These new plans are an important reminder that ICE is still getting its infrastructure in place, and they are relying on being able to co-opt state and local law enforcement officers to carry out their agenda. Fighting the spread of 287(g) agreements is critically important.

Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books

"The epistemological exchange that allows AI-generated imagery [...] to operate as a proxy artifact of photographic history endows it with an artificial relationship between truth and representation that is subtly leveraged in disinformation campaigns."

📝 Our Fall 2025 issue of the SKAT Newsletter is out! See inside for information about SKAT sessions at #ASA2026, a call for award nominations, Q&As with book authors, and more. asaskat.com/wp-content/u...

All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.

"Critics of adversarial fashion say because the surveillance state is so complex and wide-reaching, anti-surveillance fashion is more effective at raising awareness than actually changing the status quo." Yes, I'm one of the critics! #surveillance #resistance

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED. So here:

BREAKING: Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses #BanTheScan @amnestyuk.bsky.social "New York promises to be a sanctuary city, but we’ve created nothing short of a surveillance state." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/

"If they have this much money, this much ability to peer into everyone’s private lives, it raises some fundamental questions about where American democracy is going." @foxcahn.bsky.social #ICE www.aljazeera.com/video/digita...

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Roomba should have been a warning.

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

In my experience, climate committed youth are especially unaware of the impact meat eating has on the planet. “Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels.” #vegetarianism

Quite disturbing unlawful collection of DNA by CBP.

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 62 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Come to hear @mharrisondupre.bsky.social , @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dismantle the misplaced enthusiasm for chatbots in therapy, stay for the literal word sausages.

🚨New Publication Alert: “Silencing Dissent: Surveillance and Police Actions on University Campuses during Pro-Palestinian Protests” 🚨 This article explores #surveillance, #violence, and #dissent on university campuses in the United States. tinyurl.com/4fr95zxy

Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Flock lied to cities and it has come out that federal immigration agents had direct access to Flock's networks. www.9news.com/article/news...

Give @kashhill.bsky.social all the garlands for her dogged, brave reporting yet again. It's shameful, outrageous and enraging that we allow tech companies to deploy AI products that cause harm to people--teenagers, Black fathers, mentally ill persons--every day. Enough is enough.

Paul Lynch’s _Prophet Song_ is an absolutely devastating novel that really got under my skin. It convincingly depicts a gradual slide into #totalitarianism, but on an intimate, human level. @ubisurv.net, if you haven’t read this one, I’m pretty sure you would like it.

OPD is attempting to expand its surveillance system to be able to easily integrate footage from public and private security cameras into one centralized database under the Flock system, a massive AI-powered tracking system that has been metastasizing across the country in the past two years. 1/x

[Publication Alert]: "Leaving Academia: Dual-Career Relationships and Partners’ Attrition from Academic Careers" 22% of aspiring academics who have an academic partner end up leaving academia. Women are most impacted. That's a lot of attrition! #openaccess www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

“Is it surprising that Trump’s stormtroopers are acting with impunity? [No.] But is it shocking to see a man—someone’s family member, someone’s friend, someone’s neighbor—being brutalized by agents who are fully aware they’re being watched and recorded? Yes. And I hope it remains shocking.”

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

I feel very lucky to have gotten a chance to talk about “AI” with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — authors of The AI Con. Enjoy the episode! pca.st/episode/ee9c...

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

📢 Our latest blog post is live! 'Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too' by @corinnejones.bsky.social - about the relationship b/w #consumption, #visibility labours, & social media’s #surveillance economy. Find this & our other great contributions here: medium.com/surveillance...

In the new TMK, we dive into a secret partnership between the New Orleans Police Department and Project NOLA, a private organisation that owns and operates an extensive network of facial recognition cameras covering New Orleans and running live analysis on the public. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz

We're retiring this duplicate account. You can find more official posts here: @4sweb.bsky.social See you over there! Or on LinkedIn or X.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

Feds Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests 🔗 www.404media.co/dhs-flew-pre...

For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online! datasociety.net/events/chall...

Such deployments of the #surveillance state are similar to Iran’s heavy-handed tactics to crush dissent, as @azadehakbari.bsky.social‬ has written about. Glad to see @mguariglia.bsky.social‬’s incisive critique in this piece.

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

I've spent years researching & writing a book on the US government's history of collecting information on individuals. I've seen the dangers and corruption when punitive agencies draw from the same well as those that provide essential public goods. That's why we wrote about what's happening now:

My recent love letter from #NIH. It’s not enough to pull funding, they must insult us too.

As some of us are preparing for international travel. Some helpful tips... boingboing.net/2025/05/19/c...

I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.

A powerful and important thread from a former White House tech policy leader

We are excited to announce the 11th Biennial #Surveillance Studies Network Conference happening 9th-12th June 2026, in Lille, France. It includes a #PhD Colloquium. #SSN2026 is hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social ETHICS & ISTC. Look out for more info soon... And get those abstracts ready!

It was such an honor to “hood” my friend and PhD advisee Will Partin at UNC’s graduation ceremony this past weekend. So proud of the amazing work he’s done and will continue to do.

Good article below, extends the concerns I outlined in @techpolicypress.bsky.social last month — www.techpolicy.press/the-ai-state...

I’ve got to imagine that this project is trying to do something critical, but it just seems like a mistake—on many levels. #surveillance #AI www.hownormalami.eu

Just received a very charming thank you from @torinmonahan.bsky.social's grad seminar students, which reminds me: if you want me to visit to talk about Watching Women this fall, I would be thrilled to chat. Surveillance, suffragettes, women in&against policing! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.