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This site has been archived and will not be updated further. Jonathan Zittrain’s new personal website is accessible at https://blogs.harvard.edu/jzwrites/

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  • A novel way of defending against mass uses of our data
    • AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
  • Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?
    • I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics.  This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: As you can see, most people said yes.  I count myself ...

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About 9 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

Here's the video of the conversation about content moderation at Facebook: youtu.be/lWkhFB0f2tw?t=…. I was struck by the expressed ideal of auto-monitoring for, and enforcing against, terms of service violations even in private messaging and closed groups. Very 2019. twitter.com/Harvard/status…

About 10 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

I pulled together some ideas on disinformation, AI, and tech industry consolidation with a lecture at @columbiajourn: "The Food is Bad, And the Portions Are Big: What to Do About Today's Social Media Platforms." Video here: youtu.be/asENunfEKYY?t=…

About 13 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

A great start, and one you've had a huge hand in shaping too. Eager to see these new protections versioned up and working their Schoolhouse Rock way through the lawmaking process. twitter.com/Klonick/status…

About a day ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

This piece nicely lays out why "anonymous location sharing" is a lie. If they share data via apps at all, phones should default to share approximate locations (e.g., census tract) instead of to-the-meter, and only with app in use. Such apps, and carriers, should be fiduciaries. twitter.com/RidT/status/10…

About 4 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

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