Tracy Chou

@triketora
7K Followers
181 Following
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Founder & CEO of Block Party, try our new product Privacy Party now in beta!
Formerly software engineer at Pinterest, US Digital Service, Quora; studied EE & CS at Stanford; toots about tech, startups, making the internet better, books, news, silly memes
LocationBrooklyn, NY & London, UK
Tracy ChouJul 9, 2025
VeeJul 8, 2025
This is exactly what the internet is for.
Tracy ChouDec 13, 2024
DgarDec 13, 2024
Tracy ChouDec 13, 2024
nearly 1 in 6 congresswomen are the victims of deepfake porn - only the latest in technologically enabled intimidation and silencing mechanisms meant to keep women out of public spaces https://19thnews.org/2024/12/ai-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-target-women-congress/
Tracy ChouOct 18, 2024
every once in a while i’m impressed to see a woman of color failing forward. it’s not just for white men! kudos
Tracy ChouOct 17, 2024
i’m mad that everything about the internet that was fun & useful 10 years ago is broken now. twitter, obviously. reviews are astroturf lies. search is ai hallucination. no place to share with friends & family without influencer / meme / polarized content overrunning the feed.
Tracy ChouSep 7, 2024
Tracy Chou👩🏻‍💻Sep 7, 2024
another day, another startup announcement that makes me sigh and roll my eyes at the incompetence that silicon valley loves to fund
Tracy ChouAug 20, 2024
ranked from fave to least:
* ppl who rsvp quickly and say yes
* ppl who rsvp quickly and say no
* ppl who wait until rsvp deadline to say yes
* ppl who wait until rsvp deadline to say no
* ppl who need a reminder to say yes
* ppl who need a reminder to say no
* ppl who never rsvp
Tracy ChouAug 20, 2024

🎙️new podcast recording dropped! 🎧

catch me in convo with @1password’s @MrRooni about reimagining social media and privacy in an always online world. i'm a decade+ devoted user of 1p so it was a delight to get to chat with someone on the team

https://randombutmemorable.simplecast.com/episodes/social-media-bad-habits

Social Media Bad Habits with Tracy Chou from Block Party | Random but Memorable

How can we reimagine social media to make it safer for everyone? Tracy Chou is on a mission to do just that. Join Block Party founder, Tracy Chou, as she sits down with Roo to share her thoughts on privacy in an always online world and what led her to create Privacy Party: A tool that's reshaping the way we use social media and giving power back to the user. 🔎📱 We also unpack all the latest cybersecurity news in Watchtower Weekly, and admit all of our embarrassing security habits in #Ask1Password. 🫣❗️

Random but Memorable
Tracy ChouAug 6, 2024
random little fun fact: kamala harris and tim walz are both 60 this year, which means it's their chinese zodiac year and they're both dragons. we got a double dragon ticket here, v lucky 🐉🐉
Tracy ChouAug 5, 2024
Show threadTracy Chou👩🏻‍💻Aug 5, 2024
effective content moderation will always have at least some component that is centralized by an authority, and ideally individuals have good tools to layer on top of that for expressing personal choice.

the authority is a provider like @threads for example that will define and enforce their own content policy. the great thing about fediverse, though, is that you can choose a different server and thus a different content policy, if you disagree with the one you've got.