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Jan 12, 2025

Delete Your Account!

Delete Your Account!

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Apr 27

The Brief & Confounding Life of TikTok’s AI Remix Feature

TikTok deployed an AI remix feature without telling creators. The response was hardly favorable.

Photo of an iPhone open to the TikTook app, resting on a book. The app has pulled up a photo of a man wearing a hat and glasses who is making a cutting motion at his neck.

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Feb 27

Not So Anonymous

We’re on the brink of living in a society where anonymity becomes increasingly impossible. Meta hopes to lead the way in making that so.

A still repeated three times shows Mark Zuckerberg putting on a pair of Meta glasses. A caption reads “I mean, this is basically what the interaction looks like.”

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Feb 13

Data & Consent

If we could sum up people’s needs around online data privacy in a single word, what would it be?

Photo of the green for “go” state on a German pedestrian signal from former East Germany. It shows the outline of a man in a hat.

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Feb 6

Policy Memo: The U.S. Must Establish a Framework for Federal Online Privacy Law

An evolving memo advocating for the development and implementation of comprehensive federal online privacy law in the U.S.

Policy Memo: The U.S. Must Establish a Framework for Federal Online Privacy Law

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Jan 30

ICE Out of Our Data

If laws like California’s Delete Act help keep bad actors like ICE from accessing people’s personal data, the agency still accesses our…

A mural at the 2nd Avenue Subway stop in New York City depict three ICE officers assaulting the Statue of Liberty.

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Jan 15

A Sunset Knows No Borders

The jolt of leaving peaceful beauty abroad to return to fresh horrors in the United States

A Sunset Knows No Borders

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Oct 31, 2025

A very special Halloween(ish) unboxing video

A very exciting first for me as a writer

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Oct 29, 2025

Is Your Vacuum Cleaner Spying On You?

A recent report about robot vacuum cleaners sending maps of people’s homes to manufacturers is just the latest in a series of stories…

Photo of a round black robot vacuum cleaner on a floor. A googly eyes emoji has been added to the image of the vacuum cleaner.

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Oct 2, 2025

Friend or Foe?

A new AI device touted as a stand-in for human friends expands our surveillance culture and arrives with serious privacy issues. Plus, NYC

Subway add with a photo of a small white orb-like product suspended from a necklace with the following copy: “friend [frend] noun someone who listens, responds, and supports you. friend.com”

Robert Stribley

Robert Stribley

18.2K followers

Writer. Photographer. Experience Director. Interests: immigration, privacy, human rights, design. UX: Technique. Teach: SVA. Aussie/American. He/him.

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