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VOICE ARCHIVE

Melanie Ensign

@imeluny
12 posts
2022-08-01
Pro Tip: “we have no evidence of misuse” is not the reassurance companies often think it is bc we've come to expect by default that there won't be adequate monitoring or logs. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-01 View on X
New York Times

A cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing the personal data of 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling school children's sensitive information

At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down. Tweets: @funnymonkey...

2021-11-19
Dear Congress: this is not uncommon in many big companies. Privacy & security teams are constantly swimming upstream against strong current b/c we still don't have a federal privacy law that holds non-privacy/security execs accountable for their business practices. Do your job. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-19 View on X
Wired

Sources and internal docs detail Amazon's careless handling of its retail customer data, including letting some low-level staff snoop on celebrity purchases

2021-09-25
But also, when comms & policy folks at big tech cos sit down for performance reviews, they're graded on how many big campaigns/events they led, so it's very common for these types of “pop-ups” to be proposed as the solution to every brand perception problem.
2021-09-25 View on X
Washington Post

How Facebook is using its metaverse push to rehabilitate its reputation with policymakers and reposition itself to shape regulation of future technologies

With a buzzy push for next-wave virtual reality hardware, the tech giant is trying to outrun its mounting woes.

It's very telling that the experienced political strategists at tech cos believe this kind of strategy works on regulators & lawmakers...because it does. There's no moral high ground in DC. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-25 View on X
Washington Post

How Facebook is using its metaverse push to rehabilitate its reputation with policymakers and reposition itself to shape regulation of future technologies

With a buzzy push for next-wave virtual reality hardware, the tech giant is trying to outrun its mounting woes.

2021-09-05
Takeaway for other orgs: engage with external experts, communities, & activists BEFORE announcing potentially controversial features. You need to be able to cite those discussions upfront. The ability to identify what might be considered controversial is a performance metric. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-05 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements

Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.

2021-09-04
Takeaway for other orgs: engage with external experts, communities, & activists BEFORE announcing potentially controversial features. You need to be able to cite those discussions upfront. The ability to identify what might be considered controversial is a performance metric. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-04 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements

Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.

2021-03-04
Nobody believes Google is doing this for altruistic reasons — so what it tells me is that the math worked out in privacy's favor. It's lazy & ignorant to assume you can't be both profitable & make privacy improvements. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-04 View on X
The Verge

Google promises it will not build alternate identifiers to track users after phasing out third-party tracking cookies

Google says it wants a ‘privacy-first web’  —  Google is slowly phasing out third-party tracking cookies, and today, it's making it clear that it won't just replace …

2020-12-22
Another example of why establishing trusted relationships in the industry BEFORE you need them should be a priority for all security teams. If your communications strategy doesn't include building industry coalitions & allies, you're significantly limiting your options. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-22 View on X
Reuters

Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco, LinkedIn, GitHub, VMware, and the Internet Association file an amicus brief in support of WhatsApp in the WhatsApp v. NSO Group case

(Reuters) - Tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet , Cisco, and VMware on Monday joined Facebook's legal battle against hacking company NSO …

2020-05-31
I hate pre-announcements. They're purely manipulative. Don't let companies (or governments) get away with claiming credit for products, policies, or organizations that don't actually exist yet. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-31 View on X
@oversightboard

[Thread] Facebook Oversight Board says it is “working hard to set the Board up to begin operating later this year”

which implies that the company also did not rule out taking action on them. Will Oremus / @willoremus : I asked Twitter for comment on these Khamenei tweets that Trump's FCC chair ...

I hate pre-announcements. They're purely manipulative. Don't let companies (or governments) get away with claiming credit for products, policies, or organizations that don't actually exist yet. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-31 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …

2020-05-01
Don't collect what you don't need. 🙌🏻 “The company said that the assessments with Ro are confidential and won't be disclosed to Uber. It added that it won't receive any personal information on drivers' health or symptoms.” https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-01 View on X
CNET

Uber partners with telemedicine service Ro to give US workers free COVID assessments, as Lyft partners with One Medical for one month trial memberships

Dara Kerr / CNET : Tweets: @imeluny , @trafficbutter , and @darakerr . Thanks: @richardjnieva Tweets: Melanie Ensign / @imeluny : Don't collect what you don't need. 🙌🏻 “The compan...

2019-10-09
An important ruling. Data collected for a specific purpose cannot automatically be used for another. https://twitter.com/...
2019-10-09 View on X
National Review

FISA court rules that an FBI foreign surveillance program violated Americans' civil liberties, deeming tens of thousands of searches from 2017-2018 illegal

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that an FBI program intended to target foreign suspects violated Americans' constitutional right …