Articles by hn_acker
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Flock (Again) Activates a Camera System a Town Had Voted to Shut Down (techdirt.com)

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Not Ready for Prime Time: The Current State of Legal Ethics and AI (techdirt.com)

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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras (foiaball.com)

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Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered (techdirt.com)

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we've learned (aiddata.org)

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Election candidate who quit still beat the other candidate because of his name (donmoynihan.substack.com)

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9th Circuit misrepresented Section 230 as liability defense rather than immunity (bsky.app)

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The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (pluralistic.net)

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NYC Tenants Sue over Spying Operation in Public Housing (prospect.org)

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Trump administration warns against using federal dollars on fentanyl test strips (statnews.com)

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Digital Sewer Socialism (pluralistic.net)

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When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz (agentsofinfluence.substack.com)

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Wildfire misinformation is mutating online, thanks to AI slop (thenarwhal.ca)

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Carr's FCC Rewrites Media Ownership Law Only Congress Can Change (techdirt.com)

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Social dynamics of AI adoption in parents' educational decisions (pnas.org)

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A Year of Saving Our Signs (datarescueproject.org)

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California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (techdirt.com)

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Immigration as a Test Case for Executive AI Governance (lawfaremedia.org)

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Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content (abc.net.au)

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Will AI Sycophancy Contaminate Law Enforcement? (techpolicy.press)

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[flagged] Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges (abovethelaw.com)

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Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators to Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges (yahoo.com)

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Trump Admin Hijacked $21B in Internet Access Funding and Then Went Mute (techdirt.com)

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Google Is a Scammer's Paradise (pluralistic.net)

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Using Trust and Safety Tycoon in the Classroom (techdirt.com)

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Meta Backs Off Sloppy Gambit to Nickel-and-Dime AI Glasses Customers (techdirt.com)

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Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries That Betray Your Users' Location Privacy (eff.org)

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First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires (outdoorlife.com)

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Technology Freedom Cooperative Offers Civil Society Independence from Big Tech (hrdag.org)

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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts from Paramount (propublica.org)

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EFF Joins Call for FTC to Drop Its Disastrous AI Policy Proposal (eff.org)

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Gavin Newsom Makes an Ass of Himself on Antitrust, Paramount Merger (techdirt.com)

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Trump admin moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws (theconversation.com)

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When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – brain study (theconversation.com)

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Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters (theconversation.com)

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If AI Outputs Aren't Speech, Who Has to Prove They're Human? (lawfaremedia.org)

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[flagged] TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past (prospect.org)

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Dualism (pluralistic.net)

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CJEU Judgment on Knowledge of Foreign Copyright Laws and Geoblocking Measures (ericgoldman.org)

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The Chatbot Act Forces One Parenting Model on Every Family (eff.org)

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The Screen Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites (eff.org)

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New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (wired.com)

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[flagged] Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements (commondreams.org)

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What Is Digital Sovereignty (documentfoundation.org)

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Better to Beg Forgiveness (pluralistic.net)

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Izzy: 'Google abuses "SafeSearch" to flag our fdroid-mirror as "malicious"' (floss.social)

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"A deal with the devil": Religion motivates data center opponents in Texas (texastribune.org)

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Poll: Percentages of voters who would stick by a candidate through scandals (politico.com)

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A data center wanted to buy a farm to use water legally reserved for irrigation (techradar.com)

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Climate change's heat tax on the UK's labour force and economy (lse.ac.uk)

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Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate (propublica.org)

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When You Reject Cookies, You Might Be Agreeing to Arbitration (ericgoldman.org)

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The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (pluralistic.net)

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Ultrafine Particles: Global Study Attributes Nearly 2M Premature Deaths a Year (mpic.de)

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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos (windowslatest.com)

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Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression' (npr.org)

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San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing (eff.org)

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WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web (w3.org)

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Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons? (eff.org)

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Discernment: Fact-check an AI teaching you something you don't understand? (pluralistic.net)

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What They Want to Hear: The Politicization of U.S. Intelligence (lawfaremedia.org)

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Fire-loving fungi are nature's first responders after wildfire, renewing soil (cbc.ca)

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Blanche-led DOJ likely to derail Epstein survivors' pursuit of justice (theguardian.com)

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Lawsuit says Mayo Clinic rushed AI rollout put patient care and privacy at risk (mprnews.org)

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Time Doesn't Trickle Down Either (thenoosphere.substack.com)

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The Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed "Zero" Kids (newrepublic.com)

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How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (pluralistic.net)

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Apple's Robo-Repo (pluralistic.net)

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Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador (dropsitenews.com)

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Justice Department Lawyers Reportedly Afraid to Put Things in Writing (newrepublic.com)

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Employee Engagement Remains Flat as AI Adoption Accelerates (gallup.com)

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Meta's New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending (wired.com)

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AI Solipsists and AI Cynics (pluralistic.net)

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DOJ Says Government Can Use TikTok Again Because 'Owned' No Longer Means 'Owned' (techdirt.com)

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Stop Using Media Bias/Fact Check in Research (arxiv.org)

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Pete Hegseth's Pentagon secrecy push threatens access to unclassified records (ms.now)

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California's Privacy Obstacle Course (pluralistic.net)

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4th Circuit: Border Agents Can Search Your Phone by Hand, No Suspicion Required (eff.org)

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DOJ Now Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases to Keep ICE Detainees Locked Up (techdirt.com)

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The Legal Risks That Chill Good-Faith Security Research (lawfaremedia.org)

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Speeding incurs substantial environmental costs for negligible time savings (nature.com)

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Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (mongabay.com)

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CJEU Ruling on Platform Liability Could Damage Freedom of Expression (eff.org)

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Canada's promises to capture carbon span almost 20 years, with little gains (thenarwhal.ca)

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FBI Forced to Reveal New Details on How It Redacted Epstein Files (newrepublic.com)

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Protect Your Privacy with California's Drop Tool (eff.org)

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Dealing with Dickovers (pluralistic.net)

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Stealth Crawlers Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be (eff.org)

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Ontario prison AI assigns black prisoners harsher living conditions (breachmedia.ca)

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How the Watch Dogs Games Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues (eff.org)

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Election denial activists briefed at White House ahead of primetime speech (ms.now)

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FBI Considers Using AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots (propublica.org)

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Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Privacy Transparency Reports (eff.org)

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Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes with Little Justification (propublica.org)

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German Court Orders Deletion of Footage Exposing Pig Gas Chambers (veganhorizon.substack.com)

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Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers (knightcolumbia.org)

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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts from Paramount as It Sought Billion-Dollar Deals (propublica.org)

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European Court: Apple Can Not Shirk Off Its Interoperability Requirements (eff.org)

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Don't Repeat NY's 3D Printing Blunder (eff.org)

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Cyberstalkers Are Exploiting Chrome Sync to Spy on Victims (certosoftware.com)