Emory Roane

@emoryro.bsky.social

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Dad, privacy advocate, Assoc. Director of Policy at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Also: Forever GM, friend of dogs, once called an “Anti-advertising extremist”, trying to push back against the cyberpunk dystopia by posting as rarely as possible.

Screenshot of the service Ground News, showing the “bias breakdown” of the coverage of the US attack on Venezuela with insipid analysis like “this stark diversion — from a legal analysis to a military announcement — reveals profound ideological splits on US foreign intervention and executive power.”
Two page spread from the latest Dylan Dog Oldboy issue, “Skinwalker”. A man walks in a park at night listening to Joy Division’s “Shadowplay”, and is attacked by a wolf man creature.
880 identified data brokers across the 5 state registries. This screenshot shows a table with a search panel at the top, a bar graph showing the distribution of registries across the 5 states, a table view allowing the sorting and filtering of all of the data brokers.
As the Elvis-stand in, teen-heart-throb Nick Rivers, Val Kilmer performs a song and dance number to a room of shocked Germans in the 1984 comedy Top Secret
Screenshot of Bluesky post: “OpenAI’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector. OpenAI is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist. It’s not an accident”
Stringer Bell in The Wire chastising a lieutenant, asking him “Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?”
Graphic showing: 72,553 Data Breach Notifications Tracked, 8.16 Billion individuals impacted, 25,850 Breach Notification Letters Reviewed and Over One Million affected by a single breach . . . only 11 days ago Last breach reported: February 6, 2025 Database updated on: February 9, 2025
California Assembly Bill 270 which would “establish… the nations first tested autonomous firefighting helicopter”. Scrawled note from a very serious policy review reads “Cool kickass rad. Fuckin flying fire fightn robots”
Summary graphic showing highlights from our data breach database: * Today: 72,360 Data Breach Notifications Tracked * 8.16 Billion individuals affected *25,725 Breach Notification Letters reviewed And the byline "It has been 8 days since a breach reported impacting 1M Americans" Last breach reported: January 16, 2026, Database Updated on: January 23, 2025
A photo of a La Befana doll. The doll depicts a witch, exactly like the Halloween variety but in rich reds and silver, kinder makeup and a jovial laugh
Screen shot of bluesky on mobile showing three notifications