Loved doing this live show on phone addiction and my dumbphone experiment with Mina Kim 김미나.

I’m back to my smartphone now but rather than 5-6+ hours of usage per day, I’m down to around 2. The detox worked for me.

kqed.org/forum/20101019…

they got advanced stats for babies now

Interesting story on the ever-asked question about why we haven't managed to get a federal privacy law yet.

(But now maybe we will with the recently introduced ARPA. Someone shake a Magic 8 ball to find out for sure.)

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Looking forward to reading this one.

It’s cliche at this point to say “data is the new oil” but my brain was screaming it as I read this astoundingly well-reported piece on OpenAI, Google and Meta looking between the internet’s couch cushions and everywhere else to find new training material. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train A.I. Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, Nico Grant and I undercover the race for data: nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

Pittsburgh tweeps, I'll be in town for a book talk on Monday night, April 15.

Free registration here: eventbrite.com/e/ethics-and-a…

Great line-up of experts, lawyers, academics and journalists chatting AI today in Washington, D.C. (including me).

law.fsu.edu/academics/inst…

This week, Colorado became the first state in the U.S. to pass specific privacy rights for brain data.

The state senate unanimously amending the state privacy law to add 'neural data.'

ICYMI, I wrote about this & similar efforts across the USA:

context.news/ai/brain-priva…

Here’s Sheera Frenkel reporting from Israel on how facial recognition technology is being deployed in Gaza

nytimes.com/2024/03/27/tec…

Got a note from GM’s spokeswoman today: as of yesterday, the company stopped sharing data for “Smart Drivers” with LexisNexis and Verisk.

According to an internal document I saw, that means at least 8 million people’s data now not being shared.

nytimes.com/2024/03/22/tec…

It begins. First federal lawsuit against G.M. and LexisNexis Risk Solutions for unfair and deceptive data collection was filed by a Cadillac owner in Florida yesterday. nytimes.com/2024/03/14/tec…

'Do I want to live in a society where people can be identified secretly and at a distance by the government? I do not, and I think I am not alone in that.'

- Alvaro Bedoya in Ronald Bailey's review of Kashmir Hill's new book 'Your Face Belongs to Us'

reason.com/2024/01/23/bey…

Want to catch me this month talking about facial recognition and all things privacy?

March 20: I'll be at UVA Law School chatting w/ Danielle Citron.

March 26: Minnesota Law with William McGeveran.

Deets here: kashmirhill.com/events

After years of concern about indoor surveillance cameras, Airbnb formally banned them this week. Wonder what especially creepy thing happened to prompt this. nytimes.com/2024/03/12/bus…