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submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

seems like a good morning for me to re-up this!

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

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If you know of anyone thinking about geofence warrants (hello 4th Circuit) i just wrote a short piece on why they violate the Fourth Amendment. #law Everywhere Everything Searches (part of the GW JOLT Symposium). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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AUWCL's Giving Day is here! This once-a-year opportunity brings us together to make a lasting impact on AUWCL. For the next 36 hours, every gift—big or small—helps empower students and strengthen our community. Let’s rally together and make a difference! tinyurl.com/AUWCLGivingD...

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Had a great time presenting at GW Journal of Law & Technology’s inaugural symposium.

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"We believe that a full investigation will demonstrate that Mr. Bove likely violated multipleprovisions of Rule 8.4 of New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct" 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

We did this a decade ago and guess what … it didn’t work. Substituting in AI hype to replace “big data” hype doesn’t change anything.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

In case you missed it: “social justice” and “equity” now interpreted as illegal in education under this far-right U.S. administration. We are experiencing the rollback of civil rights protection that only lasted two generations in American history. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

What if a group of recently retired law partners came together to create a new firm(s) to hire and train all the newly laid off/not hired law graduates. Cases to preserve the rule of law. Employment law. Environment Etc. We seed fund the start up costs with donations. #LawMatters

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

How does the designation impact the use of surveillance technologies? Some digital surveillance tech is not allowed to be used in the US except if so designated? Does this open the door to additional digital tracking, databases, signals?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Of course this was going to happen. It’s why police do not want to be intertwined with deportations. Anyone who has studied this for half a minute knows this. Destabilizes entire communities. Also makes undocumented folks targets.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Cool symposium #LegalSymposium #LegalInnovation #AI #Surveillance #GWJOLT #GWLaw #GW

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“It brings all of our camera feeds in, license plate readers, gunshot detection, and other things that Phoenix PD has. It puts us in constant connection with them in real-time to help keep the neighborhood and also keep our campus safe.” www.azfamily.com/2025/02/12/n...

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BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

Another version of AI Assisted police reports. www.police1.com/police-produ...

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When Toledo police rolled out their Fusus system, allowing officers to tap into the live feeds of privately owned cameras, they promised to only use the power in emergency situations. We obtained data that tells a very different story about when, and who, TPD watches. gizmodo.com/clearly-disc...

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The future will be surveilled. Here is your warning. gizmodo.com/clearly-disc...

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Joan Huffman files a bill to rollback criminal discovery protections in Texas. The bill is expressly worded to undo the Court of Criminal Appeals's decisions in Heath and Watkins.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Worth a read if you are worried about surveilance. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/10/s...

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icymi: cook county sheriff tom dart quietly worked with freakonomics’ steven levitt on an algorithm that used shotspotter + police data to “match” people on electronic monitors to new crimes—even as their own research found the monitors were prone to false alerts.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

important thread

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This article validates what I've been arguing -- privacy can be a powerful tool to resist the authoritarian moves of the current administration www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/p...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

AUWCL Prof. Rebecca Hamilton warns of rising threats to press freedom, from self-censorship to state control, risking democracy. Read more: tinyurl.com/Hamilton-Free-Press #PressFreedom #ChampionWhatMatters

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about reports that AI tools are being used with federal data noting that this is occurring without transparency, consent, or attention to privacy and security concerns, and heightening the American public's mistrust of AI www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Is there some federal criminal code section that criminalizes this? A private company says diversity is good for business and it violates federal criminal law? What? slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

getting very excited about this friday's pop culture & the law symposium at american university school of law! i will join some fabulous colleagues on the fashion law panel to talk about upcycling, first sale, & material alteration ⌚️👟👜 join us on zoom or in person! bring yr chanel button jewelry

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

it took a year and a half but my first reader cover story is finally out! it's a deep dive into how the cook county sheriff's office worked with the university of chicago to build a web of surveillance for people one electronic monitors. but there's so much more. strap in. 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

Also doing great work about tech surveillance. It’s worth subscribing…. Help save journalism and be entertained.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Quoted in this deep dive into electronic monitoring and digital surveillance in Chicago. chicagoreader.com/news/electro...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Who needs a gun registry when you already have a gun registry? Or why conservatives should also care about data privacy. www.propublica.org/article/guns...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Too much else going on in the world, but in a normal world this would make for an interesting debate.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Not only conducting mass raids, ICE has posted notices for contractors to provide surveillance tech to enlarge, transform, and modernize capabilities to track, monitor & surveil noncitizens. Migrants are at nexus of surveillance tech & expansion of racial state power. truthout.org/articles/ice...

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To my fellow DC citizens, please PLEASE show up for jury duty over the next few years. The only people who can really stop political prosecutions are DC citizens. We may not have any congressional representation but we have an equal vote in the jury room. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.

submitted 25 days ago • 156 comments

The L.A. County Sheriff’s violations highlight how unfamiliar police can be with their own policies, “how easy it is for police to use sensitive data for prohibited purposes, & the value of transparency in providing oversight,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @reason.com.

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"Trump’s PCLOB Purge Risks Banning Meta, ExTwitter, Google, And Even Truth Social From Europe" from @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/t...

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Once the technology is adopted, installed, and embedded, it becomes infrastructure for whomever has power over it.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Warned about this for years… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/t...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is an awesome and informative thread. Too bad you can’t just cut and paste it (tone and all) and file it as an amicus.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

It’s odd no one has written about the long history of American jury nullification in political cases. You can’t convict him without a jury. I imagine a Chicago jury would acquit in an instant.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

submitted 35 days ago • 87 comments

I know. Cursed by my namesake. And there is yet another Andrew Ferguson in Washington DC. Best selling author, journalist. Can we get Trump to give this one a nickname so he doesn’t ruin mine.

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