Joseph Jerome
@joejerome.com
Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com
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Joseph Jerome
@joejerome.com
· Oct 27
Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?
Podcast Episode · Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell · 10/22/2025 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
Humble brag: excited to join the line-up of guests that @rickysutton.bsky.social and Alan Chapell have had on the Future Media Podcast to talk about AI, competition, surveillance, and where the browser fits in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
“The theory of self-correcting economic power routinely ignores the predictable actions of those who have economic power...As we will likely rediscover with Google, “The great monopolists are not passive.”
Magical AI thinking won’t make markets more competitive, writes @leahnylen.bsky.social:
Magical AI thinking won’t make markets more competitive, writes @leahnylen.bsky.social:
Don’t Expect AI To Disrupt Google’s Monopoly on Search
A judge said artificial intelligence would upend Google’s dominance, but two new books argue that monopolies rarely fix themselves.
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“The theory of self-correcting economic power routinely ignores the predictable actions of those who have economic power...As we will likely rediscover with Google, “The great monopolists are not passive.”
Magical AI thinking won’t make markets more competitive, writes @leahnylen.bsky.social:
Magical AI thinking won’t make markets more competitive, writes @leahnylen.bsky.social:
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Props to @publicknowledge.bsky.social for this and shout out to @nullset.bsky.social ’s statement on the history of an independent FTC!
The People's Oversight Hearing may be over, but the fight isn't over yet! Read the event recap in the latest from Public Knowledge intern Autumn Telles:
publicknowledge.org/a-recap-of-t...
publicknowledge.org/a-recap-of-t...
A Recap of The People’s Oversight Hearing
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
publicknowledge.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Props to @publicknowledge.bsky.social for this and shout out to @nullset.bsky.social ’s statement on the history of an independent FTC!
My birthday is next week.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My birthday is next week.
“Should I ask my CEO for a promotion during a podcast?” Latest episode of Duck Tales tackles AI chat organization with a bold question: insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales...
Duck Tales: Improving AI chat organization, and design decisions at DuckDuckGo (Episode 8)
Improving chat organization in Duck.ai, from chat naming to chat ‘pinning’. Plus, the process of turning user feedback into features that maximise user benefit.
insideduckduckgo.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“Should I ask my CEO for a promotion during a podcast?” Latest episode of Duck Tales tackles AI chat organization with a bold question: insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales...
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(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
"Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.”
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This is part of a global push to roll back privacy laws by companies that are constantly in trouble for violating privacy laws.
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
At a time when US-based social media companies are platforming far right extremism in the EU, Meta is trying to get the Irish government to front their assault on EU privacy laws.
web.archive.org/web/20251030...
web.archive.org/web/20251030...
Data protection rules ‘completely out of control’, Meta tells Government
Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level
web.archive.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is part of a global push to roll back privacy laws by companies that are constantly in trouble for violating privacy laws.
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”
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The law firm that has represented data broker Kochava in its 3-year legal battle with the FTC over privacy is seeking to withdraw due to "serious and irreparable breakdown in communication."
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The law firm that has represented data broker Kochava in its 3-year legal battle with the FTC over privacy is seeking to withdraw due to "serious and irreparable breakdown in communication."
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
This idea from @esquiring.bsky.social is totally doable but has minimal chance of being embraced by Meta.
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This idea from @esquiring.bsky.social is totally doable but has minimal chance of being embraced by Meta.
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wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’
“It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
The “open Android model” requires a locked down Google-controlled app store? www.theverge.com/news/807703/...
Google has officially petitioned the Supreme Court in Epic v. Google.
In the meanwhile, on October 29th, Google will have to change its Android app store in big ways. “While we will comply, it forces us to weaken vital security protections, jeopardizing user safety and ...
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The “open Android model” requires a locked down Google-controlled app store? www.theverge.com/news/807703/...
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Today, the smart home died a little...
Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
Here’s how to opt out.
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Today, the smart home died a little...
Humble brag: excited to join the line-up of guests that @rickysutton.bsky.social and Alan Chapell have had on the Future Media Podcast to talk about AI, competition, surveillance, and where the browser fits in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?
Podcast Episode · Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell · 10/22/2025 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Humble brag: excited to join the line-up of guests that @rickysutton.bsky.social and Alan Chapell have had on the Future Media Podcast to talk about AI, competition, surveillance, and where the browser fits in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Inject this into my veins:
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Inject this into my veins:
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it."
This is a fantastic breakdown of why the court’s “humble” assumption of genAI as a search market disruptor is based on a half-dozen flawed assumptions.
NEW: Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Kshirsagar (@princetoncitp.bsky.social) analyzes the barriers to entry these startups still face.
Will GenAI Break Google’s Dominance in Search? - ProMarket
Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Kshirsagar analyzes the barriers to entry these startups face—scale, distribution, defaults, data and integration advantages, and content access—to show how Big Tech is still in control of the future of the search industry.
www.promarket.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is a fantastic breakdown of why the court’s “humble” assumption of genAI as a search market disruptor is based on a half-dozen flawed assumptions.
I really love when SVU does a tech episode. Here’s my take on RFID chips eight years ago: iapp.org/news/a/embed...
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I really love when SVU does a tech episode. Here’s my take on RFID chips eight years ago: iapp.org/news/a/embed...
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Got some light weekend reading for y’all.
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me
This very first-gen device raises several questions about where the next chapter of mobile computing is headed.
www.theverge.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Got some light weekend reading for y’all.
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
My Meta Ray-Ban Display review. It’s got impressive tech in it but it’s very much a first-gen device.
But there are much larger cultural questions: Do we want this future and if so, how do we build it ethically?
www.theverge.com/tech/801684/...
“Kavanaugh Stop.”
Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Kavanaugh Stop.”