Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲

Tech, Justice, Policy things — @OTI, House, Senate, @ObamaWhiteHouse alum — Armenian 🇦🇲 Michigander (#goblue). Tweets: mine!

[david, now streaming, only on morar+ @morar]

I know we’re all focused on a bunch of other stuff, but privacy is still important, and it’s time to call out some folks who absolutely know better, yet still have been instrumental in delaying the passage of federal comprehensive privacy.

[Open Tech Institute at New America @OTI]

#ADPPA's #DataPrivacy protections surpass those of #CCPA & #CPRA, offering the same or stronger #privacy protections & adding #CivilRights protections CA's laws miss. "Californians should not settle for a lower standard," said @OTI's @morar in @sfexaminer: https://t.co/6dko3u0fi7

[Signal @signalapp]

Here is your friendly reminder that we built Signal for private, secure communication. It’s built so you can communicate individually and in groups, through text and calls, without fear of interference or data collection. Free to use and not for profit.

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

@hv_longworth Sure is.

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

Delete the fertility apps, use encrypted services (and support/defend encrypted services), turn off location tracking....

[Prof Gina Neff @ginasue]

I say this as someone who writes about the politics and economics of self-tracking: delete those fertility apps now.

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

@CSReed1986 It was no longer date night lol

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

Latest absurd DC dating story: yesterday, a 37yo man with whom I was going to go on a FIRST date asked if we should go for drinks or food. Not wanting to decide, I said "surely we can find a place that has both"

...so of course he asked me for my address. He landed on my place.

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

John Oliver just deftly broke down the problematic surveillance economy, and made the cleverest case for @SenatorRonWyden's Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act -- last night's episode was a MUST-watch:

https://t.co/qzjy1CXqhR

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

Too oppressed & cuisine too good 🇦🇲🥲

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

A guide to whiteness in Europe

[Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan_qureshi]

🚨🚨 This is insane: Facebook and Apple gave user data to hackers who said they were the government @business
https://t.co/o4UwFfENUB

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

🤓🤓🤓 nicely done @JakeLaperruque

[Ashley Gorski @ashgorski]

If the Biden administration and the European Commission announce a new Privacy Shield deal without U.S. legislative reforms, the deal will almost certainly be struck down by the EU's highest court (again)—leaving U.S. companies in the lurch.

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Stop the #EARNITAct

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

The #EARNITAct is SESTA-FOSTA on steroids. SESTA-FOSTA didn't help victims. It increased sex trafficking: https://t.co/UGj0F5k7l6

[Emma Llanso @ellanso]

.@SenBlumenthal appears to acknowledge that "misuse of encryption is what gives rise to liability here". His #EARNITAct would also set up an AG-headed commission to articulate "best practices" about what "misuse" could mean.

[Lauren Sarkesian 🇦🇲 @SarkBites]

In which @SenBlumenthal admits that #EARNITAct IS about undermining encryption.