Stav Zeitouni
Postdoc, Berkeley Law
NYU Law & Hebrew University alum
Writing about privacy, copyright and law & psychology (and occasionally Israel/Palestine)
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- This is a good overview of the surveillance tech powering ICE's work. For a deeper dive, would highly recommend @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social American Dragnet report & policy recommendations - originally published in 2022, with a new forward from May 2025.
- Facial recognition cameras, AI-powered social media analyzers, license plate readers, fake cell towers, cell phone spyware—ICE has broadened its arsenal of surveillance tech, alarming privacy advocates, lawmakers, and ordinary community members. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/03/h...
- "imagine if we applied due process norms to immigration" is the 2026 counterpart to 2001's "imagine if we applied due process norms to privacy" - this should be a straightforward choice for anyone who believes in democracy, and yet
- Reposted by Stav ZeitouniA preview of @weissmann.substack.com and my discussion of the federal government's outrageous response to the Alex Pretti shooting. Full video and sharable link: youtu.be/tlnmFvlgeck?...
- Spent the better part of the day with a good friend I met when we were both in middle school in MN. I don't think I can explain just how deep the heartbreak and outrage go.
- Timely reading from 1996.
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- Can 100% guarantee this is not what Oliver Wendell Holmes meant when he said that the law can ask no better justification than the deepest instincts of man
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- Reposted by Stav Zeitouni“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
- The poetryxlaw crossover made especially for me and my niche interests 😍
- Actually the perfect screenshot
- I got this ad on YouTube and genuinely could not tell if it's a parody for a minute. Has there ever been a better encapsulation of what AI will bring to the world.
- This! One of my first thoughts upon moving to the Bay Area was that the BART could go much further. Just on a purely selfish level, there are several big universities in its range but they're *so* badly connected. It shouldn't take 2-3 hrs one way from Berkeley to Stanford on train tracks.
- Honestly one of the worst things about social media is how little space there is to just grieve. Mourning is a communal activity and yet we've made it so fraught to just exist with each other in that space.
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- Not the most important thing here, but Thaler v. Perlmutter says AI systems can't be authors. That means that the "corresponding human" can't claim copyright in these papers, which makes the "paper info" section nonsensical. You can't license what you're not an author of!
- AI anthropomorphization hits new highs in science, thanks to a @utoronto.ca PhD candidate and some obvious @aixiv.bsky.social deceptions. @emilymbender.bsky.social @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social www.the-geyser.com/aixiv-nothin...
- Feeling this very much rn, as I struggle with the ninth iteration of a paper
- The proposed list of data CBP seeks to add to ESTA is dystopian: not only facial recognition, but DNA & iris scans and social media from the last 5 years. Also note: the larger # of hours it will take to process all this, especially with shift only to mobile app. Deadline to comment is Feb. 9!
- It's (almost) my birthday again, which means it's also the time of year when Rabbis for Human Rights do their annual fundraiser. They do incredibly important work on the ground in Israel/Palestine, including protective presence and joint olive harvests. Please consider donating if you can.
- I refuse to believe this story is real and not a very successful modern iteration of War of the Worlds that will be shortlisted for a Hugo Award.
