Thanks Daniel J. Solove for responding to my critique of what I call his “big-tent” approach to privacy. The response comes in a broader response to a recent essay by María Paula Ángel & Ryan Calo. (As Dan notes, my argument in Pure Privacy is “a close cousin to Angel and Calo’s critique.”)

Ryan Calo of the Information School & UW School of Law on a potential TikTok ban:

'I find this especially implausible in light of TikTok's own good faith effort — Project Texas — to address the government's stated fears' - Ryan Calo told NPR. npr.org/2024/05/14/125…

Pretty much every expert NPR spoke to, including me, doesn’t see this TikTok ban surviving a constitutional challenge. npr.org/2024/05/14/125…

Interesting reads, María Paula Ángel and Ryan Calo 'critique of privacy as social taxonomy' and Daniel J. Solove's response 'against privacy essentialism':
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...as a European, I stay out of this infight :p

The Tech Policy Lab warned specifically that solar storms could disrupt agricultural tech. techpolicylab.uw.edu/news/ways-to-g… Exactly that happened this week. theverge.com/2024/5/12/2415… Food policy is tech policy.

Birdwatch was supposed to help readers contextualize misinformation. Now it’s rebutting a litigation position? TikTok will functionally be illegal in the United States. Just read the statute. And what’s being challenged as unconstitutional is the ban.

Today we filed a petition in federal court seeking to overturn the unconstitutional TikTok ban. Read our petition here: newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/court-fi…

The first report from the Pew-Knight Initiative underscores how urgent it is for journalism and civil society orgs to communicate what’s at stake for communities in the sustainability crisis facing local news. #pressforward

Finally, a TikTok challenge we can all get behind 😉 apnews.com/article/tiktok…

Happy International Koala Day for all who celebrate it 🐨

What is cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? This event brings together experts in computer science, law, adversarial machine learning, and tech advocacy from University of Washington and EFF.

supporters.eff.org/civicrm/event/…

EU non-discrimination law for non-lawyers arxiv.org/abs/2404.08519

Chinese court rules on its first AI voice rights case globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

TikTok’s not at the root of U.S. privacy problems. Outlawing it is no solution, says Willmary 👸🏾, U.S. Policy Analyst at Access Now, a global human rights organization that defends and extends the digital rights of people at risk around the world.
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I can’t believe Biden signed this TikTok law. 😔 If there’s going to be bipartisan consensus to ignore a Constitutional Amendment, how about the Second?

I am co-organizing an incredible workshop about using LLMs for well-being in the context of HRI 🔥 more info below 👇
📢 Keynote speakers: Ryan Calo, Jesse Thomason, Emily S. Cross
🌴 Hosted at IEEE RO-MAN in beautiful Pasadena, California
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“But they are useless. They can only give you answers.” Picasso, 1964, on computers