What I Care About
These aren’t abstract issues for me. They show up in my work, my daily life, and in the legislation I watch come out of statehouses that mostly don’t understand what they’re passing or are actively targeted those already disenfranchised.
Privacy & Surveillance
We’ve built a world where the default is collection. Every app, every service, every device is harvesting something and most people either don’t know or have decided it’s not worth fighting. I think it is.
This includes:
- Corporate data collection and the surveillance economy
- Government surveillance infrastructure
- Age verification laws that trade child safety for mass data collection
- Biometric data and facial recognition
Right to Repair
If you paid for it, you should be able to fix it. Manufacturers have spent years using IP law, proprietary parts, and software locks to make that impossible — and legislators have largely let them. That’s a consumer rights issue, an environmental issue, and a property rights issue all at once.
FOSS & Digital Rights
Free and open source software is one of the few countervailing forces against total corporate control of the digital stack. I use it, I advocate for it, and I think it matters more now than it ever has.
Digital rights more broadly includes:
- Net neutrality
- Encryption policy
- Access and digital equity
Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
The Fourth Amendment was written before smartphones. Courts and legislators are still catching up, and a lot of damage gets done in the gap.
Age Verification Legislation
I’ve followed this closely and written advocacy on it. Most age verification laws are well-intentioned but poorly designed; they solve one problem by creating a larger one. I believe you can protect minors online without building a national ID infrastructure or a mass biometric database.
Cybersecurity Policy
Security policy written by people who don’t understand security is dangerous. I care about getting this right at every level: organizational, state, and federal.
LGBTQ+ Rights
Equal rights aren’t negotiable. That includes trans rights, which are under coordinated legislative attack right now across the country. I believe in bodily autonomy, the right to exist without state interference, and that no legislature should be in the business of telling people who they are.
Sex Work & Labor Rights
Sex work is work. The people doing it deserve the same labor protections, safety, and dignity as anyone else and criminalization makes all of that worse, not better. FOSTA-SESTA is a case study in legislation that claims to protect people while actively harming them.
More broadly: workers deserve fair wages, safe conditions, the right to organize, and protection from exploitation. That applies everywhere, including industries and gig arrangements designed specifically to avoid those obligations.