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EFF welcomes our new Executive Director Nicole Ozer!

Nicole has long been a partner of EFF’s in the fight to defend civil liberties in the digital world. She’s basically as close to EFF “family” as someone can be without actually having worked here — until today! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/welcome-new-eff-executive-director-nicole-ozer

Welcome New EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer

EFF welcomes our new Executive Director Nicole Ozer today! Nicole is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech who previously served as the inaugural executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law San Francisco. From 2004-2025, she was founding director of the Technology and Civil Liberties Program at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

grumpychestnut 1d ago

kottke.org 1d ago

“Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.” And the bot just went ahead and did it. https://404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404 Media

grumpychestnut 1d ago

Fun fact: Smoke detectors will only ever start chirping due to low battery power between the hours of 1am and 4am, regardless of the timezone that you’re in. This will never happen during the daytime. Exclusively between 1am and 4am. #themoreyouknow

grumpychestnut 5d ago

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Hannah Clover 5d ago

@catsalad https://www.lightroastcomics.com/comics/links-final-form

Lightroast Comics | Link's Final Form

Link's Final Form

grumpychestnut 5d ago

BedastGPT 5d ago

Can we stop calling these surveillance systems ALPR?

It's minimizing what they do, how they work, what data they collect, and the analysis they are capable of performing.

They are AI augmented surveillance that happens to support reading license plates. But also facial recognition, behavior analysis, location tracking, audio analysis, and who knows what else.

#Surveillance #Privacy #Flock #AI #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusGood

grumpychestnut May 22

Infrogmation May 5

No.

#Internet

grumpychestnut May 22

Lady Laura

May 21

By Bashir Sultani

#Art

grumpychestnut May 22

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xssfox (crossy)May 21

At this point you can probably just email any tech company and ask for their $ENV

grumpychestnut May 20

The only jobs that can ever truly be replaced with #ai are those of politicians and executives.

grumpychestnut May 8

Tarah Wheeler May 8

@letsencrypt is in the middle of an active incident. Issuance of new certs has ceased. Heads up. https://letsencrypt.status.io/

Let's Encrypt Status

Support for Let's Encrypt services is community-based and information on current status and outages can be found at: https://community.letsencrypt.org