Friday afternoon is the best time to share things, right? Well, when it's a new version of the guide to legal risk for security research and hacker summer camp starts next week...maybe!
Sunoo Park and I are proud to share an updated version of our guide to legal risk for security researchers! https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/2024/08/02/clinic-publishes-update-to-security-researchers-guide-to-legal-risk/
as a passionate supporter of free speech, i'm going to sue a publisher and author to force them to take down an article i didn't like
NEW: I filed my first amicus brief!
I worked with my legal team, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and CPCS (the state's public defender office) on a brief that asks the state's Supreme Judicial Court to reject the Bristol County DA's sweeping arguments for police secrecy in an important public records lawsuit.
Read about our brief, and the four other amicus briefs submitted to the court, here:
https://andrewqmr.substack.com/p/mack-v-bristol-da-amicus-briefs
The Voting Rights Act is like the SCOTUS Code of Ethics. You don't need enforcement. People are nice and will just voluntarily comply!
Just saw the news about the 8th Circuit VRA decision. Fuck us for wanting some form of public participation in our democracy, right?
Making phone calls free is an important and positive development.
Prison profiteering phone companies gouge loved ones of people in prison for collect calls, people often least able to pay. Free calls keeps families intact, facilitates eventual reentry, and in the end increases public safety.
Massachusetts becomes fifth state in nation to make prison calls free | GBH
Congratulations to my dear friend Dr. Joy Buolamwini for writing a national best seller as a first author! If you haven't read Unmasking AI yet, I suggest you get your copy now 👇🏽
Good news for Texans (for now):
“We did it.
We just defeated Greg Abbott's voucher scam.
The People’s House has spoken. I’m so proud of the bipartisan coalition in the Texas House that defended our schools and our kids.”
-TX ST Rep James Talarico
Ben Waber
Kendra Albert
Molly White
Andrew Quemere
Lawprofblawg
[David Nathanson has moved]
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
evacide
Kim Perales