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Don’t act suspicious or AI will flag you. san.com/cc/stores-te...

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Your Data Will Be Used Against You www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

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Seems of relevance. www.heise.de/en/news/Pala...

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HIRING ALERT: GW Law is hiring an Associate Dean for Public Service and Public Interest. The position is currently held by the great Alan Morrison, who founded the Public Citizen Litigation Group. Job posting here:

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What an amazing resource by @daniel-solove.bsky.social. A history of privacy books. Makes a perfect summer reading list. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

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Your Data Will Be Used Against You

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Philadelphia’s GPS monitoring of teens “has quietly evolved into an aggressive surveillance program through which location data are turned over to law enforcement agencies without a warrant and used in investigations unrelated to the teens’ juvenile cases.”

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5th Anniversary issue of the Decrypting a Defense Newsletter is out. @shaneferro.bsky.social discusses the threat from Flock and a nationwide network of ALPRs. Allison reviews cryptocurrency related "wrench attacks." Laura analyzes a recent federal court decision on border searches of cell phones.

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In this essay, @daniel-solove.bsky.social discusses 400+ privacy books over the past 70+ years papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Suddenly, years of work following Palantir’s parnership with police becomes relevant again. Beware the power of social network analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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“The idea that the police are actively tracking the location of women they believe have had self administered abortions under the guise of ‘safety’ does not make me feel any better about this kind of surveillance,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @404media.co.

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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To all the recent graduates heading to law school in the Fall — this book explains how to succeed and why you belong. #books #lawschool

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What if video analytics systems violated the Fourth Amendment? digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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404 Media reports on the license plate reader company building a massive surveillance network that could help police more easily track people without a warrant or court order. www.404media.co/lice...

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Failure upon failure. www.wtsp.com/article/news...

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Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.wired.com/story/find-m...

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Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

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Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written. @ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon: https://theatln.tc/IEomtuKL

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“Obviously there are surveillance and privacy concerns with having basically flying cameras overhead every time there is an officer who's supposed to be dispatched to a location," EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @abc7chicago.bsky.social.

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🚨 Our newsroom is in crisis. Without urgent donations, The Appeal may not be able to keep publishing.

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TL;DR: Montana is the first state to close the law enforcement data broker loophole, requiring police to obtain a warrant for sensitive location data instead of buying it. This significant step protects citizens' Fourth Amendment rights and may inspire similar national actions.

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Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

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Next time you see a news article promoting a “Real Time Crime Center” or the police using video analytics, make sure you read this article about why they are likely unconstitutional. And if you are a public defender, start litigating it. #AI #publicdefender #law texaslawreview.org/video-analyt...

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Company claims their tool, Track, uses ai to track people on video “using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories.” Their 400 customers include “state and local police departments and universities all over the US” as well as the federal government.

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This headline gets the story wrong. We have an authoritarian government using every system at its disposal to target marginalized people. The privacy concerns of this tech haven’t faded, they’re greater than ever. What’s faded for Facebook are the political concerns of violating privacy.

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Literal ghosts in the machine. AI victim statement from the grave.

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Thoughts? How will this impact AI assisted police reports? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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The battle to become the platform for policing. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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It’s interesting that some version of this article haw been written every year since 2011. Shows you the lure of predictive policing. theconversation.com/predictive-p...

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Called it: "Texas bill would monitor wastewater for the abortion medication mifepristone" www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2... Wrote about wastewater as surveillance here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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www.latimes.com/california/s...

Don’t act suspicious or AI will flag you. san.com/cc/stores-te...

Your Data Will Be Used Against You www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Seems of relevance. www.heise.de/en/news/Pala...

HIRING ALERT: GW Law is hiring an Associate Dean for Public Service and Public Interest. The position is currently held by the great Alan Morrison, who founded the Public Citizen Litigation Group. Job posting here:

What an amazing resource by @daniel-solove.bsky.social. A history of privacy books. Makes a perfect summer reading list. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

Your Data Will Be Used Against You

Philadelphia’s GPS monitoring of teens “has quietly evolved into an aggressive surveillance program through which location data are turned over to law enforcement agencies without a warrant and used in investigations unrelated to the teens’ juvenile cases.”

More video analytics coming as a donation to the police. #GiftDystopia missionlocal.org/2025/06/sfpd...

5th Anniversary issue of the Decrypting a Defense Newsletter is out. @shaneferro.bsky.social discusses the threat from Flock and a nationwide network of ALPRs. Allison reviews cryptocurrency related "wrench attacks." Laura analyzes a recent federal court decision on border searches of cell phones.

In this essay, @daniel-solove.bsky.social discusses 400+ privacy books over the past 70+ years papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Suddenly, years of work following Palantir’s parnership with police becomes relevant again. Beware the power of social network analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

“The idea that the police are actively tracking the location of women they believe have had self administered abortions under the guise of ‘safety’ does not make me feel any better about this kind of surveillance,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @404media.co.

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

To all the recent graduates heading to law school in the Fall — this book explains how to succeed and why you belong. #books #lawschool

www.aclu.org/press-releas...

What if video analytics systems violated the Fourth Amendment? digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcont...

404 Media reports on the license plate reader company building a massive surveillance network that could help police more easily track people without a warrant or court order. www.404media.co/lice...

Failure upon failure. www.wtsp.com/article/news...

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.wired.com/story/find-m...

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written. @ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon: https://theatln.tc/IEomtuKL

“Obviously there are surveillance and privacy concerns with having basically flying cameras overhead every time there is an officer who's supposed to be dispatched to a location," EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @abc7chicago.bsky.social.

🚨 Our newsroom is in crisis. Without urgent donations, The Appeal may not be able to keep publishing.

TL;DR: Montana is the first state to close the law enforcement data broker loophole, requiring police to obtain a warrant for sensitive location data instead of buying it. This significant step protects citizens' Fourth Amendment rights and may inspire similar national actions.

Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

Company claims their tool, Track, uses ai to track people on video “using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories.” Their 400 customers include “state and local police departments and universities all over the US” as well as the federal government.

This headline gets the story wrong. We have an authoritarian government using every system at its disposal to target marginalized people. The privacy concerns of this tech haven’t faded, they’re greater than ever. What’s faded for Facebook are the political concerns of violating privacy.

Literal ghosts in the machine. AI victim statement from the grave.

Thoughts? How will this impact AI assisted police reports? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The battle to become the platform for policing. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

It’s interesting that some version of this article haw been written every year since 2011. Shows you the lure of predictive policing. theconversation.com/predictive-p...

Called it: "Texas bill would monitor wastewater for the abortion medication mifepristone" www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2... Wrote about wastewater as surveillance here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The future of policing is centered in Real-Time Crime Centers. Video shows it all. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

GAO Report on smart cities. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Live facial recognition tech. In the US. ! www.wkbw.com/news/local-n...

Congratulations. So well deserved.

Your Data Will Be Used Against You