Citing, in part, Telegram’s general refusal to respond to most law enforcement requests, a U.S. Attorney’s Office sought and received remote access to Telegram’s servers. www.courtwatch.news/p/145-biking...

Last night a third activist whose Instagram account was targeted by DHS filed a motion to quash the subpoena sent to Meta. That makes three of the six accounts tagged as "collaborators" in a video post about a particular Border Patrol agent. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71398...

Scoop: DHS is trying to unmask Instagram accounts that named and shamed federal agents. One activist just filed a motion to quash the subpoena which was sent to Meta in early Sept. theintercept.com/2025/09/18/d...

It was an honor to share messages like this from John Doe government tech workers fighting back against data abuses. Thank you, @eff.org!

You should be skeptical of any government tool that relies on secrecy to operate www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

This is a story EFF was made for. Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: www.wired.com/story/secur...

Cert petition filed at the Supreme Court from the 4th Circuit's geofence warrant case, United States v. Chatrie. . supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

NEW: After massive contract terminations for consulting giants like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Is it a “lifetime subscription” or a contract that auto renews every 100 years for a penny?

In 2021, I made a slideshow based on 50+ incidents of police misconduct toward journalists. It covered all California over a 12 month period. The legislature responded with new laws to protect press. I just made a new one. It's bigger. It's worse. And it's just one week in Los Angeles.

But I came to this assessment because of the hard and tireless work of others, people who continue to engage in this system I have judged to be broken, and I suspect they will still be working tirelessly when the final hour comes. That deserves appreciation, not cynical disrespect.

In April we scraped the five data broker registries and spent some time normalizing and cross-identifying the registered brokers. Today @privacyrights.bsky.social and @eff.org are sending letters to CA, OR, TX, and VT calling out 100s of missing brokers from each. privacyrights.org/resources-to...

Why Aren't Hundreds of Data Brokers Registering with States? A new analysis of 750 data brokers reveals that many data brokers that registered in one state aren’t registered in others www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

After finding OPM illegally disclosed personal records of millions of Americans to DOGE agents, a judge today ordered OPM to create detailed report about every disclosure it already made and describe measures to mitigate security concerns from those illegal disclosures. www.eff.org/files/2025/0...

New: led by Senator @wyden.senate.gov and Rep. @aoc.bsky.social, members of Congress are demanding Palantir answer questions about their federal contracts following our NYT story last month: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/t...

📣A VICTORY FOR PERSONAL PRIVACY!📣 In our case against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and DOGE, A NY federal district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction. (1/6)

A federal judge in NY granted a preliminary injunction in our OPM/DOGE lawsuit. The court found OPM violated the law and bypassed its established cybersecurity practices. The scope of the injunction will be decided later this week www.eff.org/files/2025/0...

The Supreme Court in effect just allowed DOGE teams unfettered access to Social Security Administration data while a lawsuit to block that access goes forward. It stayed a lower court's preliminary injunction.

BREAKING: 2 #SCOTUS orders on Trump admin emergency appeals. Justices restore DOGE access to Soc. Security data. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... They also cut back court orders allowing CREW to probe DOGE actions. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Both appear 6-3 as libs dissent.

A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

We just sued Sonoma County for its warrantless drone program. With 700+ flights logged, county agents routinely launch low-altitude drones that invade people’s privacy in and around their homes. This violates the California Constitution, full stop.

A federal judge in Texas refused to grant ICE a "general warrant" to search a business to find "anyone its agents believe may be an unauthorized alien" law.justia.com/cases/federa...

The D.C. Circuit appeal in the case over DHS-IRS immigration-related information sharing will be briefed over the summer, with oral arguments expected in September. The plaintiffs' preliminary injunction request was denied in mid-May: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A little bit of history today. The High Court granted permission for us to take Ireland’s first ever class action. This isn’t just about our class action against Microsoft. It opens a way to finally enforce the GDPR against all big tech that uses Ireland as a shelter. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

BREAKING: Trump administration asks #SCOTUS to halt discovery in DOGE #FOIA case, including deposition of DOGE administrator Amy Gleason. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

The DC Circuit is allowing discovery to go forward in a case to prove DOGE is an agency subject to FOIA, www.courtlistener.com/docket/69914...

NEW: “By withdrawing the CFPB’s data broker rulemaking, the Trump administration is ensuring that Americans will continue to be bombarded by scam texts, calls and emails," says Sean Vitka, executive director of Demand Progress. A scoop:

Elon’s OPM Hands Out No Bid Contract to Cloud-Based AI HR Company To Take Over HR Work from Fired Civil Servants talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elons...

1.4 billion reasons why not, www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release... 650 million reasons why not, iapp.org/news/a/faceb...

A judge narrowed the scope of a search warrant that had given UCSC police access to years of our client's phone data after she took part in a protest on campus. The warrant had granted police access to communications with the student’s lawyers about the very case that she had brought against the UC.

Just stepping back a second to look at the big picture here: This is probably the worst fact pattern for DOJ to go to SCOTUS on a DOGE access case. "John Roberts gave Elon Musk your Social Security info" is NOT the headline he wants *going into* June — with all of its high-profile decisions.

Bondi Lifts Ban on Subpoenaing Reporters’ Notes in Leak Investigations a reversal of a Biden/Garland-era policy that banned going after reporters’ notes, phone records and testimony (she issue a memo last week, but now the reg is out and we can see details) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

DOGE is engaged in macabre-sounding things: "Are You Alive Project" "Death Data Clean Up Project"

JUST IN: The full bench of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals votes 9-6 to maintain a block on DOGE's access to sensitive social security records. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Former government IT modernization experts agree: DOGE doesn't need wholesale access to personal records www.eff.org/files/2025/0...

Big new one from me and @ibogost.bsky.social: DOGE has hovered up unprecedented amounts of government data and is pooling it. What can they do with it? They can actualize the surveillance state in ways that were previously unthinkable. An American Panopticon www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

EFF today helped file a motion for a preliminary injunction to end DOGE's illegal access to millions of federal employee records www.eff.org/files/2025/0...

Important though obvious ruling: 9th Circuit rules that California Plaintiffs can sue Shopify for privacy violations in California courts cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

TOMORROW - Webinar - Privacy, DOGE, and Trump 2.0 (Thurs, April 17, 2 PM ET): teachprivacy.com/webinar-priv... @Daniel-Solove.bsky.social chats with @marklemley.bsky.social @mariotrujillo.bsky.social @alexreevegivens.bsky.social

The NLRB whistleblower report on DOGE is linked here by @wbaidlaw.bsky.social whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...

More on this soon, but I did a thing with some cool people: public.tableau.com/views/Regist... Check out our updated consolidated database of #databroker registries -- scraped, cleaned and normalized from the registries in #California (incl. both the AG and #CPPA), #Vermont, #Texas and #Oregon

On Friday, Judge Hollander asked SSA Administrator Dudek to appear at a hearing on April 15. (Left) Tonight, the Trump administration says it will decline to make him available (right) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The independant journalist from Texas who was arrested on bogus charges by some members of the Laredo police and gov't bc she was a well-known critic and who won her First Amendment case at SCOTUS? On remand, 5th Cir., 10-5, says city authorities get QI anyway. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

NMSU: 6 international students' visas revoked by federal government

“New Mexico State University confirmed Tuesday night that six of its international students had their visas revoked by the federal government and could face deportation. The university said it’s unclear why their visas were revoked.” www.krqe.com/news/educati...

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Webinar - Privacy, DOGE, and Trump 2.0 (Thurs, April 17, 2 PM ET) register free: teachprivacy.com/webinar-priv... @daniel-solove.bsky.social chats with @marklemley.bsky.social @mariotrujillo.bsky.social @alexreevegivens.bsky.social

ah i see we have arrived at at the "facial recognition at the pickleball court" stage of late capitalism www.yahoo.com/news/council...

These are all great descriptors for DOGE and OPM, as written by a federal judge: "Kafkaesque" "Illegal, rushed, and dangerous" "rushed and insecure" "crossed a congressionally drawn line in the sand"