Steve Washington

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Tech/services startups founder; M&A/business lawyer; public policy enthusiast; reader and analyst at heart. Unexpected tech nerd. #bicyclist #sailing #cooking #tech #news #dogwhisperer Roots: 🇺🇸+🇪🇪!
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I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪

The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.

No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.

My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.

Yours shouldn't either.

#Privacy #Cookies #PrivacyLaw

If all the people who work at airports told you, "don't fly that airline," I hope you would listen.

When all the musicians who have the freedom to be honest tell you, "don't use Spotify," you might consider other options for listening to music.

A Chinese immigrant has died in ICE custody.

He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position.

Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years.

Chaofeng Ge did not deserve this

No one deserves this

His family are fighting for answers

One thing is clear… these camps must be shut down

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee-death-family-questions-hands-feet-tied-11066992

#uspol #abolishice #fascism #dhs

Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney

The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

Newsweek
Proton Mail suspended the account of a journalist writing for the hacker zine Phrack at the request of a cybersecurity agency, only reinstating the account after public outcry https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/
Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.

The Intercept

“Unlike the right, the left is not prone to ascribing to an entire group the terrible acts of a single person. That does make us very different people, who must now constantly strive to keep the lid from blowing off the national pot..
And forgive me if I no longer fully trust the findings of a captive FBI. This is the high price of allowing our intelligence services and our Justice Department to so blindly serve the White House.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/politicizing-charlie?r=1uo829&utm_medium=ios

Politicizing Charlie

The right is politicizing Charlie Kirk’s killing and supercharging anger at the left.

The Status Kuo
The cowardly and despicable attempt by the Trump admin to snatch migrant children from their beds and deport them in the middle of the night would've succeeded if it hadn't been for the swift actions of legal advocates and the courts: https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/trump-tried-to-deport-dozens-of-frightened
Trump Tried To Deport Dozens Of Frightened Guatemalan Kids in the Dead of Night. Quick-Acting Legal Advocates Stopped Him

This cowardly and despicable attempt to snatch kids from their beds and deport them in the middle of the night would've succeeded if it hadn't been for the swift actions of advocates and the courts.

Combating Nativist Narratives

Hey, all those worries privacy advocates have had about Stingray (fake cell phone data collection devices) being abused? GUESS WHAT.

Forbes: How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-peoples-phones/

#privacy #cybersecurity #stingray #fascism #ice #bigbrother

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

Forbes
This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.
Many will die. In Kenya alone, at least 40,000 health care workers will lose their jobs, U.S.A.I.D. officials say.The US also funds two large refugee camps that house 700,000 people from at least 19 countries. Ethiopia health has fired 5,000 health care professionals recruited under American funding.
“We are in disbelief,” said Medhanye Alem of the Center for Victims of Torture, which treats survivors at 9 centers in Ethiopia, all now closed. #Giftlink https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/world/africa/usaid-africa-trump-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU4.ljYW.wydDr6uJtYRY&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa

The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care and other services that millions of Africans rely on for their survival.

The New York Times

I read in Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from America this morning Republican representatives are willing to give President Trump free reign because they believe the courts will strike down anything he does that is unconstitutional. That is an abdication of their authority and one of the purposes for which they were elected. As a Congressional representative, it doesn't matter which party you represent, stand up and do your job.

#contentwarning #USPolitics #Trump