The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Big Brother exclusive: US Customs and Border Patrol has leveraged license-plate readers to become a domestic intelligence agency, mostly hiding its role and paying local law enforcement to run plate readers. It has been doing this for years, saturating Texas especially. apnews.com/article/immi...

Excellent article - "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious." CBP then tells local police to pretextually stop these drivers. apnews.com/article/immi...

Nice from @byrontau.bsky.social - a reminder that local police as well as federal have been using this stuff for years www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Major, must read article, on how license plate readers are becoming a nationwide tracking tool. apnews.com/article/immi...

NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying. The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.

FYI - for those interested - Kindle edition of “Why Jury Duty Matters” is 50 cents on Amazon today.

Big news. Fresh reporting from 404 Media details how the Airlines Reporting Corporation, a data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines, will ditch a program that sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government - no warrant or subpoena necessary.

Teaching about the jury today and reading “Why Jury Duty Matters” again. It is a book that should be at the center of civic and democracy debates. Perhaps today more than when it was written, it offers a path forward. #Books

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...

@nilsgilman.bsky.social Interesting piece about a legal privilege for AI communications. In my forthcoming book, I propose a broader legal privilege for digital communications (not just AI). Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Anyone know if this is true? 75 years seems pretty long for any evidence retention. “DHS requires evidentiary data to be held for 75 years, potentially evidentiary data for three years and non-evidentiary data for 180 days.” www.politico.com/sponsored/20...

Great piece from @awinston.bsky.social: "One area where Mamdani is guaranteed to clash with Tisch is on the NYPD’s massive technical surveillance apparatus and intelligence-gathering methods, which have metastasized since 9/11 to levels that rival the capabilities of a midsize country."

I must have been in some sort of mood when I sent in this blurb for @profferguson.bsky.social's important new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance nyupress.org/978147983828...

Thank you for your poetic blurb. And as you wait to buy my book in March you should all read “Police and the Empire City.”

Coolest Halloween trick or treat. Giving a book-loving kid a signed book by an award-winning author. Talk about knocking on the right door.

You can see the document for yourself here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... We don't paywall articles based on public records like this. And we try to publish as many records as we can, like here. You can support 404 Media by becoming a paid subscriber here: 404media.co/membership/

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Rare story of community rejecting surveillance creep. www.govtech.com/public-safet...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

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Smart glasses that protect against surveillance v. Smart glasses that are surveillance. What a world.

Read this thread!

Jotwell Crim Law latest: Mary Fan, AI-Generated Police Reports, JOTWELL (March 4, 2025) (reviewing Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Generative Suspicion and the Risks of AI-Assisted Police Reports (July 17, 2024), available at SSRN), crim.jotwell.com/ai-generated....

If you are protesting #NoKings be cognizant that you are under surveillance. Your rights to petition, assemble, dissent, and just speak your mind are threatened by the same surveillance systems you have helped enable through buying “smart” tech and funding police tech to watch your communities.

“Also, around 49% of those interviewed say their agencies are apt to adopt facial recognition and 54% say they are likely to adopt predictive policing tools like AI.” news.jrn.msu.edu/2025/10/more...

Can’t say we weren’t warned. And, all of that tech will be normalized in a few years as it expands beyond immigration enforcement.

This debate over AI in policing is going to happen in every city in America over the next few years. billypenn.com/2025/10/17/p...

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/a...

@profferguson.bsky.social’s work in this area is so important.

Should you know if police used AI to draft your police report? Only Utah and California require such basic transparency. Who is next? theconversation.com/concerns-abo...

“Only by focusing on power can the law best address the problems of privacy and technology.” – from my book ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

AI Police reports must be disclosed in California. My take. theconversation.com/concerns-abo...

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

Explosive story on how your data will be used against you. Read this! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

#PaternisticSurveillance I thought you went to college to escape being nagged. Next the AI will tell you not to order late night pizza for the third night in a row.

Axon is one of the biggest provider of police tech in the country and they are staking a lot on their AI product. Now that the ink is dry on S.B.524, if police in California use their report writing tool as it comes out of box without additional retention practices, they will be breaking the law.

Thrilled that “Move Slow and Upgrade,” my new Cambridge University Press book written with Albert Fox Cahn, is available for pre-order this week at 25% off. www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

“The Rise of Big Data Policing” really should be a best seller in the UK with the number of predictive policing headlines coming out of there. Learn from the US’s mistakes. www.talk-finance.co.uk/moderntech/a...

and this too in the same week -- surveillance state getting more surveillanced each day www.wccbcharlotte.com/2025/10/10/t...

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All of this a direct result of the decades of surveillance infrastructure that we've built (and willingly paid for) due in large part to the light-touch regulatory approach we've taken with the technology industry.

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

If you want to learn about the dangers of AI generated police reports, read @profferguson.bsky.social's law review article below and then check out the last time he joined the show! open.spotify.com/episode/5Ooc...