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Privacy pragmatist. Journalist at ?????!?. Yes, I'm named after the song. PGP: 0B3C BD37 D934 E5E9 Kashhill@protonmail.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 7

    I spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. It was hell, but everyone should do it, just maybe not as extreme as I did.

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    May 9

    Surveillance capitalism’s new normal: lure unsuspecting consumers to give you their photos with warm and fuzzy branding & then use those photos without informed consent to train face recognition tech you market to police and military

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    May 9

    I wrote a little manifesto inspired by a convo with & highlighting the incredible empirical work of & on the type of scholarship & journalism we need to understand (and fix) big tech.

    Extremely excited for to be publishing the great !!!
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  4. May 9

    Very happy to see a judge pushing back against using Maxmind(!!!!) IP address mapping results to find wrongdoers. (See my Kansas and South Africa stories for why.)

    Judge: IP-Address Doesn’t Locate or Identify a BitTorrent Pirate
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  5. May 4

    Latest moving dilemma: Do i unjoin all the Facebook groups geolocated to my old location if it’s possible I might move back there one day? (Digital hoarding is real.)

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  6. May 3

    "It's not a privacy policy. It's a data exploitation policy." That's definitely my best ever TV sound byte, a thought inspired by this editorial last year:

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  7. May 3

    Am I really going to let my 2-year-old watch this 2-hour Diane Sawyer special about how screentime is bad in hopes she stays up to see the part I'm in? Probably.

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  8. Retweeted
    May 3

    I truly loved working with and , and I'm grateful to for starting SPD, and I'm so happy my last official story for the unit was this ridiculous bear shit

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  9. May 3

    Got to hang out with Diane Sawyer and tell her how much I hate my phone.

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    : Are your devices listening? Kashmir Hill and Harlo Holmes, experts in online privacy, discuss how online tracking may allow certain companies to predict what their users care about. 's 2-hour special airs Friday at 8|7c on .
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  10. Retweeted
    May 1

    Fired tech reporters lunch! ⁦⁩

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  11. Apr 30

    I do love that the only GMG story that the guy now running the company had recently tweeted before taking it over was a story I wrote. Good luck, Jim. Hope you don’t run that place into the ground.

    Fascinating stuff here...well worth the read and a bit creepy
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  12. Apr 30

    To my great surprise, lugging seven huge suitcases to the airport did not turn out to be the worst part of today.

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  13. Apr 29

    we move from San Francisco to New York tomorrow and have spent the last month or so just trying to shed all of our belongings and it has made me wonder if there is a start-up for giving away your life/lifestyle wholesale that i do not know about...? i would use that app.

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  14. Apr 26

    This is a such a good HTML find: TurboTax was hiding the ability to file taxes for free from search engines with robots.txt.

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    Apr 26

    Who uses Slack all the time to talk about sensitive projects? Journalists and activists. Who knows this? Nation state actors.

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  16. Apr 20

    Alexa now understand my two-year-old and we are battling for control of the music. I want kid songs and she somehow keeps ordering up explicit songs.

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    Apr 18

    Incredible: While the Muller report was being released, Facebook updates an old press post titled “Keeping Passwords Secure” with the new disclosure that millions of Instagram account passwords were internally stored in readable plaintext.

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  18. Apr 18

    I’m a Nigerian prince and I need your DNA to unlock the riches in your genetic history:

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  19. Apr 18

    Facebook (and many other social media companies) constantly push you to upload contacts because it helps them figure out every possible connection between every person in the world

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  20. Apr 18

    Beyond the security sin of asking 1.5 million people to reveal the passwords to their email accounts, Facebook then used those credentials to secretly suck up all their email contacts:

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  21. Apr 13

    Searching for phones that were near a crime seems like the perfect law enforcement use of historical location information but this article also perfectly illustrates how that data can steer cops to the wrong person via

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