
Lauren Weinstein's Blog
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Lauren Weinstein's commentary on technology, AI, privacy, internet policy, civil liberties, and society.
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A Proposal for "Enhanced Recovery Services" for Locked Out Google Accounts #Tech #Privacy #Security
An Example of a Very Sad Google Account Recovery Failure -- and How It Affects Real People #Tech #Privacy #AI
Potentially Serious Issues with Google's Announced Inactive Accounts Deletion Policy #Tech #Privacy #AI
How Google Broke Chrome Bookmarks Sync #Tech #Privacy #OpenSource
Big Tech Needs to Vastly Improve Their Public Communications -- or Potentially Face a Political Train Wreck Over AI (and More) #Tech #AI #Policy
The "AI Crisis": Who Is Responsible? #AI #Ethics #Responsibility
State and Federal Internet ID Age Requirements Are Hell-Bent on Turning the Internet Into a Chinese-Style Internet Nightmare #Privacy #Internet #Policy
Giving Creators and Websites Control Over Generative AI #AI #Tech #Privacy
2023 and Social Media's Winds of Change #Tech #SocialMedia #Future
Social Media Is Probably Doomed #Tech #SocialMedia #Future
How to Fix Google's Gmail Political Spam Bypass Plan #Tech #Privacy #Policy
Google's Horrible Plan to Flood Your Gmail with Political Garbage #Tech #Privacy #Politics
My Thoughts About Google's New Blog Post Regarding Health-Related Data Privacy #Tech #Privacy #HealthTech
Social Media Sites Should Be Required to ID Many Users #Privacy #Policy #Internet
Internet Users' Safety in a Post-Roe World #Privacy #Tech #Society
Big Tech and the Internet Are Not Our Enemies #Tech #Internet #Society
How to Better Solve YouTube's "Dislike Count" Problem #Tech #AI #Privacy
Apple Backdoors Itself #Tech #Privacy #Security
Keep Governments Away from Social Media "Misinformation Control" #Privacy #InternetPolicy #Misinformation
We Have Met the Ransomware Enemy, and It Is (Partly) Us! #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Tech
DeJoy Is Hell-Bent on Wrecking the Postal Service -- and Maybe Your Life #Politics #USPS #Society
How the "News Link Wars" Could Wreck the Web #Tech #Internet #Policy
The Big Lie About "Cancel Culture" and Demands to Change Section 230 #Tech #Policy #Society
The Challenges of Moderating User Content on the Internet (and a Bit of History) #Tech #Internet #Policy
The Right's (and Left's) Insane Internet Content Power Grab (repost with new introduction) #Politics #Internet #Policy
Recommendation: Do Not Install or Use Centralized Server Coronavirus (COVID-19) Contact Tracing Apps #Privacy #Security #AI
Coronavirus Reactions Creating Major Internet Security Risks #CyberSecurity #Internet #Privacy
Iowa Screams: Don't Trust High-Tech Elections! #Tech #Privacy #Elections
How Some Software Designers Don't Seem to Care About the Elderly #Tech #Accessibility #Society
The Right's (and Left's) Insane Internet Content Power Grab #Politics #Internet #FreeSpeech
Another Breach: What Capital One Could Have Learned from Google's "BeyondCorp" #Tech #Security #Privacy
Earthquakes vs. Darth Vader #Tech #AI #Privacy
YouTube's Public Videos Dilemma #Tech #AI #Privacy
A Major New Privacy-Positive Move by Google #Privacy #Tech #Google
Could AI Help Prevent Mass Shootings? #AI #Society #Technology
Pressuring Google's AI Advisory Panel to Wear a Halo Is Very Dangerous #AI #Tech #Ethics
Don't Blame YouTube and Facebook for Hate Speech Horrors #Tech #AI #Society
As Google's YouTube Battles Evil, YouTube Creators Are at a Crossroads #Tech #AI #Privacy
Another Positive Move by YouTube: No More General "Conspiracy Theory" Suggestions #Tech #AI #Privacy
Another Massive Google User Trust Failure, As They Kill Louisville Fiber on Short Notice #Tech #Privacy #Internet