get to where the provider is willing to indemnify the user for damages caused by inaccurate output or inadvertent disclosure of non-public information, then that would make a difference for me. To my knowledge, nobody yet is, which…