Angela Woodall

@howtoadu Happy to hear more, @howtoadu

@AngelaWoodall Thanks for covering the Affordable ADU Forgivable Loan in Napa - can we get in touch about the other events coming up in American Canyon and Calistoga? ryan@how-to-adu.com Thank you!

Report: Rare giant fish from ocean’s depths washes up on the Sonoma Coast patch.com/california/hea…

@AmyTrask Your book was key just now having founded a nonprofit Salvage-to-Sailing - women, ecology, and leadership. Appreciations!

@AngelaWoodall Thank you Angela - thank you very much - and it would have been wonderful to connect while you were there - and hi.

@AmyTrask Loving #YouNegotiateLikeaGirl wishing I had known when I was reporting for the Trib!

@AmyTrask Indeed. I appreciated the time you made to talk about the stadium back then. What a journey since...

Has anyone else had problems with fraudulent @poshmark orders? You order X but receive Y. Even if you can't report it w/in 72 hours (gone on family matters and no idea when the package will arrive), fraud is fraud.

EU/US+ regulators are betting big on data portability for competition vs GAFAM. Have you ever tried it? I'll be presenting a study testing DP for stakeholders at the Data Transfer Summit Feb. 29 in DC. Registration open: dtinit.org/docs/feb29summ…

@LuizaJarovsky @_LinKyi @asia_biega @franziroesner @Cristianapt Thank you for the alerts!

🏆 AWARDED PAPER ALERT: deceptive design in the context of GDPR's legitimate interest. More info & important quotes below: The paper "Investigating Deceptive Design in GDPR's Legitimate Interest," authored by @_LinKyi, @asia_biega, @franziroesner, @Cristianapt, Sushil Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, and Frederike Zufall, was published in 2023 and has recently won the Stefano Rodotà Data Protection Award 2024. Deceptive design & dark patterns are some of the topics of my own Ph.D. research, and this paper brings a very important empirical contribution to the field by analyzing deceptive design practices in the context of GDPR's legitimate interest. Here are some important quotes: "The use of legitimate interest is exploited through deceptive design practices both at UI and linguistic levels. From our findings, we noticed that the implementation of this legal ground has many UI and linguistic deceptive design elements so far unreported in the literature of deceptive designs. In particular, more attention should be paid to deceptive designs that go beyond the UI. Complex deceptive designs often combine multiple dubious practices in one interface, as our study found with linguistic and UI deceptive designs being used when presenting legitimate interest. (page 12) - "Neither participants nor the law approve of advertising purposes under the legitimate interests legal basis, despite its common usage. As observed in Section 2.1, the use of the opentextured term, “legitimate interests” allows controllers to base the processing of personal data on a balancing decision when indeed their own legitimate interests outweigh those of the data subjects. This is necessary because the law (Art. 6(1) GDPR) may not foresee all potential scenarios that may occur in practice." (page 13) - "Lack of enforcement. The function of “legitimate interests” as a legal basis for cases that were not foreseen by the law has one important consequence: the decision on whether legitimate interests actually outweigh the protection of personal data, and thus are a valid legal basis, is reliant on the case-by-case assessment of executive decisions by DPAs and judicial findings of courts. This means that this huge margin of interpretation ultimately depends on assessing these cases in practice. Otherwise, as our studies show, it may be exploited to the detriment of data subjects’ rights." (page 14) - As many privacy professionals have already realized, there is an overreliance on legitimate interest to confer lawfulness to data processing. This paper sheds light on the fact that this overreliance might be, in fact, abusive, as it often deploys dark patterns. *Prof. @Cristianapt - one of the paper's co-authors - will be my guest on the podcast next week, together with Prof. @hartzog. We will discuss deceptive design and more. Register (link in the comments) and join us live. Read the paper below (link⬇️)

Ready to talk data portability: Save the Date dtinit.org/docs/feb29summ…

@Klonick We crossed paths re platform governance. If you are still in Paris, I'm at the Sorbonne working on data regulations, APIs, portability, transparency.

@montezumachavez "Closed" - do you mean resolved? (Just making sure I understand what you mean)

Data Privacy and data protection discussions that you would think are closed. 1. Scope of "Personal Data" 2. Cookies 3. Consent as legal basis 4. Transfer of personal data 5. Data retention.

Here in France: Discovering geo-blocking/fencing the hard way by being locked out of some digital services (ChatGPT features, Threads). Or the "choice" between ads/data gathering and access (FB). The service-for-data reality is much clearer and concrete w real enforcement

@mems_ukc And many thanks in advance if you do! Sorry to be so abrupt :)

@mems_ukc Would you have suggestions for literature (in addt to Mark Bailey) about 16-18th century manorial account books? I am trying to understand who would have seen the entries.

@Meta I'm a PhD researcher trying to confirm how APIs are used in the personal "archive" feature on @Facebook and @instagram. I have tried the help center etc.

@aschrock I remember those days! The Brigades - like the Oakland Brigade were a big part of the civic organizing led by CfA, which many of us have mixed feelings about.

What probably won't change is the overall chapter structure and themes. Here's the TOC, so you can get an idea!

I'm pleased to announce that I've received a contract from The MIT Press for publishing my academic monograph on Code for America and infrastructural organizing! The book will be coming out in Michael Zimmer & Laura DeNardis' Information Society series.

Does anyone know if the Twitter (FB/Insta) "archive your data" features involve an API? How do the downloads work? Lots of guesses but I am trying to confirm.

Turntable shopping advice. Should "remediation historian" be a new STS subfield? nytimes.com/wirecutter/blo…

@RebekahKTromble Seriously. I just attended the dauphine.psl.eu/dauphine-digit… symposium with European regulators and researchers that underscores what the future will look like on both sides of the Atlantic.

@STS_News I stumbled across the books (and the film Master and Commander) as an extension of taking up sailing...I didn't know there were others out there but I see now I was wrong!

How many of you are Aubrey/Maturin fans and we just haven't talked about it yet?