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please. Mrs. Bloch-Wehba is my mother.* I’m *Professor* Bloch-Wehba.
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November 8, 2023 at 5:14 PM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
some professional news: I’m so thrilled to be spending next year at the Institute for Advanced Study as a member of the School of Social Science 📚🎉👩🏻‍💻
Professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba Awarded Princeton SSS Fellowship
Professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba was selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study’s (IAS) School of Social Science in Princeton for the 2024–2025 academic year.
blog.law.tamu.edu
March 24, 2024 at 6:08 PM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
hi new followers! I'm a law prof who writes about tech, free expression, press freedom, and privacy. Some of my recent articles are about tech whistleblowing; how criminal law affects newsgathering; and how the state relies on private tech vendors. smash the link for the whole oeuvre, lol 1/2
Author Page for Hannah Bloch-Wehba :: SSRN
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August 14, 2024 at 1:29 AM
hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Even as Chatrie appears to be a win for privacy, it underscores an ominous development: we have inadvertently yielded a startling degree of control over law enforcement investigations to corporations.”
Who’s Regulating Police Technology? It’s Not the Courts.
Public institutions are ceding to industry the power to regulate policing, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
techpolicy.press
July 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
*there is no Mrs. Bloch-Wehba
November 8, 2023 at 5:15 PM
techpolicypress.bsky.social
For centuries, courts and lawmakers have been the primary regulators of law enforcement investigations, placing legal limits on how police can collect information. Now, companies like Google are becoming just as influential, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
Who’s Regulating Police Technology? It’s Not the Courts.
Public institutions are ceding to industry the power to regulate policing, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
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July 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
knightcolumbia.org
What would it take to build a healthier journalism ecosystem?

In a new essay, Hannah Bloch-Wehba examines the state of the news today and proposes a public funding model that would sustain journalism’s core democratic functions while protecting press independence.
Rethinking Federal Support for Journalism
knightcolumbia.org
June 30, 2026 at 3:32 PM
jano14917.bsky.social
بما إنو.. زياد الرحباني
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بما إنو زياد الرحباني
Listen to بما إنو زياد الرحباني by Kinan Wehba #np on #SoundCloud
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July 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
Too Tired to Eat, Too Hungry to Nap: The Hannah Bloch-Wehba Story
December 21, 2023 at 11:24 PM
techpolicypress.bsky.social
For centuries, courts and lawmakers have been the primary regulators of law enforcement investigations, placing legal limits on how police can collect information. Now, companies like Google are becoming just as influential, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
Who’s Regulating Police Technology? It’s Not the Courts.
Public institutions are ceding to industry the power to regulate policing, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
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July 8, 2026 at 8:50 AM
jotwell.bsky.social
Jotwell Techlaw:
Hannah Bloch-Wehba, Bringing Society Back In: How Tech Remakes Social Relations, JOTWELL (March 10, 2026) (reviewing Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy, The Ordinal Society (2024)), cyber.jotwell.com/bringing-soc....
Hannah Bloch-Wehba
March 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A government based on deliberate indifference to information and data is a dangerous one,” Hannah Bloch-Wehba writes.
Opinion | Trump Fires Officials, but He Can’t Avoid Facts
By turning away from evidence when it doesn’t suit, the administration is showing that it doesn’t think it matters whether it has the better argument.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
okay once I got a hilarious and wonderful bamboo cheese board and knife set with my name emblazoned on it. I use the Bloch-Wehba cheese thingy often and always smile. but that was mailed to me after the fact. for regular swag I’m on team nice pen, customized moleskine, or umbrella.
August 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
techpolicypress.bsky.social
For centuries, courts and lawmakers have been the primary regulators of law enforcement investigations, placing legal limits on how police can collect information. Now, companies like Google are becoming just as influential, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
Who’s Regulating Police Technology? It’s Not the Courts.
Public institutions are ceding to industry the power to regulate policing, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
www.techpolicy.press
July 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
yaleisp.bsky.social
Thank you to Professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba for a wonderful talk on “How Tech Took Over” at this week’s Ideas Lunch!
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
princetoncitp.bsky.social
Tomorrow's CITP Seminar at 12:15pm is with HannahBloch-Webha; her talk entitled "How Tech Took Over" centers the idea of the tech-industrial complex in governance.

Professor Bloch-Wehba is legal scholar from Texas A&M School of Law & a visiting fellow at CITP this fall.

Sherrerd Hall, Room 306
September 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
are we allowed to self promote here or is that kind of gaucherie reserved for the other place? if the latter, I hope you’ll forgive me: https://blog.law.tamu.edu/blog/bloch-wehba-to-present-at-harvard/stanford/yale-junior-faculty-forum
June 28, 2023 at 5:04 PM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
I spoke to the Houston Chronicle about Flock, and… well… paywalled but it worked for me in reader mode)
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
While the fine is a drop in the bucket for the company's budget, experts said the fact that a company leading a fast-growing surveillance network is so quick to flout state regulations and licensing is worth monitoring. "This gives me big Uber vibes," said Hannah Bloch-Wehba, a professor of law at Texas A&M who has followed Flock's growth. "You've got a company that goes into a new jurisdiction and acts like it's not subject to the law in the jurisdiction because it's doing something slightly different than what the law is meant to cover, they're expanding really quickly and trying to get market share." As law enforcement agencies across Harris County enter agreements to install cameras across the region, some experts, including Bloch-Wehba, have expressed concern about the risks that might come with turning so much data about the movements of residents over to a private company. "Doesn't it seem odd that the biggest cities in the state of Texas... These cities are paying millions of dollars to a company that won't even comply with the bare minimum licensing requirements imposed by the state of Texas," she said, adding that Flock's stated goal is to build the most encyclopedic surveillance network in the nation's history.
March 27, 2026 at 12:35 PM
techpolicypress.bsky.social
For centuries, courts and lawmakers have been the primary regulators of law enforcement investigations, placing legal limits on how police can collect information. Now, companies like Google are becoming just as influential, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
Who’s Regulating Police Technology? It’s Not the Courts.
Public institutions are ceding to industry the power to regulate policing, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
buff.ly
July 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
coming 🔜: How Tech Took Over, an article about how the tech industry became central to our legal and political order
How TECH TOOK OVER Hannah Bloch-Wehba Technology firms play key roles in public governance. Their products enable forms of reasoning and data processing that modern agencies must use. Their data permits modes of analysis and surveillance that are crucial to governing populations yet, without private cooperation, would be out of reach. By now, critiques of the power of Silicon Valley could fill Alexandria: opaque, unaccountable, biased, ineffective, corrupt, self-serving, monopolistic, manipulative, anti-democratic. And yet, much like the telegraph, the railroad, and the automobile, cloud computing and artificial intelligence are rapidly remaking markets, social relations, and the state itself. Tech's entrenchment in public governance requires both a new understanding of how tech companies became so powerful and a new account of the constitutional implications of this transformation. Tech companies did not become integral to public governance by accident, nor did they ascend simply because—as many critics have pointed out—the federal government failed to regulate Silicon Valley during and after the 1990s. Instead, decades of legal and policy interventions forged an enduring, expanding role for technology companies in statecraft. Today, the tech industry plays a central role in securing American geopolitical dominance, supporting government infrastructure, and facilitating flows of data. Understanding both what technology companies do to govern and how they came to occupy such an important role in the state permits a new perspective on the constitutional costs of this arrangement. In their current role, tech companies are integral to public governance, but they neither represent nor are accountable to the public. At stake is not merely whether the existing distribution of power is consistent with constitutional doctrine or the text. Instead, recognizing tech companies' exercise of public power also means reckoning with the permanent transformations to governance that they have wrought.
January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
squandered 10 precious minutes of writing time responding to a promoted post from dystopian surveillance profiteer Garrett Langley (Flock Safety CEO) on my fave platform, LinkedIn. when will I learn???
Hannah Bloch-Wehba • • You Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law 12m • This promoted post by the CEO of dystopian surveillance tech company Flock Safety just popped up in my feed. I read it with interest, but l'm ultimately more interested in what Flock *doesn't* say than what it *does* say. Here's how l'd read between the lines: Note that Flock cannot and does not actually claim that the product reduces crime. Flock cannot and does not claim that it increases clearance rates (the ratio of crimes "solved" to total crimes). They conducted a "census" of their customers, not a study of their technology's efficacy (and forget an independent peer-reviewed study). Langley also says "we" will figure out the right balance between privacy and security. I'd prefer if by "we" he didn't mean "a $8.5 billion company that is plainly self-interested in one side of that equation." If you want to read more of my thoughts about Flock, I'm linking my forthcoming book chapter in the comments. Garrett Langley in • 2nd Founder & CEO of Flock 1w • + Follow We recently published our annual Flock customer census, a survey of over 700 agencies and as far as we believe - the largest of its kind. Aside from supporting over 1M cases last year and supporting officers in closing 20% of cases where we're live - the sheer number of missing... more
August 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
josephhall.org
"Reinvention Blueprint No. 3: To Unmake the Surveillance State, Rethink the Privacy Act" by Hanna Bloch-Wehba www.justsecurity.org/149051/reinv...
Reinvention Blueprint No. 3: To Unmake the Surveillance State, Rethink the Privacy Act
In an age of limitless access to data, the Privacy Act of 1974 urgently needs expanded coverage and independent oversight.
www.justsecurity.org
September 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
westendhba.bsky.social
☀️ U40 Breakfast featured a compelling presentation on “AI – Vision to Reality” by KPMG’s Kartik Gupta & David Tang. Explored AI’s global impact & applications. Thanks to C2Inc for making it happen! #AI #U40 #WEHBA
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
ainowinstitute.bsky.social
This report came together with rich expertise across domains. Leading off from a workshop facilitated by Alix Dunn and guided by our stellar advisory council @cmorten.bsky.social, Amy Kapczynski, Frank Pasquale, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social, and Hannah Bloch-Wehba.
August 1, 2024 at 5:10 PM
stufalk.bsky.social
Trump Is Ruling by Willful Blindness
By turning away from evidence when it doesn’t suit, the administration is showing that it doesn’t think it matters whether it has the better argument.
By Hannah Bloch-Wehba

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Ruling by Willful Blindness
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM