California’s S.B. 524, which puts important guardrails on police using AI to write police reports, has passed through the statehouse. Now it’s time for us to tell Governor Newsom to sign it into law. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Monster Florence’s Petty Cash is out today and I’ve always known it would be vying for my number one. monsterflorenceband.bandcamp.com/album/petty-...

Did you know that the @archive.org has been archiving TV 24 hours a day since 2000, or that it digitizes about 3,000 books a day? Learn more about how @brewster.kahle.org and the Archive team preserve history on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”

Nope. Nope. I refuse to believe it.

“It’s like seeing the eye of Sauron hanging over your city,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @texasobserver.org of the Torre Centinela surveillance nexus rising over Ciudad Juárez. Will it gather information in violation of US laws and share it with US law enforcement?

State Department is going to hire influencers in Ecuador to promote "250 Years of American Excellence" sam.gov/workspace/co...

Can’t wait to learn how wage theft and insider trading will be eliminated by drones and surveillance cameras.

In a victory for transparency, the government contractor Pen-Link agreed to disclose the prices and descriptions of surveillance products that it sold to a local California Sheriff's office. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EVANSTON DEFLOCKS: City just issued a news release announcing that all 19 license plate cameras have been deactivated, and the contract will be fully terminated effective Sept. 26. Story TK.

⚠️ CENSORSHIP NEWS: Lawrence students say their school is preventing them from covering their recent lawsuit alleging the district's use of AI surveillance tools violates their civil rights. loom.ly/_JIH4kI

Remember Robocop? "The entire concept of policing is now just Axon machinery with a little bit of police officer flesh in there,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @westword.com: cameras, TASERs, automated license plate readers, drones, report-writing AI, and more.

I’m honored to be presenting at the Indigenous Media Conference next Friday. Stop by to learn about how tribal police acquire surveillance tech and how border tech is impacting indigenous communities.

With 35 years of experience, EFF is suing the government for overstepping their bounds, using inclusive activism to empower people and educate lawmakers, and creating free open source tools to make the web better. It's only possible with your support: eff.org/vv

Surveillance tech companies like Flock “are serving their investors first, their customers second and members of the public third,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @bloomberg.com. “Their primary goal is not to make it safer, it’s to make money.”

“What we're learning is that two of the country's most popular home improvement stores are contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet coordinated by Flock Safety,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @404media.bsky.social.

I am equally terrified of being buried alive and walking down the Jennifer Hudson Show hallway.

Border Patrol brags about busting SWAT-style into an LA tattoo shop to arrest a dude for.... allegedly spitting at a fed during an immigration raid. www.instagram.com/p/DMyY3h5z-mR/

We just added 100 more Texas agencies using Flock Safety automated license plate readers to the Atlas of Surveillance. As police tech spreads, you can count on EFF to track it and fight for your rights. www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign making a strong play for most-surveilled college campus in the United States. www.thecollegefix.com/drones-camer...

This graphic novel by @maassive.bsky.social and @plutarian2.bsky.social, based on a chamber opera written in a concentration camp, is terrific: a surreal story of defiance in the face of totalitarianism, told with wit and heart.

Did we bring a little opera to San Diego Comic Con? Yes we did.

Outstanding panel on Dark Horse’s 2024 graphic novel “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” by Dave Maass and Patrick Lay (pictured) at SDCC.‬ ‬ @plutarian2.bsky.social ‬‬@maassive.bsky.social

If you’re looking for unique panels at San Diego Comic Con, bring your eyes and ears to ours! We’ve got comics and opera singing! 5pm on Friday in room 4. Thanks @darkhorse.com!

“The more they streamline its use, the more they streamline its abuse. When an officer says, ‘papers please,’ you could choose to say nothing and face the consequences; with face recognition, your options are diminished,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @404media.co.

LISTEN: EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social joins KPFA Radio’s @realcatbrooks.bsky.social to discuss our finding that Axon Draft One – AI that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras – seems deliberately designed to avoid transparency and accountability.

Catch @maassive.bsky.social and I on Friday from 12p-12:50, signing Death Strikes and being charming!

Don't sleep on Eddie Robson.

As a parent, I’m disappointed that Pupstruction isn’t about dogs interrupting police actions. Missed opportunity to be the anti-Paw Patrol.

We're bringing OPERA to San Diego Comic-Con! Come check out the panel about our graphic novel, Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, which will include live performances from the opera that the book is based on. Friday, July 25 at 5pm. comiccon2025.sched.com/event/26zCt/...

Hello #NAHJ25! Don't miss EFF's popup: Mapping the Virtual Wall—we're exposing surveillance tech at the U.S.-Mexico border. Find the map in the Expo Hall in the lower level of the Hilton!

“There is no meaningful way to audit Draft One usage, whether you're a police chief or an independent researcher, because Axon designed it that way.”

We chased the paper trail left by Axon's Draft One software and came back with some tips for getting records on how police use AI to generate incident reports.

After months of investigation EFF is prepared to say: Axon’s AI police report writing tool is even worse for transparency and accountability than we initially thought.

Hey FOIA Punks! Want to see what AI-generated police reports and their paper trails look like? We posted a lot of examples online as well as tips for filing public records requests when Axon Draft One comes to your city. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Axon has gone out of its way to make sure you won't be able to know which parts of a police report were written by an officer and which were written by an AI. Their so-called "audit" trails are almost useless. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @theintercept.com he'd expected Trump’s budget bill "to quadruple-down on wasteful surveillance technology at the border, but I was not expecting language that appears to grant an exclusive license to Anduril to install AI-powered towers.”

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill appears to have made Anduril the only approved vendor for surveillance towers along the border. theintercept.com/2025/07/09/t...

Happy FOIA birthday one and all!

Flock Safety says it’s fixing its tech. But its feature updates do little to fix their mass surveillance model.

The Atlas of Surveillance just added 80 agencies in Oregon, Texas and Washington that are using Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Plug in your city or county to see what surveillance tech cops in your area are deploying.

I’ll tell you what. If you get one of these superhot new EFF shirts or hoodies, I’ll throw in a year’s worth of me exposing and undermining surveillance tech. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

I'm so proud that we're finally able to announce this and get it out into the world. Journalism professors in border states, hit me up!

Are you a US based reporter covering the border with Mexico? We've joined forces with @freedom.press @eff.org and ACOS Alliance to develop a series of free to attend security trainings taking place in Albuquerque, NM and El Paso, TX this August. For more information and to apply: eff.org/jstapp

The Trump Mobile ToS are a laugh a minute www.trumpmobile.com/term-of-use

US Border Patrol in Spokane is acquiring Clearview AI face recognition licenses sam.gov/opp/94b50b55...

CBP is buying new Reconyx covert trail cams and covert ALPRs sam.gov/opp/a3e558c9...

Holy chip! EFF's new 35th anniversary T-shirt and hoodie are soooo dope. supporters.eff.org/donate/EFF35

New Hall of Fame! The conspiracy-laden road trip of Clutch's 1995 self-titled album has held up maybe too well www.treblezine.com/clutch-self-...

I wrote a thing for @treblezine.bsky.social about revisiting Clutch’s now 30-year-old second album in age when conspiracy culture has gone mainstream. www.treblezine.com/clutch-self-...