Stephanie MacLellan

@smaclellan

Researcher at focusing on cybersecurity, digital rights, etc. Recovering journalist. Honorary Slovak.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Mar 2018

    The Cambridge Analytica case demonstrates that we can’t really make an informed decision about which potential uses of our data we are willing to accept because not even the platform companies can fully anticipate them. New from me in :

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  2. Kanye West used that exact word in the Oval Office while sitting not ten feet from the president and no one complained.

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  3. I feel like there's going to be an entire generation of kids angry at their parents for putting them all over the internet before they're even sentient

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  4. "We will not use such sensitive data in any way, not now and not in the future." 's editor-in-chief released a statement, explaining how we as Germany's largest newspaper will deal with the hacked and leaked private information.

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  5. Jan 4

    Brilliant work from and co who found that women are under-represented in Google image search results for dozens of occupations. Great example of the kind of analysis that can now be done at scale using image classification algorithms

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  6. 22 hours ago

    Whoever had “drug company buys your DNA to target drugs at you that you’ll never be able to afford because US health care is broken,” you “win” the dystopian pool today.

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  7. 23 hours ago

    So pumped for this upcoming and security conference! Submit your proposals for 's first ever Twitter conference in the run-up to the annual workshop in June. More info below. cc:

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  8. Jan 3

    Congress now has more Native women than your newsroom, huh?

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  9. Read my colleague on how to understand 's decision to censor content as part of a global trend of platform compliance with repressive regimes' requests:

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  10. 24 hours ago

    To my earlier point about the German political hacks and the media’s role, via . There are no easy answers here.

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  11. Jan 4

    Let's spell this out more clearly: 1—Twitter accounts spreads URLs to bad leak 2—Twitter suspends account 3—Journalist posts screenshot of suspended account with live links 4—Press stories simply mention suspended Twitter handle 5—Hello archives 3 = just stupid 4 = please stop

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  12. Jan 4

    Pro-tip, today for German journalists (one, really) and leak-watchers: don't post the screenshot of a suspended Twitter account if the backup link list to the full leaked archive of private data is still live. Bonus tip: even blurring URLs in bio will not make a difference.

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  13. Jan 4

    I’m particularly interested to see how the German media handles this. Will they report the contents of the stolen data, like US journalists did in 2016?

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  14. Jan 4

    This is really beyond the pale. It is also what Canadian politicians are up against in 2019.

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  15. Jan 3

    Do you know someone that has the spirit of Kim Wall? Each year, we will fund a with an eye for the overlooked. Applications close Jan 4th, so apply today!

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  16. Jan 3

    Having failed to destroy Russian rap, the Kremlin is clearly trying to kill it by becoming rappers themselves. Here chief TV propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov vows to "put my gas pipeline on your sanctions"

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  17. Jan 2
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  18. Jan 3

    Ray Boisvert, a former CSIS assistant director, leaves the Ontario government. Boisvert was the first provincial security advisor, and built that office from the ground up.

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  19. Jan 3

    2018 was a discouraging year for digital security and influence operations. I regret to inform you that 2019 won’t be any better.

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  20. Absolutely no one likes Paul Ryan yet somehow no one has ever written a story about whether he’s likeable

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  21. Jan 2

    23 years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington DC. Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress. 🙏🏾

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