Sam Adler

Sam Adler

@samadler.bsky.social

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Nicholas Stephanopoulos
@profnickstephan.bsky.social

My new article, "Redistricting Without Tradeoffs," is now live on @columlrev.bsky.social. www.columbialawreview.org/content/redi... The piece argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, tradeoffs in redistricting are generally weak to nonexistent. We can usually have our cake and eat it too.

columbialawreview.orgREDISTRICTING WITHOUT TRADEOFFS - Columbia Law ReviewIntroduction The law of redistricting is based on the potential for tradeoffs among line-drawing criteria. Better performance along one dimension—compactness, partisan fairness, minority representatio...
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Emile Ayoub
@emileayoub.bsky.social

Data brokers pose grave threats to Americans' privacy and our national security. But the US govt continues to bankroll the industry: it's one its major patrons! It's past time to close the checkbook. Congress must prohibit govt agencies from paying brokers billions to buy Americans’ sensitive info.

brennancenter.orgCongress Must Close Data Broker Loophole by Prohibiting Government Purchases of Americans' Sensitive DataA two-pager compiled by the Brennan Center illustrating why Congress must close the data broker loophole by prohibiting government purchases of Americans' sensitive data.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

wired.comThe Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They AreThe US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.

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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

reuters.comExclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location dataIt's an illustration of how the global surveillance ‌economy is shaping the battlefield.

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Justin Hendrix
@justinhendrix.bsky.social

Stories like this are citations in the growing evidence base that the United States is building an authoritarian panopticon from the top down and the bottom up. Local police departments hiring firms like Peregrine amd promising only to use it for major crimes, trafficking....

wgcu.orgSarasota sheriff taps state immigration funds for artificial intelligence policing techThe Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is expanding its surveillance capabilities, tapping a state fund to purchase a software platform that offers AI-powered data analysis with the stroke of a key. Pro...

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Emile Ayoub
@emileayoub.bsky.social

This is a great convo w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about how DHS’s vendor-mediated surveillance infrastructure threatens civil liberties and democratic accountability. Check out her insightful paper with @samadler.bsky.social for more, incl. how states can counter harms: ssrn.com/abstract=634...

papers.ssrn.comImmigration Enforcement IntermediariesFingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigration enforc
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about her forthcoming law review article, “Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries," which discusses the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement. youtu.be/WSM943XOcZ8

Sam Adler
@samadler.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to discuss Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries w/ @justinhendrix.bsky.social. If you want to keep abreast with these issues, make sure to follow @sambiddle.bsky.social, @josephcox.bsky.social, @jmbooyah.bsky.social, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social & @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social

Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.

techpolicy.pressWhy Palantir's ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of LawA conversation with Fordham Law School's Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler, authors of a new law review article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries."

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Jason Wilson
@jasonaw.bsky.social

New from me today - DHS hack shows funding for AI surveillance including automated surveillance in airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comHacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitionsRecords show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
@portlandken.bsky.social

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

theguardian.comICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimonyUnder oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

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Emile Ayoub
@emileayoub.bsky.social

As @amostoh.bsky.social and I explain in our new report, the military has been ramping up its adoption of AI, while oversight and safeguards have failed to keep up. But the Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic has brought a grave threat into focus: using AI to pry into Americans’ private lives 🧵 1/

brennancenter.orgThe Business of Military AIThe Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could jeopar...

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Thomas Kadri
@thomaskadri.bsky.social

Excellent & empathetic reporting by @iododds.bsky.social in @the-independent.com about data brokers & interpersonal abuse, with smart quotes from @samadler.bsky.social & mentions of our forthcoming @califlrev.bsky.social article w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

the-independent.comInside the dangerous and shady business of data brokersEven if you don't know data brokers, they almost certainly know you. With no nationwide U.S. privacy laws, experts warn there are often minimal safeguards against motivated people exploiting them for ...

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404 Media
@404media.co

New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too www.404media.co/google-calls...

404media.coGoogle Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Chris Riley
@mchrisriley.com

👀 And don't miss the closing line of their announcement: "If you would like to bring your memory details over from a different AI tool or export your memory from Claude for backup or migration, you can follow these instructions." (link goes to: support.anthropic.com/en/articles/... )

The Verge@theverge.com

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats

buff.lyAnthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chatsAnthropic is launching incognito chats, too.
Sam Adler
@samadler.bsky.social

Excited to share a draft of my Note—AI Procurement as Regulatory Reconnaissance—forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. Inspired by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, I contend that federal procurement offers a compelling information-forcing tool to inform AI regulation. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comAI Procurement As Regulatory ReconnaissanceArtificial Intelligence ("AI") is a black box technology in a black box industry. Some view AI as a lifechanging technology capable of advancing socie

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Chinmayi Sharma
@chinmayisharma.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that Unbundling AI Openness, my article with @alanrozenshtein.com and Parth Nobel is forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review! It introduces a framework of "differential openness" to correct the oversimplification of AI as either "open vs. closed." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comUnbundling AI Openness<div> The debate over AI openness—whether to make components of an artificial intelligence system available for public inspection and modification—forces polic
Sam Adler
@samadler.bsky.social

If the future of AI is personal, it should also be portable. Important piece from @mchrisriley.com for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social

Chris Riley offers a set of principles for personal AI data transfers, and proposes that technologists begin to immediately develop AI data transfer tools, starting with a concrete and yet valuable data model: generative AI conversation histories.

techpolicy.pressWe Need to Control Personal AI Data So Personal AI Cannot Control Us | TechPolicy.PressThe need for collective work on data models and transfer tools will grow more complex and more important, writes Chris Riley.

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Andrew Couts
@couts.bsky.social

NEW: DOGE affiliate Chris Sweet has developed an AI tool that is being used to rapidly slash government regulations, according to details of a meeting reviewed by @wired.com. Scoop by me: www.wired.com/story/sweetr...

wired.comA DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government RegulationNamed for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.

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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social

I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT. In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.

gizmodo.com'This Was Trauma by Simulation': ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health ComplaintsGizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.

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Fordham Law School
@fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social

Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (‪@chinmayisharma.bsky.social‬) and student Sam Adler '26 (‪@samadler.bsky.social‬) argue data brokers enable violence by selling people's information, and suggest that a data-deletion right should be enabled and enforced. via Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)

lawfaremedia.orgBrokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of DataIn a world where data brokers enable violence by selling our information, safety requires a data-deletion right that people can reliably enforce.&nbsp;

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Chinmayi Sharma
@chinmayisharma.bsky.social

Excited to share a @lawfaremedia.org piece with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social that builds off our article Brokering Safety, forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social, that calls for an overdue conversation about how much we privilege data broker profits over human safety.

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

lawfaremedia.orgBrokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of DataIn a world where data brokers enable violence by selling our information, safety requires a data-deletion right that people can reliably enforce.
Sam Adler
@samadler.bsky.social

Appreciate the opportunity to write with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social for @lawfaremedia.org to call for a more expansive right to obscurity, building off our article—Brokering Safety—forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

lawfaremedia.orgBrokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of DataIn a world where data brokers enable violence by selling our information, safety requires a data-deletion right that people can reliably enforce.

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Thomas Kadri
@thomaskadri.bsky.social

A new provocation from me, @samadler.bsky.social & @chinmayisharma.bsky.social to extend the proposal in our forthcoming Calif. L. Rev. (@califlrev.bsky.social) piece by letting *anyone* force data brokers to obscure info through a centralized process. It's time to call the 1st Amendment question!

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

lawfaremedia.orgBrokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of DataIn a world where data brokers enable violence by selling our information, safety requires a data-deletion right that people can reliably enforce.

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Chinmayi Sharma
@chinmayisharma.bsky.social

23andMe didn’t own your DNA—it was bailed to them. In Bailing Out Biometrics (forthcoming, J. Tort Law), Elijah Gordon & I argue that biometric data deserves bailment protection. Allowing its breach and then selling it in bankruptcy, isn’t just wrong—it’s illegal. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comBailing Out BiometricsIn 2023, hackers breached 23andMe and extracted the biometric and genealogical data of nearly seven million people. By 2025, that data-originally offered up in

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Tech Policy Press
@techpolicypress.bsky.social

After a recent court order, OpenAI is now required to retain the very data many of its users believed to be most private. This introduces serious privacy risks, especially for vulnerable users like victims and survivors of domestic violence, Belle Torek writes.

techpolicy.pressFor Survivors Using Chatbots, ‘Delete’ Doesn’t Always Mean Deleted | TechPolicy.PressMany survivors may assume that AI platforms and chatbots offer common privacy protections, but these are not guaranteed, Belle Torek writes.

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The Markup
@themarkup.org

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future. By ‪@wired.com‬:

wired.comThe US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal DatabaseCustoms and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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SSRN
@ssrn.bsky.social

Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes a selection of recent #research on #cybersecurity & data privacy. Read more: http://spkl.io/63320ffily #Academicsky #AcademicChatter #dataprivacy

spkl.ioThe Latest Research on Cybersecurity & Data PrivacyThis list includes a selection of the latest research on cybersecurity & data privacy posted to SSRN in 2025. Understanding the Cyber Risks of Artificial Intelligence: An Ongoing, Comprehensive…