David Brody
Privacy rights are civil rights.
Founder & former director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
- How long until @theonion.com buys the Washington Post? “Democracy Dies At Global Tetrahedron”
- Google‘s capex will be greater than the annual military budget of Russia, the third largest in the world.
- Can’t believe they fired Nitasha. A great tech reporter.
- My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- The justices could already fire someone for any reason and effectively blackball them from elite legal career trajectories just via word of mouth. And the Court is never going to sue to enforce the NDAs anyway; that would be bad—and worse, uncontrolled—press. So the NDAs accomplish what, exactly?
- John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?' To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
- FYSA, that skull mask is a neo-Nazi white supremacist symbol. It was popularized in large part by a violent terrorist organization called Atomwaffen.
- I propose we hereafter refer to tech company surveillance proponents as COINTELBROs.
- Important column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how our lack of data privacy rights and the proliferation of markets for personal data of all types has enabled the infrastructure of ICE, mass surveillance, and rights violations at scale. Every data point, no matter how small, is a mosaic piece.
- The FACE Act (18 USC 248) provides for civil lawsuits against anyone who uses force to interfere with a religious house of worship. Notably, it authorizes state AGs to bring civil actions too. This provision was used most recently when the Proud Boys vandalized a Black church in 2020.
- The quote here is burying the lede. Reading the full post, it sounds like Trump intends to bulldoze the Kennedy Center and build a new complex.
