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CEO & Founder, . Co-author, Super Thinking. Co-author, Traction.

Valley Forge, PA
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    Jun 24

    In January, in the first known case of its kind, a man in Michigan was arrested for a crime he did not commit due to a flawed algorithmic facial recognition match. I told his story here:

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    Jun 24

    Wrongly accused because of an algorithm. Critical reporting by .

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  3. Jun 16

    Later in the same report: "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials reduces the number of network requests by 95% and the download weight by 80%."

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  4. Jun 16

    This illustrates the big difference between tracker blocking and ad blocking. DuckDuckGo doesn't try to block ads specifically; instead we block all the hidden tracking we can find, and some is ad-related and some is not (e.g., analytics, social, etc.). End result: more blocking.

    5/ Loading a WCPO news article uses 31s of CPU time. With Privacy Essentials installed, this goes down to just 1.6s.
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    Jun 10

    "Our old neighbor came in and said, 'There’s a black man stealing your van. He’s behind the wheel right now.' I paused a minute and realized he was referring to Merlin. Bells went off." OH MY GOD THIS STORY

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  6. Jun 8

    Was great to talk to Matt about search preference menus and Do Not Track, and how if done right, could give power back to consumers.

    1/ New long read from me. In 2018, Google was fined €4 billion for abusing Android to strengthen its search business. Years later, not much has changed and rivals say Google’s response is deeply flawed. I spent time (remotely) with /
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    Jun 8

    Google got rich from your data. DuckDuckGo is fighting back

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    Jun 2

    Join me in supporting Split a donation between 50+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers via

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    Jun 6

    "Affirming that black lives matter on Instagram is one thing, but challenging millions of your followers to support black people engaging in civil disobedience is a far bolder stance." on the significance of the rise in bail-fund donations:

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    Jun 4

    As DOJ pushes forward on bringing antitrust charges against Google, its investigators are taking a close look at what the company is doing in Europe with a search choice menu. Story w/

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    Jun 3

    New article from at about how to safely protect your digital privacy while also exercising your 1st Amendment right to assemble and protest

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    Jun 3

    The statue represented bigotry, hatred, and oppression for too many people, for too long. It is finally gone.

    Crew of five workers surround statue at night.
    Front of Municipal Services Building without statue at night.
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  13. Jun 2

    This episode is a great explainer of this failed standard: And this article about its consequences (stating only 35 convictions since 2005 despite about 1,000 fatalities at the hands of police yearly):

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  14. Jun 2

    Another thing Congress could do that might help: overturn the 1989 Supreme Court decision (Graham v. Connor) that makes it so hard to convict police for use of excessive force, crafting in its place a new legal standard that makes convictions happen when they should.

    But supposing for a second that reality-based training really is a high-leverage reform, Congress could provide unlimited funds for such programs and also tie federal funding to states to mandatory implementation across all PDs within 12 months.
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  15. Jun 2

    65% of reported feeling “Surprised”, “Misled,” “Confused,” or “Vulnerable” upon learning about the limitations of Private Browsing.

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  16. Jun 2

    "The complaint focuses largely on what the company does to collect and track online activity when users surf the web in private browsing mode." Consistent with our study showing 76% cannot identify the privacy benefits (or lack thereof) it provides.

    Google is sued for violating user privacy. This time, the argument is that Google has run afoul of the Federal Wiretap Act
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  17. Jun 2

    All COVID apps should be open source.

    The Italian COVID Contact Tracing app is now developed in open source
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    Jun 2

    Google is sued for violating user privacy. This time, the argument is that Google has run afoul of the Federal Wiretap Act

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    Jun 2

    There are 1,000+ developers, lawyers and others in this slack volunteering their time to gather and publish policing and court data from across US jurisdictions, whether through , FOIA, or web scraping.

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  20. Jun 2

    But supposing for a second that reality-based training really is a high-leverage reform, Congress could provide unlimited funds for such programs and also tie federal funding to states to mandatory implementation across all PDs within 12 months.

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