Tiffany C. Li

For the first time this year, data centers have become targets for bombardment in global conflicts. Our analysis shows at least 27 such attacks in 2026. Experts worry the targeting of data centers opens a Pandora's box that cannot be closed. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.

Kid you used to know from the neighborhood turns out to have grown up cool

If you told me I’d be redownloading Mapquest in 2026 to try to stay ahead of the surveillance state I wouldn’t have believed you

Because I'm going around speaking and doing workshops on these issues at schools and colleges, all of this is very familiar to me, most particularly the angst faculty feel over turning to surveillance, and... www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

They’re recreating the Morris Worm, for which Robert Morris was convicted of a felony.

NEW: In recent months, 200+ cities have cancelled their Flock contracts. But how much do its surveillance cameras actually cost? What about its software add-ons? Or its drone program? I FOIA'ed + researched cities across the country to find out: www.wired.com/story/how-mu...

This is the kind of disgusting, clearly immoral event that authors of dystopian stories include to make it obvious when a society has lost its way

“Some researchers are now seeing the models more as competitors than tools—and the use of them as a betrayal.”

As more efficient, capable AI models are given more power and autonomy in the form of agents, how can we notice when they go wrong and prevent catastrophes in the future? Baobao Zhang & I have written a new report on incident reporting for open models & agents. citizensandtech.org/2026/10/inci...

To the dude loudly playing Duolingo French on the plane, comment dit-on “faux pas?”

AI model submitted false tip about unsolved murder, Philadelphia police say 6abc.com/post/anthrop...

A city in Texas is basically saying that there are potentially SO MANY responsive records about how it abused Flock cameras, it'll take 14 years to find all the records and cost $2.3 million.

NYC's entire city council is holding a hearing on AI safety now with leaders from Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI to testify... www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/... CNBC's @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com is covering and you can watch the livestream at the link below in next post...

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Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

Quoted in this Al Jazeera tech explainer on AI liability in the British Columbia vs. OpenAI lawsuit: www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

This is why lawyers generally can't use AI (and clients shouldn't either). www.techdirt.com/2026/08/12/n...

Took a required Econ class. I mostly remember doing super well on the stock simulation because I bought all the tech stocks. If only I had actually invested in Apple and Amazon back then…

A very cute thing about human beings is when the sunset is especially beautiful and everyone just stands outside looking and taking photos of the sky

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

Love when we finish discussing how the court ruled on a case in Privacy Law, and a student says “Well, that seems problematic.” Yes, indeed.

Governments all over the world have been building up arsenals of technologies to surveil and monitor migrants and asylum seekers. We conducted a global survey to map the various technologies reportedly used on people on the move. privacyinternational.org/report/5866/...

I find education policy so interesting because it is tied up with what we like to believe about the American Dream, that this nation is a meritocracy where we are all just temporarily embarrassed multimillionaires and every smart and hard-working child can and will succeed. But then reality hits.

Not surprised actually. The Vatican has been consistently pro-human on AI ethics these past few years.

New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...

Starting now: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Flock, ALPR camera networks, and the dangers of this AI surveillance technology I'll be watching and providing info and reactions on the hearing as it unfolds.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_yM...

Yikes

when ai leaves u behind

Just a major academic publisher supporting the AI literacy crisis

"Since Nebraska began using interRAI last year, the state has cut Medicaid funding to nearly 900 people with developmental disabilities, leaving many caretakers racing to overturn decisions made by an algorithm whose inner workings are largely hidden from the public."

"State courts have the power to grant a more expansive range of rights than those found in the U.S. Constitution, and state constitutions provide the means for them to do so." - @tiffanycli.bsky.social

Published a new post on @statecourtreport.org @brennancenter.org today: “State Privacy Rights Are More Important Than Ever” statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...