Senators push back against the expanding use of facial recognition technology by TSA at the airport. nytimes.com/2024/05/07/us/…

one NYT Pulitzer winner (Hannah Dreier) just accepted her award after giving her 6-week-old infant a kiss; another (@katieengelhart) said she was assigned her winning story while 8 months pregnant. always blown away by the working moms in this building but especially today!

Letter from US senators: only five of 14 automakers require police to have a warrant before requesting user data, and only Tesla tells users about such requests (Kashmir Hill / New York Times)

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The increased technological sophistication of cars has lawmakers and regulators concerned.

A rundown, starting w/most recent inquiry: Senators Wyden & Markey want FTC to investigate what automakers tell police about where our cars have been.

nytimes.com/2024/04/30/tec…

NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO.

We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and share the wealth with staff.

Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/bus…

Finally something fun on the internet again

This has to be the best acquisitional inside joke of all time.

Insurance data broker that was getting driving behavior from automakers (including mine) now says 'Verisk no longer provides Driving Behavior Data History Reports to insurers.'

Has a chart of when it stopped getting data from G.M., Honda, & Hyundai.

fcra.verisk.com/#/

“G.M. doesn’t just want dealers selling cars; it wants them selling connected cars.”

As Natasha Tusikov & I argue in our book, The New Knowledge, a knowledge-driven society repurposes *everything* toward data collection. Usually w/ the bad results seen here.
nytimes.com/2024/04/23/tec…

If you've been wondering 'hey, how come all these people protesting outside are still wearing masks,' I can explain.

Might be an obvious Q/A but I'd never seen the answer!
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A great David Weigel story on a new phenomenon in plain sight: masked protesters semafor.com/article/04/23/…

NEW: What’s driving the rise of the masked Israel-Gaza protestor?

It’s a mix, David Weigel reports: COVID caution on the left, fear of doxxing, and a key change to the law

semafor.com/article/04/23/…

My latest is well summarized by the Verge's transportation expert, Andrew J. Hawkins 🚇🚌🚲🛴.

nytimes.com/2024/04/23/tec…

New from 404 Media: we found a service called 'ReplyGuy', an AI that automatically plugs your product on Reddit. Shows that Reddit, basically the last social platform that heavily emphasizes human interaction, may also be soon overrun with AI garbage 404media.co/ai-is-poisonin…

Not only has GM sold driving data to insurers without telling users, but a GM app 'bug' meant users who were enrolled in Smart Driver were told they weren't (Kashmir Hill / New York Times)

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This is a pretty stunning follow-up to the reporter’s own prior article about tracking of driving trips. Car companies (in this case, GM) tracking people’s driving without consent, supposedly due to a bug.

Matt sent me down a rabbit hole with this link and here is the follow-up if you are also interested: tiktok.com/@_glizard_/vid…

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.

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they got advanced stats for babies now