What a nice surprise to find this review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Society for Technical Communication by Donald Riccomini. Thankful to the reviewer for engaging the book and the claim that we need a new type of accountability www.jstor.org/stable/27373...

New op-ed: Many users were distraught over OpenAI’s shift from GPT-4o to GPT-5, describing the change as “losing a friend” or a “therapist.” The enormous online reaction shows that, when language models sound convincingly human, people start to forget they aren't.

Big thank you to @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for his generous review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Journal of Law & Political Economy. He lays out the difficult questions involved in valuing harm & distributing compensation, in which LPE can play a role escholarship.org/uc/item/4jz9...

Grateful to Christopher D’Souza for his thoughtful review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Canadian Journal of Law & Technology. He that our privacy regime is, as he says,“not only outdated, but untenable” in the face of current data practices.

Another class action was (correctly) considered ascertainable based on a common privacy loss when the statute allowed for it.

Really grateful to the Université de Montréal for organizing this roundtable on The Privacy Fallacy and to @penney.bsky.social @elanazeide.bsky.social @stzeitouni.bsky.social @cehaupt.bsky.social Nicolas Vermeys Pierre-Luc Deziel & Neil Richards for joining and sharing their fabulous interventions

Nine brilliant scholars (links below) wrote about The Privacy Fallacy in a symposium on Balkinization, & one couldn’t have asked for a sharper, more thoughtful engagement. The responses challenge, expand & improve the arguments pushing forward the conversation on privacy, power, and AI governance 1/

Anyway, here's an article on inferences Spotify makes https://buff.ly/4f3vxL0

The audiobook came out at the one-year mark too. Besides Amazon/Audible, it's on iTunes here: https://buff.ly/4gaJFmO

I'm grateful to the Director Journal for doing a profile on The Privacy Fallacy in this month's issue -- happy to share it with anyone who might be interested and doesn't have access!

I'm so thrilled that, a year since publication, The Privacy Fallacy is now available on audiobook (Audible and iTunes), beautifully narrated by the amazing Alex Freeman: t.co/386gVTAJhv