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Liz O’Sullivan Profile picture
@lizjosullivan
Dec 4, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
And now, back to our regularly scheduled Bad News in AI Policy tweets...

Today @AINowInstitute, along with our @STOPSpyingNY team & dozens of organizations/individuals, joined forces to say to NYC government: You could have done so much better by us. /1

ainowinstitute.org/ads-shadowrepo…
All year, we've been watching the ADS Task Force work to audit and improve the systems that make decisions governing NYers daily lives. We saw the stonewalling, the resistance, the banging of the proverbial table, and in the end, a report with little substance of use. /2
Now, thanks to the tireless work of Rashida and SO MANY others who refused to let this opportunity pass without comment... if you want to know how to actually do right by your constituents and have real AI transparency? Read #ConfrontingBlackBoxes 👇🏻 /3
ainowinstitute.org/ads-shadowrepo…
In contrast to the ICO policy guidance that came out a few days ago, it hurts to see NYC remain secretive and opaque at the expense of all of us. NYC was supposed to be a leader in protection against harm from AI, instead we lag far behind. /4
Lawmakers, you've let us all down. Please take the time to read AI Now's incredible work, and learn from the experts there who are all working to protect people from automated harm. @BilldeBlasio @NYCComptroller @nycpa @NYCSpeakerCoJo @BobHolden4NY @CMPeterKoo

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Jun 8, 2021
All the privacy news on Sidewalk says it’ll drain your battery, spend your data plan, expose you to hacking threats, all of this is true. But it misses the forest for the trees. Amazon in possession of a nationwide network gives them the power of a utility. With less oversight.
People sometimes forget that the original tech villains were the telecoms, and rightfully so. Sidewalk can’t wiretap your conversations* like the telecoms can, but that’s not the only way police have used them to put innocent people in jail.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
It wasn’t until 2018 that the Supreme Court said police need a warrant to access cell site location records. Will this decision apply to WiFi probes? Maybe? It was a narrow decision with Roberts as tiebreaker. Will it stop them from trying? Who knows. nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/…
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May 7, 2021
Kinda excited and kinda sad that in my short career as a tech activist, I can now, for the first time, throw up my hands and say “I’ve been talking about this for years!” 🤦🏻‍♀️
One of my most popular tweets, in fact, was about this. I don’t love sharing it bc some mild factual errors appear due to haste and lack of available info at the time, but for posterity, here it is. Every now and then it resurfaces in my mentions bc (surprise!) people DO care.
🌟Now with Fewer Errors🌟

Here’s why I’m still freaking out about Amazon Sidewalk (but not as much about Apple’s tags):

NOTE: There’s still plenty wrong with AirTags but I’ll let @FoxCahn do the talking here:

cnn.com/2021/05/05/tec…
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Sep 21, 2020
Did you know that Amazon Sidewalk can track you, even if you’re not logged on?

Last year, people called me paranoid for worrying about probe requests and Amazon’s mesh network, but here we are a year later and location tracking is now more clearly at the heart of the operation.
The more devices they sell into the world, the more complete a picture they’ll have of what’s in it; what we do, where we go, how we spend our time. Sidewalks talk to each other. And likely to all WiFi devices, with or w/o Sidewalk, in subtle ways.
theverge.com/2020/9/21/2144…
Most consumer tracking efforts through today have focused on the individual and their device. Amazon, however, seems to want to turn the physical world into an Amazon Go store with their sensors, microphones, and cameras aimed at everything we do. There is no opting out.
Read 4 tweets
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Jul 29, 2020
Me, getting ready to watch House anti-trust testimony:
My whole Twitter feed:
Congress, apparently:
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Jun 11, 2020
🚨🚨This should feel like winning but it feels more like a thinly veiled threat. @BradSmi says MSFT won’t sell FRT without federal law governing use. IN FACT, Microsoft has WRITTEN such a law, and their lobbyists are pushing it from state to state.🚨🚨 /1
thehill.com/policy/technol…
SURPRISE: their law sucks. Policy experts agree that, while there is benefit to requiring a warrant for the use of FRT, the MSFT-backed law has giant loopholes, allowing a vague definition of “emergency” to allow for continued rampant use of FRT unsupervised by the courts. /2
Microsoft and Amazon have BOTH pressured congress to unify privacy standards country-wide, because they want to undo the CCPA and local FRT bans in cities like SF, Oakland, and others proposed in NYC, Boston... the list goes on /3
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Jun 9, 2020
This is, without a doubt, my favorite algorithmic bias story of the year. There are so many errors here, I don’t even know where to begin...
1. In large scale automation cases like this one, you better be damn well sure your classifiers aren’t biased. Since this is an impossible task, (all models are biased) AT LEAST retain meaningful human oversight of the task at hand.
2. Don’t put robots in charge of news, end of sentence. Besides what happened here which is just normal ordinary AI racism, models can’t really detect propaganda, sarcasm, or intent... for all our sakes, don’t put robots in charge of news (PLEASE)
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