An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most impo…
Permanent record
"In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on Earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the account of a bright young man who grew up online - a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience."--Jacket
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
Fact-Checking False Claims about our Gender Identity Coverage | The New York Times Company
A recent post from Trans News Network included numerous falsehoods about New York Times stories on gender identity and maligned some of the journalists involved in the work. Our coverage is guided by…
Upload government papers to go online? That’s our terrifying future | Aliya Bhatia
Requirement to upload documents for the purpose of ‘age verification’ is coming to platforms near you
Laura Luebbert, PhD on Twitter / X
MVS has dismissed our findings as "typographical errors and minor oversights," accused Lior and me of being "unprofessional," and called any allegations "totally bizarre." For context, I am showing four examples of duplicated data as described in our arxiv manuscript (Fig 3 & 4). pic.twitter.com/ZuTX6ivBGM— Laura Luebbert, PhD (@NeuroLuebbert) July 11, 2024
Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN
A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to before. Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.
Could Taylor Swift Have Written “F— the Patriarchy” a Decade Ago?
A history lesson behind the now-infamous keychain.
Debunking every Anti Transgender Argument Part 1: Trans Women in Women's Sport
The Year States Chose Surveillance Over Safety: 2025 in Review
2025 was the year age verification went from a fringe policy experiment to a sweeping reality across the United States. Half of the U.S. now mandates age verification for accessing adult content or
DOGE Dunces, Depositions, DC Cops and Scoop Ethics (Half the Answer #73, with Marisa Kabas)
DC cops assisted the DOGE boys in breaking into the United States Institute of Peace office in March 2025—and now journalist Marisa Kabas of the Handbasket has obtained their body cam footage from that day. She tells Trent and Caitlin how she did it, and they discuss the total
Laws of Identity
When digital identity ceases to be a pain in the ass, we can thank Kim Cameron and his Seven Laws of Identity, which he wrote in 2004, formally published in early 2005, and gently explained and put…
Calling for Ethical AI that Empowers Women and Protects Human Dignity
30 October 2024: Women4Ethical AI platform
It's all a blur
If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring an image is not a good way of redacting its contents.
AI Age Checks Are Here—And They’re Not Fair To Everyone
Research shows that AI age checks misclassify women & Black people as older, raising concerns over bias, safety, and future workplace use.
Age verification is coming for the internet — and it’s already raising red flags
Legislative efforts to age-gate parts of the internet are gaining traction. Some experts warn of compliance complications and data security breaches.
