About The Nexus of Privacy
The Nexus Of Privacy looks at the connections between technology, policy, strategy, and justice.
We launched in the "hot privacy summer" of 2022 – just in time for discussions of federal privacy and anti-trust legislation, the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, a potential FTC rulemaking, and so much more. In 2023, we covered (and testified and organized in support of) Washington state's passage of My Health My Data, in many ways the strongest consumer privacy bill in the country. Since then, we've also focused extensively on decentralized social networks, including Mastodon and Bluesky.
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On Social Networks
The Nexus of Privacy is also present on several social networks:
- @thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange and @thenexusofprivacy@gotosocial.thenexus.today on the Fediverse
- @thenexusofprivacy.net on Bluesky
- @thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone and the Nexus of Privacy community in the Threadiverse
- Our Dreamwidth community. Dreamwidth is a great place for discussions, although the user experience is very old-school (think mid-2000s LiveJournal).
- @nexusofprivacy on Twitter, where we still very occasionally posts
About me
I'm Jon Pincus, a software engineer / strategist / activist. I've written extensively about privacy activism for over a dozen years – as well as focusing on the intersection of software engineering, justice, and equity. I've also been involved with, and often helped to lead, activism campaigns from Stop Real ID Now and Get FISA Right in the mid-2000s through the multi-year privacy legislation battle here in Washington state. More details here.
You can reach me by email (nexus-of-privacy@thenexus.today), or social networks including Twitter; Dreamwidth; Mastodon at @jdp23@indieweb.social, @jdp23@hci.social, @jon@scholar.social, @jdp23@toot.cat and elsewhere; Diaspora at diasp.org; Facebook LinkedIn; and a bunch of other social networks that I've mostly forgotten the passwords to.
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