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I'm no longer active on Twitter/X. Find me at Bluesky @djweitzner.bsky.social or LinkedIn. Better yet, in person. Sorry to see this once-engaging platform turned into a personal political megaphone of its owner. That's his right, but it's only 'social' in the narrowest sense.
Great thread on threats to the security of all Internet comms from misguided police demands. As usual @JuliaAngwin nails it. Her NYT piece "If law enforcement has reason to suspect us, they should get a search warrant," not leave all users open to attack. nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opini…
A luminary lineup of crypto & infosec experts including @rossjanderson @mattblaze @WhitfieldDiffie @matthew_d_green @schneierblog @djweitzner successfully argued that there was no way to keep safe a “master key” that could unlock all encryption. /3
cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/d…
Excited about this new work on privacy: goal is to bring real traceability and accountability to the use of personal financial data.
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I'm looking forward to joining my buddy @schneierblog at @BelferCenter tomorrow for this talk in cybersecurity risk pricing.
📅3/29 @ 12pm
📍Hybrid seminar
AI Cyber Lunch w/ @MIT's @djweitzner
"Black Hat, White Hat, Green Eyeshades: Improving Cybersecurity through Risk Pricing Models"
@BelferCenter
Join us in person or online:
bit.ly/3ZvamKd
Important thread on 230 from its main coauthor @RonWyden and advocates @CenDemTech Emma Llonso and @EFF
Sen. @RonWyden: "Chris Cox and I wrote Section 230 with the following idea: the person who *created* the content is liable for it. Quaint idea, I know."
Continues: "Its baffling that the conversation is 'Big Tech'. 230 protects everyone, and the startups need it especially."
Danny Weitzner retweeted
Love these photos, @JonahSeiger! As a @SenatorLeahy alum now lucky enough to lead @CenDemTech, I couldn't be more grateful for his legacy fighting for privacy & human rights
An amazing career @SenatorLeahy: *48* years & *8 terms*. Setting the Internet policy tone on free speech, privacy, surveillance & insisting on integration of rule of law, trust in individual responsibility & innovation. @JerryBerman @DeirdreMulligan @JonahSeiger @CenDemTech
As @SenatorLeahy closes the final days of his remarkable tenure as U.S. Senator, @CenDemTech is taking a moment to thank him – for being an enduring ally in some of the most important tech policy debates of our time, since the beginning of CDT’s nearly three decade existence.👏👏
And he celebrated the victory in ACLU v Reno, declaring "Giving full-force to the First Amendment on-line is a victory for the First Amendment, for American technology, and for democracy." Let's hope we can remember this
Above all he is a model of principled, humble visionary leadership. In his farewell speech he left us with a challenge to strengthen our gov't and"rebuild a Senate defined not by sounds bites but by a believe in the strength of women and men and history." Thank you @SenatorLeahy!
Big congrats and thanks to you, @robinberjon, and @mnot Koichi Moriyama, David Singer, Eric Siow,
@LeonieWatson & Hongru (Judy) Zhu. As an alum of the @w3c team, I'm so grateful for all who have stepped up to serve and am excited to see this important next phase of the Web.
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This is fantastic news for @WHOSTP the @WhiteHouse and the whole country. Such a distinguished scientist and leader adding to an already fantastic team!
Today’s historic bipartisan confirmation of Dr. Arati Prabhakar as Director of @WHOSTP is a testament to her sterling track record of leadership and innovation stewardship. We’re thrilled to welcome her to OSTP and begin a bright new chapter! My statement: whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upd…
Our extraordinarily insightful CS graduate students on 'crypto' -- 'silly' 'waste of time' 'glad friends made money' 'waste of earth's resources' @MIT_CSAIL youtube.com/watch?v=snYalUMN…
Happening right now - please feel free to join!
Looking forward to participating next Friday in a @napawash panel on Technology Policy and the NAPA Grand Challenges with @jahendler @BobbieStempfley @djweitzner
napawash.org/events/technolo…
Exciting about this panel discussion of leading tech policy questions. Thanks to @napawash for hosting and @jahendler for organizing!
Looking forward to participating next Friday in a @napawash panel on Technology Policy and the NAPA Grand Challenges with @jahendler @BobbieStempfley @djweitzner
napawash.org/events/technolo…
Bravo @random_walker and @schneierblog. While there are specific cases where I think public ledgers offer unique benefits for accountability (ie work with @GoldwasserShafi et al on preventing unwarranted surveillance usenix.org/system/files/conf…) the rest is way oversold.
I agree with Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) that blockchain has so far proven useless. Worse, it's proven a costly distraction to people and communities who are trying to solve real problems. schneier.com/blog/archives/2…
So excited to see all what this amazing team and its inspired leader, Commissioner Bedoya, will do for the country and the world!
Online free speech matters! To combat Putin, “Ukraine needs Javelin [missiles] and Russians need Internet,” Mikhail Klimarev said. (Internet Protection Society, pro-Navalny NGO)
WaPo:How millions of Russians are tearing holes in the Digital Iron Curtain washingtonpost.com/world/202…
This is a great piece of work showing the fragility of ML algorithms, how badly they can fail in dynamic healthcare settings (ie - most of them) & the need for more transparency & ongoing scrutiny of ML tools. Kudos to @YalaTweets @caseymross and the rest of the team @AIHealthMIT
A STAT investigation done in collaboration with @MIT
AI gone astray: How subtle shifts in patient data send popular algorithms reeling, undermining patient safety
Read the story here: buff.ly/3K7of9R
