Currently: White House Office of Management and Budget, tech and cybersecurity policy.
Formerly: 18F at GSA, Chrome Security, TechCongress in the Senate, and the Sunlight Foundation.
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@Annalee it's unfortunate that it also takes away the best example of the different Android and iOS architectures. Android's respects the user more by allowing you to use alternate SMS apps that supports Signal's ability to do a combined inbox.
This feature has never been present in the iOS version (which to be fair, probably gives them more confidence to remove it on Android).
"Information about people’s movements, collected via apps on their phones, is regularly sold by data brokers."
This is one of the things that gets me the angriest. Society never had a chance to agree to this, to even discuss this, until it was too late.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/technology/period-tracker-privacy-abortion.html
NICHE DREAM JOB ALERT!
The General Services Administration (which houses
18F, Login.gov, Cloud.gov, and many more fascinating technology things) is hiring a senior executive counsel to oversee technology law across the agency:
<p>The <a href="http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/100000">General Services Administration</a> (GSA) is interested in attracting the best talent for our diverse cadre of Senior Executive Service (SES) members from within GSA, the Federal government and the private sector. We have streamlined our recruitment process for this position which will require you to submit specific documents in order to apply for this position. For complete instructions on the content and format of your application package please see the "Required Documents" section below.</p>
To celebrate the DOTGOV Online Trust in Government Act of 2019, a friend put together a list of bills with recursive acronyms:
GSE Subsidy Elimination Act
OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability Act
TAA for Automation Act
GAO Access and Oversight Act
DEA Enforcement and Authority Act
GPS Protection & Safety Act
MRSA Research and Study Act
FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act
FDA Device Accountability Act
EPA Pays Act
I'm moving! After a wonderful 5½ years in San Francisco, I'm going to New York City, around the end of this month.
I'll be doing the Summer 2 batch at Recurse Center, starting July 5. If you're in the city, hit me up! (And please help me find a place.)
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