Joseph Jerome
@joejerome
Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com
Wanna bet Meta’s excited about about their pervert glasses? They’re breaking through more than previous generations of glasses, and they aren’t even trying with their privacy talking points. archive.ph/2IjmT
Victor Morel argues that the TCF doesn’t really facilitate legal compliance at scale, and notes the anticompetitive elephant in the room at #PETS2026.
So amped to hear Franzi Roesner in person at #PETS2026 — and amped that @duckduckgo.com could sponsor the shindig!
Yana Dimova has data to back up top points: active regulators improve privacy compliance, and CMPs stink.
“Get your own lawyer!” PETS’ PR2 policy workshop is rocking @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social is discussing legal entanglements that tech researchers now face.
Never forget Facebook’s privacy dinosaur, which they scrapped when people actually started making decisions to protect their privacy.
My representative, @usrepkathycastor.bsky.social, calls the SECURE Data Act an “appalling betrayal” of American’s privacy. Watching this hearing, it’s disappointing to see how little focus has been placed on whether this bill does anything to my privacy.
Underappreciated point from @caitrionafitz.bsky.social: the SECURE Data Act posits itself as a “consensus bipartisan bill,” but the history of the Washington Privacy Act-model is that it was written by the very companies it purports to regulate.
Not liking the direction Google is headed? Come to the Duck side. www.duckduckgo.com
Google is taking the position it should be able to see rivals’ business plans and strategy docs to challenge their ability to use any of the remedies the court ordered in the search competition case. DuckDuckGo believes this will create a chilling effect: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Wonderful Friday to take a train up to Penn Carey Law to hear Judge Mehta talk Google’s monopoly — and chat antitrust and digital competition.
Interesting paper talk from @schroeder1stabskys.bsky.social covering SCOTUS’ recent First Amendment cases, suggesting there’s a big absence of theory and a nice dose of Calvinball.
The decline in traffic from Google over the last year has been dramatic, notes @tampabaytimes.bsky.social’s @katches.bsky.social at AEJMC’s Southeast Colloquium. #GoogleZero
The existence of this company suggests a major market failure. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/a...
“Anyone who’s tried to share a Sharepoint file understands.” @ruchowdh.bsky.social lambasting how wasteful “technological integration” can be. I laughed hard. Very hard. From personal experience.
“I was a corporate attorney for 5 miserable months and I guarantee AI could do that job better than I.” - @andrew-yang.bsky.social at @opentodebate.bsky.social discussion on whether AI will make work obsolete.
Does anybody else remember when Facebook was going to let users vote on policy changes?
“Nothing plus nothing equals nothing.” More and earlier light touch intervention could have headed off much of the anticompetitive corporate concentration. Jonathan Kanter is giving a masterfully entertaining seminar on digital competition at @knightgtown.bsky.social
“The public has waited long enough,” writes @publicknowledge.bsky.social’s @bergmayer.net in an amicus brief challenging Google’s stay delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Can’t wait for @theverge.com to do some sort of retrospective about how Judge Mehta misread nascent competition in the AI market in 5 years… www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...