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Hello! đ Here to connect and share our work on resisting digital era mass surveillance.
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Our 2022 report, âAmerican Dragnet,â was featured in a New York Times article titled âICEâs New Surveillance State Isnât Tracking Only Immigrants,â which discusses ICEâs extensive surveillance practices that are costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Read the full article here:
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Opinion | ICEâs New Surveillance State Isnât Tracking Only Immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/ice-surveillance.html
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Our Executive Director Emily Tucker was featured in a Frankfurter Allgemeine article discussing the Trump administrationâs reliance on tech to facilitate ICEâs mass deportation efforts. She tells Frankfurter Allgemeine this use of technology is âfar beyond what is justifiable.â Read the article:
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ICE: Ăber welche Ăberwachungstechnologien Trumps EinwanderungsbehĂśrde verfĂźgt
Die umstrittene EinwanderungsbehĂśrde ICE verfĂźgt Ăźber ein wachsendes Arsenal an Ăberwachungstechnologien. Palantir spielt eine zentrale Rolle â ist aber bei Weitem nicht der einzige Zulieferer. Es sin...
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/ice-ueber-welche-ueberwachungstechnologien-trumps-einwanderungsbehoerde-verfuegt-200492307.html
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Join GWâs Health Law and Policy Program and GWâs Center for Law on Friday, February 13th for âPrivate Matters: Health, Technology, and Battles Over Personal Data.â Featuring our Director of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson, the event will explore pressing issues on privacy in healthcare.
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Last fall, local high school student Elina Jadhav reached out to our Executive Director Emily Tucker about a research project she was working on pertaining to the use of surveillance technology by police.
8 days ago
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Our Faculty Advisor Paul Ohmâs (
@paulohm.bsky.social
) essay, âToward Compliance Zero: AI & the Vanishing Costs of Regulatory Complianceâ was featured in a
@lawfaremedia.org
article discussing the potential of AI-automated regulatory compliance & the implications for future AI policy.
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AI Will Automate Compliance. How Can AI Policy Capitalize?
AI may soon automate regulatory compliance itselfâmaking regulations contingent on whether compliance can be reliably completed by AI tools.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-will-automate-compliance.-how-can-ai-policy-capitalize
8 days ago
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Our Executive Director Emily Tucker was quoted in a column by Tressie McMillan Cottom from the New York Times about signs that ICE is looking to collect data from nearly every facet of Americansâ lives. Read the article here:
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Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/opinion/ice-surveillance-protesters.html
10 days ago
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Lawfare
10 days ago
Join Lawfare,
@georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
, and the
@gtowntechlaw.bsky.social
on Friday, March 6 for a event featuring leading scholars, practitioners, and former government officials marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. RSVP here:
lawfaremedia.org/ecpaevent
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Installing Updates to ECPA
Join us on Friday, March 6, from 8:30am to 2:00pm for a one-day convening marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Enacted four decades ago, ECPA continues to ...
https://lawfaremedia.org/ecpaevent
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12 days ago
Dominoes are falling, per
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On January 30th, we cohosted Georgetown Law Technology Reviewâs symposium: Data, Power, and Authoritarianism. The Symposium featured a fireside chat with our founder, Alvaro Bedoya, & our Faculty Advisors Julie Cohen, Paul Ohm, Laura Moy, & one of our Advisory Board members, Ulises A. Mejias.
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Our Director of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson spoke with Rolling Stone's Alex Ashley about how the Trump administration has been using a widely-ignored federal law from the Bush administration as the basis for legal DNA collection at immigration screenings. Read the article here:
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Trump's DNA Dragnet: The Law That Turns Us All Into Suspects
Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches far beyond the border.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-dna-dragnet-immigration-policy-biometric-surveillance-1235487564
17 days ago
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Our ED Emily Tucker spoke with Semafor about how tech can be used to monitor the govt. & hold it accountable. âThe technologies used by the government & by individuals are not comparable â âitâs like saying they have an atom bomb, & you have a pen knife,â Tucker says.â Read the article here:
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Clashes between ICE and protesters come down to the technology
Activists are creating text alert systems and tracking websites to monitor the whereabouts of federal agents.
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/30/2026/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology
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Our Director of Research and Advocacy Stevie Glaberson recently spoke with MPR Newsâ Nina Mioni about how ICEâs surveillance tools enable the tracking of people in Minnesota. Read the article here:
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How is ICE tracking people in Minnesota? An expert explains
The federal agents trying to meet the governmentâs mass deportation goals have new tools to help them find people to arrest and deport.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/08/how-is-ice-tracking-people-in-minnesota-an-expert-explains
27 days ago
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We are partnering with the Georgetown Law Technology Review to host the 2026 Symposium next week. The Symposium features our founder Alvaro Bedoya, our Faculty Advisors Julie Cohen, Paul Ohm, Laura Moy, and one of our Advisory Board members Ulises A. Mejias.
29 days ago
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Our Postdoctoral Fellow Marianna Poyares and Executive Director Emily Tucker were quoted in an Inkstick Media article that explores how surveillance technologies and the misregulation of AI-supported platforms target and harm many immigrant communities in the United States. Read the article here:
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What Will Unchecked Artificial Intelligence Mean for Immigration?
Critics say the Trump administrationâs immigration agenda is a ânightmareâ brought about by mass surveillance and artificial intelligence.
https://inkstickmedia.com/what-will-unchecked-artificial-intelligence-mean-for-immigration/
29 days ago
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Our ED Emily Tucker was quoted in a Financial Times (
@financialtimes.com
) article on the Trump administrationâs expanding use of commercial and government data to track and deport immigrants. Read the full article here:
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Trumpâs immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
https://ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
âThe lawsuit claims that the use of Flock cameras constitutes an illegal search and violates his 4th Amendment right to privacy and association. The city has also broken California law barring out-of-state law enforcement from using such data, Mooreâs lawsuit alleges.â
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Retired teacher fights SFPDâs âOrwellianâ camera surveillance
The police department is being sued over its use of Flock cameras that record license plates.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/29/san-francisco-police-flock-license-plate-cameras-lawsuit/
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Last month, DHS issued a notice of its intent to change the agency rule on DNA collection to give itself essentially unlimited authority to take DNA from anyone. 48 members of Congress signed a letter opposing the rule. You have until Jan 2 to submit your comment.
drive.google.com/file/d/1tqSA...
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Clarke - DHS Biometrics Public Comment Letter - 12.19.25.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqSAMA-c-CUOi8bjTnLiyNrXz0r3u0xN/view
about 2 months ago
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This story from
@rollingstone.com
draws extensively on two of our reports, Raiding the Genome and American Dragnet. The US government is building a vast genetic surveillance apparatus in the name of immigration enforcement. Great quotes in here from
@sglabe.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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Our ED, Emily Tucker, talked to
@madisyn-writes.bsky.social
about why many of the folks who helped advocate for the Maryland Driver Privacy Act are now worried that the state hasnât actually been following the law since it went into effect.
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2 months ago
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Our Associate Emerald Tse was featured in a Documented article about Palantirâs development of surveillance tech that targets immigrant communities & advocates. "These surveillance technology tools arenât new, theyâre just more powerful than they were before," said Tse. Read the whole article here:
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Immigrant Advocates Are Targeting Tech â and Palantir Is Public Enemy No. 1
Activists and immigration advocates are seeking to bring Palantir's elusive digital infrastructure into the public eye and are urging states to divest from the company.
https://documentedny.com/2025/10/27/palantir-immigrationos-data-surveillance/
2 months ago
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"States should ignore this ridiculous EO" as well as any similar attempts to preempt legislatively. The president's billionaire cronies have made him understand that controlling data means controlling resources means controlling people. This EO is a declaration that we must all submit.
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2 months ago
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Our Director of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson spoke with Stephen Rhode and one of our Advisory Board members Heidi Boghosian for their podcast Law & Disorder. They discussed our Raiding the Genome report and 2025 update. Listen to the whole episode here:
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Law and Disorder November 10, 2025 | Law and Disorder Radio
https://lawanddisorder.org/2025/11/law-and-disorder-november-10-2025/
2 months ago
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Earlier this year, our ED Emily Tucker wrote a perspective piece for Tech Policy Press urging for hard limits on the scale of corporate data collection, titled âTo Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data.â Read her article here:
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To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press
Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AIâreal limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
https://www.techpolicy.press/to-have-democracy-we-must-contest-data/
2 months ago
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Our ED Emily Tucker recently spoke with
@npr.org
's Jude Joffe-Block about how ICE surveillance violates privacy and civil rights. Read the article here:
www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...
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2 months ago
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Our former Senior Associate Clarence Okoh co-wrote an article for Tech Policy Press detailing the risks associated with the implementation of AI-powered surveillance tools in schools, titled "Unproven Vape Detection Tech Expands Surveillance in Schools, Threatening Privacy." Read it here:
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Unproven Vape Detection Tech Expands Surveillance in Schools, Threatening Privacy | TechPolicy.Press
The marketing of AI-driven surveillance solutions to schools is outpacing administratorsâ capacity to establish good policies, says a team of researchers.
https://www.techpolicy.press/unproven-vape-detection-tech-expands-surveillance-in-schools-threatening-privacy/
3 months ago
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Check it out: The Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race is holding a discussion TOMORROW. Join for a discussion on how the US surveillance apparatus built on migrant data extractivism extends to all of society. Register here:
go.gwu.edu/mwwir
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3 months ago
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In September we released an update to our 2024 report, âRaiding the Gnome,â showing that CBP has taken DNA from ~2,000 U.S. citizens without any judicial oversight. The program is illegal and impacts everyone. Hear more from our Director of Research & Advocacy:
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3 months ago
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Our Senior Associate Clarence Okoh recently co-authored an article titled, âBaltimore County must protect Black children from dangerous tech. Hereâs how.â The article describes how the discrepancies in AI detection systems in schools are putting children at risk as opposed to keeping them safe.
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OP-ED: Baltimore County must protect Black children from dangerous A.I. Here's how.
Big Tech is known to âmove fast and break things.â But who is left in pieces? Residents in Baltimore County recently witnessed a new technology nearly shatter a childâs life.  Last week, a squad of p...
https://baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-county-must-protect-black-children-from-dangerous-ai-heres-how/
3 months ago
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Our ED Emily Tucker is speaking on the âResponsible AI and Privacyâ panel hosted by Good Systems at UT-Austin this Wednesday 11/19 at 10 AM CST. Join for a discussion about where privacy stands in the technological revolution of AI! Register here (Zoom available):
responsibleai2025.splashthat.com
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3 months ago
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How do news media, AI and data governance shape the information we all rely on? đ Nordicom recently published âInformation Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The State of Knowledge on News Media, AI, and Data Governance.â
3 months ago
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Read this letter from Sen. Wyden and 39 other lawmakers to state governors warning them that they are sharing their residents' data with ICE.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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congressional-DMV-ICE-letter-to-dem-governors
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26223081-congressional-dmv-ice-letter-to-dem-governors/
3 months ago
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This Fall, we welcomed Ayah Eldosougi, our new Fritz Fellow, and Taman Mohamed, our new Justice Fellow. They recently sat down to talk privacy, power, and podcasts. Read their conversation here:
medium.com/@georgetownp...
3 months ago
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Join us in congratulating our Director of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson for being selected to join the 2025-26 cohort of Gender+ Justice Initiative Fellows!
4 months ago
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Our ED Emily Tucker spoke with
@politico.com
âs Alfred Ng about ICE's new contract for skip tracing for todayâs Morning Tech newsletter. âItâs surveillance that targets people that are typically hard to find in the databases that already exist,â said Tucker.
4 months ago
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đ˘đ˘đ˘ Donât miss this great event happening TODAY! Join us to learn how 5 experts have made their own path in the privacy field.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
Corporations call it "privacy-preserving," but this new AI tech isn't all that it seems. Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age:
datasociety.net/library/the-...
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Last month, we published new research about CBPâs collection of DNA from US citizens. In a new blog post, our Associate
@ehtse.bsky.social
writes about the widespread risks of genetic surveillance and our ongoing research into DHSâs DNA collection program. Read it here:
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4 months ago
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đ¨TOMORROW! Curious about the implications that technology access has on the economic and social participation of communities marginalized by the structural barriers of inequity? Dr. Nicol Turner Lee will discuss her book, âDigitally Invisible: How the Internet is Creating the New Underclass.â
4 months ago
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đ˘ Georgetown students!! Interested in a career in privacy? Join us on October 20 to hear from professionals whoâve found a range of pathways to their careers in privacy.
4 months ago
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Digital Inclusion Week is here and we have an event for you! Dr. Nicol Turner Lee of
@brookings.edu
will join us to discuss what digital equity can look like as the importance of internet access in the US for economic participation continues to increase.
5 months ago
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Cuando publicamos nuestro informe de 2024 âAsalto al Genoma,â sospechĂĄbamos que agentes del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) podĂan estar coleccionando ADN de ciudadanos estadounidenses. Ahora podemos confirmar que esas sospechas eran correctas.
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https://www.raidingthegenome.org
5 months ago
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DHS DNA collection âis illegal, unconstitutional, and deeply corrosive to civil rights and liberties. No amount of coerced âconsentâ can make it otherwise,â says Privacy Center Dir. of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson.
5 months ago
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When we published our 2024 report âRaiding the Genome,â we suspected that DHS agents might be taking DNA from US citizens. We can now confirm that those suspicions were correct.
www.raidingthegenome.org
5 months ago
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5 months ago
They promised cheap rent They gave us culture war
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Happening tomorrow! Interested in scholarship surrounding emerging technology and social responsibility? Join us as Professor Ryan Calo dives into his new book, âLaw and Technology: A Methodical Approachâ!
5 months ago
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Last week
@amcommmedia.bsky.social
hosted âExpanding Surveillance of Immigrants â At What Cost?â to explore how the US govtâs growing surveillance arsenal is used beyond immigration enforcement.
americancommunitymedia.org/media-briefi...
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Expanding Surveillance of Immigrants â At What Cost?
From DMV databases to cellphone tracking, U.S. surveillance has grown from immigration enforcement into a digital dragnet. Our panel explores risks, policies, and the safeguards essential to democracy...
https://americancommunitymedia.org/media-briefings/expanding-surveillance-of-immigrants-at-what-cost/
5 months ago
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En 2024 publicamos âAsalto al Genoma: CĂłmo el Gobierno de los EEUU Abusa de Sus Facultades en Materia de InmigraciĂłn para Acumular ADN para Futuras Acciones Policiales.â Hemos seguido investigando el programa de recolecciĂłn de ADN del DHS. Hoy compartimos algunas novedades.
raidingthegenome.org
5 months ago
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A book talk you donât want to miss! Professor at
@uwlaw.bsky.social
@rcalo.bsky.social
, will talk about his new book âLaw and Technology: A Methodical Approach,â which explores what scholars and society can do about emerging technology.
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Did you just read about how traditional Medicare is about to require prior approval - and theyâre going to hire **AI companies** to dole out those approvals? Then you need to learn about Dr. Gary Bent.
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