BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns Meta Plan For Facial Recognition Smart Glasses "“This is beyond dystopian and a new privacy low even for Meta." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #Meta #SmartGlasses #RayBan #Oakley www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD “Domain Awareness System 2.0” “This will further enable federal agencies precisely when New Yorkers’ constitutional rights are under attack by the Trump administration,” said S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl. www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app used by ICE, relies on biometric tools from the vendor NEC. The app is not just an isolated site for identification––it's part of a vast biometric infrastructure for surveillance. Read more: www.biometricupdate.com/202601/ice-f...

AP: "'We are glad for any information that can lead to her being found,' [STOP's Michelle Dahl] said. At the same time, Dahl added, 'We should...be alarmed over the privacy implications that are at stake...'"

Join the fight to stop surveillance! You can support S.T.O.P. as a charity runner in upcoming races, including the NYC United Half Marathon on March 15th. Visit stopspying.org/marathons to learn more. #Marathon #UnitedHalf #NYCHalf

New reporting shows local police are tapping school security cameras and license-plate reader systems to assist federal immigration enforcement, raising serious concerns about student privacy and surveillance. Read more here:

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns Newly Revealed NYPD Fake Social Media Vendor “It’s long past time for New York to unfriend NYPD’s fake social media bots." - S.T.O.P. Exec. Director Michelle Dahl #NYPD #NTREPID www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

Ring's Super Bowl ad showed how tech companies make dragnets part of daily life. As ICE collaborates with Amazon, bringing AI into Ring's vast camera network will only bolster federal agencies' ability to track and target communities under surveillance. #AmazonRing #ICE mashable.com/article/ring...

S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl responds to potential use of AI cameras in NYC subways: “New Yorkers are generally sleepwalking into this surveillance state, and it's time for us to wake up and take action on it.” therecord.media/nyc-explores...

“NY sanctuary laws are not enough currently to prevent collusion between local police and ICE, and we need to ensure there is no data sharing occurring whatsoever among those agencies,” says S.T.O.P.’s Will Owen. Read more. documentedny.com/2026/02/05/n...

Austin is ringing the alarm against surveillance technology -- and taking a stand by proposing new limitations to facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology. Read more here:

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns MTA AI Gate Pilot Tracking Alleged Fare Evasion "The last thing MTA riders need is more surveillance, especially AI cameras." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl #MTA #AI www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

Join the fight to stop surveillance! You can support S.T.O.P. as a charity runner in upcoming races. Learn more at stopspying.org/marathons. #Marathon #NYCUnitedHalf

S.T.O.P. Founder-in-Residence and former Executive Director Albert Fox Cahn’s new book, Move Slow and Upgrade, is out today! And it’s one of New Scientist’s best new books of February. Congrats, @foxcahn.bsky.social! www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Move Slow And Upgrade is officially out in the world! If you want to learn how we can fight back against the broken “move fast and break things” mindset and actually fix big problems in tech, finance, and democracy, pick up your copy today! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

ICE and the FBI are expanding facial recognition into protest investigations. This is a dangerous erosion of privacy and free expression that endangers all of our right to privacy, free expression, and the right to dissent. Read more here:

The FBI is using facial recognition to identify ICE protestors from YouTube and social media — a chilling escalation of surveillance against the constitutional right to protest. @thomasbrewster.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake for protest and privacy rights:

In a new op-ed for Tech Policy Press, S.T.O.P. Legal Director Darío Maestro examines how the EU's "Chat Control" regulation risks mandating mass message scanning, undermining encryption, and putting the EU-US Data Privacy Framework at risk. Read more.

“Palantir tools are ICE’s digital henchmen,” said Will Owen, communications director at the non-profit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, in a statement to the Guardian. “Their revenue may be up thanks to Trump, but no one is buying that they hold ICE accountable.”

“In these times, we ought to assume the worst-case scenario: that every technological layer added to our democratic institutions has the potential to be hostile to civil liberties.” Read more.

ICE agents are using biometric surveillance and location tracking to target immigrants and erode civil liberties. Read more from PBS. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

“The latest Department of Homeland Security AI inventory, released on January 28, reveals more than 200 AI use cases that are deployed or in development at DHS and its component agencies.” www.techpolicy.press/dhs-ai-surve...

For example, folks are understandably concerned about the surveillance tech that Palantir is providing to ICE But "boycott Palantir" is not a real tactic. They are not a consumer-facing company Follow orgs w/ a strategy @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social

I really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years. Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it talk to us

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns $4.5M ICE Iris Scanner Contract "Before killing Renee Good, Jonathan Ross recorded her on his cellphone." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #ICE #IrisScanning #Surveillance #BiometricSurveillance www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

We’ve updated our call tool too: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

“In a Saturday thread on Slack discussing [Alex] Pretti’s killing, Palantir workers questioned both the ethics and the business logic of continuing the company’s work with ICE,” while Palantir’s internal wiki states their commitment to providing “the best software for the job.”

“We have a nice little database, and now you’re considered domestic terrorists,” said an ICE officer. More at Futurism.

#NY4All would protect due process and keep communities safe. But this week, Gov. Hochul claimed the system is “working.” It’s not. S.T.O.P. joined @thenyic.bsky.social in Albany pushing for action. Now it’s your turn. nyic.quorum.us/campaign/NY4...

How can you trust a word this agency says? We need to use our local and state resources for good, not to help tear families apart. We need to uphold due process for everyone. We need the New York for All Act. Pass #NY4All now.

This is how ICE "works": ➡️A secret ICE memo lets agents break into homes without a judicial warrant: apnews.com/article/ice-... ➡️ICE agents used a 5-year-old child as "bait," and now both he and his father's whereabouts are unknown: mprnews.org/story/2026/0... 3/

In Nassau Co + others ICE has officially “deputized” local officers to act as deportation agents, seizing neighbors on the streets. Nassau alone has turned 3,000 people over to ICE. 1 person- Santos Banegas, DIED as a direct result: longislandadvocate.com/death-in-ice... What about this works? 2/

@governor.ny.gov - "it's working?" 🤨 Please be serious and honest. NY is facing a crisis: over a million New Yorkers live in counties that have signed 287g mass deportation agreements with ICE. Others are colluding in secret. You could end this with the stroke of a pen #NY4All 1/

“Trafficking in individuals’ personal information has become a booming industry in the absence of a federal data privacy law,” writes the Electronic Privacy Information Center (@epic.org) in a new report. Read more:

The ICE agent who killed Renee Good had his cell phone camera pointed at her. Officers are using facial recognition tools to target immigrant communities and undermine the right to privacy, enabling federal overreach with no accountability and threatening immigrants’ civil liberties. More at CNN.

SCOTUS will review geofence warrants — a tool that gives police mass location data on everyone in an area. S.T.O.P. has been fighting for NYS to ban these invasive warrants for years. More: www.stopspying.org/location-tra... 📱🔒

📣Applications are still open for our Legal Director position! We’re looking for a seasoned litigator to lead S.T.O.P.’s legal work challenging surveillance, defending civil rights, and standing with impacted communities. Remote, with preference for NYC-based applicants.

40+ tech and justice orgs including @18millionrising.bsky.social @accessnow.org @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @ultraviolet.bsky.social demand lawmakers take swift action to stem the tide on ICE violence and the tech and data spending that help it spread! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...

Watch Al Jazeera’s report on the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System and how S.T.O.P. is challenging it in court. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ox...

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an ICE raid. Both were wrong. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

SCOOP: In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

“When you have these opaque, expansive, real-time crime centers gathering information about our lives… it’s open to error, misinterpretation and abuse.” — Albert Fox Cahn The Flock/Fuses incident in Dallas is exactly what this kind of unaccountable surveillance architecture leads to. bit.ly/49FOgM8

When tech outpaces the law, consumers lose control. NYC stores from Macy’s to Whole Foods are using facial recognition — often without clear notice or strong regulation. It’s time for privacy laws that protect people, not just data. 👉 bit.ly/4b0nr7w

Your face is not a barcode. NYC stores like Wegmans are collecting biometric data on shoppers—faces, eyes, even voices. This is surveillance, not “innovation.” We’re joining #BanTheScan to stop biometric surveillance in stores and public spaces. bit.ly/3NHI6DC

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

NEW: Completely unredacted Flock audit logs have been released to the public by numerous police departments and in some cases include details on millions of Flock license plate searches made by thousands of police departments from around the country.

“Any AI software that claims to flag so-called unusual behavior is pure pseudoscience… New Yorkers need safe, reliable transit, not magical thinking from Silicon Valley.” This tech fuels profiling of Black, Indigenous & disabled riders. statescoop.com/civil-rights...

📣Applications are still open for our Legal Director position! We’re looking for a seasoned litigator to lead S.T.O.P.’s legal work challenging surveillance, defending civil rights, and standing with impacted communities. Remote, with preference for NYC-based applicants.

Biometric surveillance in grocery stores turns a basic necessity into a privacy hazard for communities who should feel safe shopping for food. www.bonappetit.com/story/rfk-fo...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...