Who owns this network of secret license plate readers in San Diego and Imperial counties? From Border and Immigration Reporter @sofiareports.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2026/02/11/h...

“Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Listen to the dog father

Especially in light of this breach discord.com/press-releas...

Obeying in advance. Shameful.

“The department had been tracking Ashworth’s movement around Lenexa using the city’s license plate reader system.”

FBI searching Fulton County elections office, per Reuters www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Katie Porter is running for CA governor and won’t say “abolish ice”

“it remains unclear if Meta may have complied with DHS’s requests if account holders were not able to legally fight to quash them”

“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”

The FBI's raid of the home of @washingtonpost.com reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social Wednesday is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s multipronged war on press freedom. Read our statement: freedom.press/issues/fbi-i...

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

Wegman's is now collecting biometric data from anyone entering its two NYC locations gothamist.com/news/nyc-weg...

If the Trump-appointed judge agrees, it could impact abortion access nationwide—including in states with protective laws. www.jezebel.com/josh-hawleys...

NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Online age verification isn't like showing ID at a bar. It's more invasive, affects far more transactions, and poses serious privacy, security, and free speech risks that in-person checks never do. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Big Brother is watching 👀 Justice Department leadership has directed the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism” by the start of next year Ana Ceballos and Michael Wilner www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children. Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

"If they can violate patient privacy protections for specific types of health care, that doesn't affect just trans people. That affects everyone,” said @queerdoc.bsky.social founder Crystal Beal. The subpoena also sought insurance billing records—but QueerDoc only takes cash.

"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group. NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Research subjects w/ electrodes implanted to help advance understanding of paralysis want more data protections. Neuralink to begin implanting 20,000 a year, including for improved cognitive function. Scientists can now read BCI subjects' inner speech, raising stakes therecord.media/neural-data-...

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law therecord.media/chat-control...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise by uploading a critical government database of citizen's data to Amazon's cloud.

BREAKING: Denmark summons top U.S. diplomat after the national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.

“Why would it be something you wouldn't consider criminal as to your own personal decision with your partner, but, as to Lizelle, that personal decision is now homicide?” the ACLU's Lauren Johnson told Jezebel. www.jezebel.com/texas-da-who...

1/Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, seems interested in making women 2nd class citizens. A tweet he posted late last week isn’t getting nearly enough attention. In any other administration, there would have been swift calls for his resignation. Here, mostly crickets.

New from 404 Media: Congress has launched a formal investigation into Flock after our articles revealing cops were performing lookups for ICE in its AI-cameras, and that a cop searched the nation's cameras for a woman who had an abortion www.404media.co/congress-lau...

Federal agents use fake job offer, rental truck to trap day laborers in LA raid – a Penske rental truck became the centerpiece of a controversial Westlake Home Depot immigration sting that concealed immigration enforcement agents inside the vehicle. lapublicpress.org/2025/08/fede...

Researchers in California contacted data brokers in their state to exercise their rights under the California Privacy Protection Act. Many didn’t reply, while others threw up barriers. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/data-brokers...

EFF fights surveillance…and we do so in 14 languages in our educational resource, Surveillance Self-Defense.

On the pros of Defund The Police, I think about this article from time to time.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

When ‘Female’ is a Forbidden Word, Women's Colleges Face a Unique Challenge An Office for Civil Rights complaint filed against Smith College raises questions about how women's colleges will navigate Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans campaigns. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GN57SL

The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants released from immigration custody to instead detain them in state-run prison camps. They are calling this — no joke — "shelter in a detention environment." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

lmao

The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need.

They're doing it under the guise of searching for healthcare fraud, so they're intimidating providers and circumventing HIPAA As usual, they've chosen a test case they think Dems will be too cowardly to challenge. This WILL be used against abortion providers if they get away with it here

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.