Opt-Out Is Not Consent

GitHub announced they'll use Copilot interaction data to train AI models by default. The right answer is opt-in. Microsoft can afford to ask.

March 26, 2026 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Interview: Have the Machines Taken Over?

I did a fun interview with Jeff Martin of Collective Genius as part of his LeadByChange interview series. It’s 20 minutes on the Boulder Creek Path. We talk about Leadership,

June 6, 2018 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Facebook As The Ultimate Surveillance Machine

Whenever someone tells me about the progress humans have made, I remind them that since the beginning of humans, man has been trying to kill his neighbor to take over

March 26, 2018 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Privacy and Facebook – The Non-Surprise

In 2008, I gave a talk at my 20th-year reunion at MIT Sloan. The title of the talk was something like “Privacy is Dead” and my assertion, in 2008, was

March 21, 2018 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Have We Passed Peak Surveillance?

Doc Searls wrote a great, very detailed post this weekend titled Thoughts on privacy where he argues we have passed the point of “Peak Surveillance.” He says, about halfway through the

September 2, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Lavabit Commits Corporate Suicide

I was shocked for a few minutes last week after I heard that Lavabit committed corporate suicide. I pondered it for a while and then forgot, but two things this

August 12, 2013 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Does The Government Already Have All Of Our Data?

Near the end of the week last week, the lastest “the US government is spying on US citizens” scandal broke. For 24 hours I tried to ignore it but once

June 9, 2013 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Glassboard – Private Group Sharing

Glassboard, a new mobile app for sharing privately with groups, just launched from my friends at Sepia Labs. They’re seeing some good initial coverage from ReadWriteWeb and Macworld and twitter

September 1, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Rethinking My Social Graph

I’ve had a number of interesting conversions about the intersection of the virtual and the physical world since I wrote the post Did Someone Ruin Foursquare For Me Yesterday? Kashmir

April 10, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Did Someone Ruin Foursquare For Me Yesterday?

I was at lunch at Japango with some of my Foundry Group gang yesterday. When I went to my house in Alaska last July, I took a Mac with me

March 16, 2011 · 4 min · Brad Feld