EFF, ACLU SoCal & ACLU of Northern CA demand that 71 police agencies in 22 California counties immediately stop sharing automated license plate reader data with out-of-state law enforcement agencies, which puts abortion seekers & providers at risk.
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It’s about 1,500 miles from Austin to Sacramento, but Texas and California lawmakers are a million miles apart on how to treat private data related to reproductive health, EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof and Hayley Tsukayama wrote for Ms. Magazine. msmagazine.com/2023/05/05/tex…

“The result will be a chilling effect on speech and a looming threat of litigation that can be used to silence those who seek to give women truthful information about their reproductive options,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told Rolling Stone. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

If you work in tech, today is a good day to read this blog post about what you can do to protect digital rights in a post-Roe world: eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

So excited for Chris Morten and the incredibly lucky students at Columbia Law School 🎉

Wow. Just... wow. Rep. Katie Porter is so unbelievably good at this.

Woah, woah, WOAH. An official FTC blog post by a staff attorney noting that 'The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. That would include the sale or use of – for example – racially biased algorithms.' ftc.gov/news-events/bl…

🚨Another black box algorithm is being pried open 🚨

Judges have ruled that the makers of a “probablistic genotyping” DNA analysis program used in more than 850 criminal cases must hand over their source code.

Lauren Kirchner reports:
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Never forget that the inventors of insulin thought profiting off of it would be unethical and sold the patent for a single dollar.

Facebook is trying to shut down a political ad transparency tool *wait for it* in the run up to one of the most consequential elections in US history. The tool, built by NYU researchers, is relied on by dozens of local journalists and civil society groups. wsj.com/articles/faceb…

Law students interested in First Amendment issues! Applications are now open for the Summer Legal Internship position with Knight First Amendment Institute. Want to work with us this summer? More details here: knightcolumbia.org/content/summer…

Great to hear about UT Austin School of Journalism and Media & the Center for Media Engagement’s awesome work to better understand how disinformation is spread through emerging technologies. Systematic testing & empirical research is key to shaping effective laws/policies. Thanks @samuelwoolley!

Jennifer Pinsof me ➡️ [email protected] Amanda Levendowski Megan Graham @HBWHBWHBW Lindsey Barrett 'From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. . . . Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion . . . , I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.' law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-…

Great responses so far! Thanks for everyone who contributed. Keep them coming!

Jennifer Pinsof Justice Marshall's dissent in McCleskey v. Kemp where he accuses the majority of fearing too much justice. 481 U.S. at 339. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/…