Jeffrey Vagle

@jvagle
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Law prof studying privacy, cybersecurity law, and the ethics of technology.
When a political party sees the teaching of things like self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, social awareness, and relationship building to children as a threat, it says quite a bit about that party’s overall worldview. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/florida-rejected-textbooks.html?referringSource=articleShare
A Look at the Textbooks Rejected by the Florida Department of Education

The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why.

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Every vote in the U.S. should have a paper trail, and that paper trail needs to be audited. https://www.eff.org/if-it-doesnt-have-paper-backups-and-automatic-audits-its-not-election-security
If It Doesn't Have Paper Backups and Automatic Audits, It's Not an Election Security Bill

Right now, the U.S. Senate is debating an issue that’s critical to our democratic future: secure elections. Hacking attacks were used to try to undermine the 2016 U.S. election, and in recent years, elections in Latin America and Ukraine were also subject to cyber attacks.It only makes sense...

In a landmark decision, the Seventh Circuit court has ruled that government access of smart meter data constitutes a “search”—and residents have a reasonable expectation of privacy in it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/win-landmark-seventh-circuit-decision-says-fourth-amendment-applies-smart-meter
Win! Landmark Seventh Circuit Decision Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Smart Meter Data

The Seventh Circuit just handed down a landmark opinion, ruling 3-0 that the Fourth Amendment protects energy-consumption data collected by smart meters. Smart meters collect energy usage data at high frequencies—typically every 5, 15, or 30 minutes—and therefore know exactly how much electricity...

Man, I’d really love for the Mastodon platform to take hold, at the very least with the law & tech community.
You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.
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