I’m Eddie Ortiz, a photographer, privacy technologist, and classicist exploring the future of images, attention, and human judgment in the era of AI. 🤠

I work in privacy for security at Microsoft, focused on assessing the privacy implications of security products and services that leverage AI to protect some of the most sensitive data in the world.

My background in classical studies shapes how I think about accountability, ethics, and the role of human judgment in automated systems. My photography and endurance training ground that thinking in the practice of attention.

I created the Privacy Prompter, a framework that reduced a 20 to 30 hour privacy review to 2 hours while keeping humans in the loop. It is my model for how privacy professionals can work co‑intelligently with AI.

My message: AI scales intelligence, not attention. The challenge is deciding what deserves yours.

I write about visual trust, automating toil without automating judgment, what the humanities teach us about AI, and how photography and endurance shape a life built on meaningful work.