Folks need to be paying attention to the growth of Real-Time Crime Centers. It is not just NYC, but they tend to lead on these things. www.biometricupdate.com/202510/nypd-...

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But see… “The Rise of Big Data Policing.” www.policechiefmagazine.org/quiet-revolu...

Kinda fascinating dispute. Self-surveillance camera network restricting access to police because of how police release footage. www.biometricupdate.com/202509/new-o...

Meta sent emails to 6 people informing them that ICE had served the company with a subpoena demanding extensive personal information about the users. The accounts, most notably StopIce.net, are part of a broader crowd-sourcing movement that works to publicly identify masked ICE agents.

Excited to see “Digital Rummaging” get noticed by the always brilliant Professor Natalie Ram. cyber.jotwell.com/rummaging-re...

Jotwell Techlaw: Natalie Ram, Rummaging Rebooted, JOTWELL (September 3, 2025), cyber.jotwell.com/rummaging-re...

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

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3 companies are peddling AI products which synthesize evidence for police + prosecutors. Critics are alarmed by the new AI use case, cite potential for exculpatory evidence to be overlooked + errors to be introduced. AI shouldn't be used to put people in jail they say therecord.media/law-enforcem...

Imagine a prosecutor dumping videos, digital records, and interviews into an AI model and asking it to structure a prosecution. You don’t have to imagine anymore.

This is a big story and the first I know of to investigate how AI will revolutionize prosection. Read it if you want to see the future. therecord.media/law-enforcem...

Feds failure to pay defense lawyers... "Panel attorneys are forced to lay off staff, forgo essential case resources such as investigators and experts, and even stop taking CJA cases altogether. As a result, the accused will be deprived of a complete defense, court backlogs will grow" By @nacdl.org

4. It still doesn't address the *root* causes of crime. Surveillance is not a theory of sustainably preventing crime or keeping people safe. Surveillance gets convictions, but do convictions lower crime rates city or state-wide? No! Put that money to things that do: housing, education, health.

3. In the age of authoritarianism, think about how this much fusing of information is a ticking time bomb (that's probably already gone off) for retribution against people for their First Amendment protected activities, not to mention retroactive prosecutions for things not criminalized yet.

2. No mention of the harms this can cause. Like policing generally, this tech is only being deployed a fraction of the time to address serious crime. What does it do the other 22 hours of the day and how will marginalized communities suffer for it?

A few found cars is enough to appease folks that mass surveillance is OK for those small wins but here are the important takeaways: 1. Police are so shockingly cozy with the multi-billion dollar companies that sell surveillance tech that you have to ask who is actually making policy.

Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.

You name any type of device or platform that collects data, a company exists that can package it and sell it as a data stream to police to be fused with everything else. CLEAR? Oh, yea. Geolocation from advertising databrokers? Yes!

The smaller companies make money by getting the big ones to lease their services providing specific information to the bigger platforms. One company has relationships w/ smart home appliances for data, one company does only social media scraping and analysis, one does metadata from phone companies..

A number of big companies are incredibly interoperable with a thousand other devices and companies and serve as major platforms to consolidate, fuse, map, and provide AI-enhanced analysis of all this data. We're talking drones, ALPRs, surveillance cameras, gunshot detection, and more....

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

So you are saying…

Honest question. Are there other examples in history where the top US Attorney in a jurisdiction was not ever trained as or had experience as a prosecutor?

Without an independent FTC, will it be credible enough to enforce the EU-US Data Privacy Framework? The US will lose its most effective federal regulator of privacy. My article about FTC privacy reg with @hartzog.bsky.social is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sad to hear about crosscut. They did some good journalism. www.cascadepbs.org/investigatio...

Great piece. It’s not just NYPD. Your Data Will Be Used Against You They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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No “Why Jury Duty Matters” in the Emmy swag bag this year… but you don’t have to be a star to read it. #Emmys

Should cities be gifted surveillance technology? www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Probably should become a best seller now. #Books

Probably should become a best seller now. #Books

Must read. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Just preordered the book. Everyone who cares about criminal justice should get this book. #books

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. futurism.com/openai-scann...

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Juries and grand juries have always been the community conscience standing up against government power. More American than apple pie. Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

This is going to be in casebooks on prosecution ethics someday. Examples of discretion or the lack thereof. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...

Odd but flattering. leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2025/...

Anyone have access to the Fourth Amendment training National Guard troops get before acting as law enforcement in DC? Training on arrests, probable cause, reasonable suspicion, paper work etc?

The UK making the same mistakes as the US just a decade later. Someone needs to read “The Rise of Big Data Policing.” nyupress.org/978147989282... www.biometricupdate.com/202508/uk-go...

When my mom - Karen Ferguson - died, Sherrod Brown called me out of the blue to express how much he admired what she did for workers, Teamsters, pensioners, and all those who benefited from the Butch Lewis Act. No ask. No politics. Just decency & uplift from a decent man. #Vote

What Andrew Ferguson, an expert on big data policing, says in this piece: “The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”