Sabrina I. Pacifici

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How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data

1 day ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

EFF: “Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy. Law enforcement demanding access to your private online data goes back to the beginning of the internet. In fact, one of EFF’s first cases, Steve Jackson Games v.
HOW to protect people from ICE

1 day ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

• WARNINGS about ICE in the area• How to protect yourself and WORKPLACE from ICE• Protect yourself from ICE at HOME• A way ICE is notified where to look• Other ideas here → How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids. Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls

1 day ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

Wired – no paywall: “Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. A WIRED investigation into 911 calls from 10 of the nation’s largest immigration detention centers found that serious medical incidents are rising at many of the sites.
I Tried, and Failed, to Disappear From the Internet

1 day ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

Wirecutter: “As a privacy journalist, I have given all manner of advice for how to secure and obscure an online life, but I’d never undertaken a project that extends the idea of privacy to its logical conclusion: by disappearing completely. So I set out to erase my online life. I failed. Finding myself (online). The most obvious way to see what everyone else can easily learn about you is by Googling yourself.
Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

1 day ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

By Sabrina I. Pacifici, 26 Jun 2025 Vox: “…Americans still consume plenty of text. Social media platforms teem with words — even video-based apps like TikTok are replete with captions and comments. And on average, we spend more than two hours scrolling through such platforms each day. But not all reading is created equal.
Google Ends Support For ClaimReview

1 day ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

Indicator: “Google announced in a relatively muted fashion that it was killing off support for ClaimReview, the structured data that powered its fact-checking features in Search and News. This is directionally consistent — though far less dramatic in tone and impact — with Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to terminate Meta’s US fact-checking program earlier this year. ClaimReview served to inform Google’s crawlers of the claim and rating contained in a fact-checking article.
A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

1 day ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

By Sabrina I. Pacifici, 25 Jun 2025 The New York Times no paywall – “Since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence over the last two years, the technology has demeaned or defamed opponents and, for the first time, officials and experts said, begun to have an impact on election results.
GIFS Just Got a Lot More Searchable

2 days ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

Internet Archive: Earlier this month, we announced an updated version of GifCities, the Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine. We’ve enacted several improvements to the search engine holding 1.6 million old-school GIFs from the GeoCities era—including “GifSearchies,” an updated text-based search, GIFs searchable by size, GifGrams (customizable webcards) and lots more.
The Facts About Vaccine Safety

2 days ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

By Sabrina I. Pacifici, 26 Jun 2025 The Conversation: “In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.
U.S. Copyright Office Replaces Online Public Catalog with Copyright Public Records System

2 days ago | bespacific.com | Sabrina I. Pacifici

“Today, the U.S. Copyright Office is pleased to announce that the Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) has replaced its Online Public Catalog. CPRS provides copyright registration and recordation data with advanced search capabilities, filters, and improved interfaces for public users and Office staff. CPRS is the second component of the Office’s Enterprise Copyright System (ECS) to be made publicly available.