2. He's a funny guy. Maintains his sense of humor despite being a lonely voice advising us that the law can't keep up with all the ways data about us can be collected. That data collection, by the way, is encouraged by federal grants to YOUR TOWN for surveillance technology, which is often implemented without thought about how the collected information will be used.
3. His new book is
which is about, among other things, how the legal definition of "the reasonable expectation of privacy" is diminishing as, for instance, people know and expect that they're tracked everywhere they go with their phones.
4. At Dartmouth, he told an anecdote about how he never imagined that his Flickr photos would be used as training tools for facial recognition software. That's the whole ball of wax, isn't it? We can't imagine the ways all the data collected about us can be used.
4a. He said it's a short leap for the body cameras that police wear to have facial recognition software, so that every time you interact with police (or pass an officer on the street), your face will be scanned to see if you're in any law enforcement data base. Like Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Here are 2019 examples of exactly that.
5. He pronounces his name Sir-RUSE.
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