BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Report Shows Family Surveillance Apps Used for Probation, Enable Abuse "We don’t make our children and partners wear ankle monitors, but demanding they use family surveillance apps isn’t all that different." @corinneworthington.bsky.social www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

"The idea of human agents breaking down our doors is terrifying enough, but adding this army of robot ICE agents will only make a creepy nightmare even worse." @foxcahn.bsky.social #ICE www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

"While we know about this one case today, we have no idea how many of the thousands of other New Yorkers arrested with this technology were wrongly accused." @foxcahn.bsky.social #FacialRecognition #NYPD atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/17/n...

"This is a terrifying betrayal of Syracuse residents. These cameras are creepy enough when misused by police, but this sort of attack on immigrant communities is indefensible." @foxcahn.bsky.social #Flock #CBP #ICE centralcurrent.org/federal-immi...

#FacialRecognition endangers New Yorkers every day, recently leading to the false arrest of Trevis Williams, a Black father from Brooklyn. This racist tech has no place ANYWHERE in our city. Contact Speaker Adams today to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425. www.banthescan.org/outreach

#FacialRecognition endangers New Yorkers every day, recently leading to the false arrest of Trevis Williams, a Black father from Brooklyn. This racist tech has no place ANYWHERE in our city. Contact Speaker Adams today to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425. www.banthescan.org/outreach

NIRH has created the Repro and Data Privacy Policy Lab - a cross-movement collaboration, bringing together repro orgs and data privacy orgs to address the growing threat of repro health data misuse. Our new partners are: 🌟 Amplify Georgia 🌟 SWOP LA 🌟 @stopspyingny.bsky.social 🌟 @newamerica.org

NIRH has created the Repro and Data Privacy Policy Lab - a cross-movement collaboration, bringing together repro orgs and data privacy orgs to address the growing threat of repro health data misuse. Our new partners are: 🌟 Amplify Georgia 🌟 SWOP LA 🌟 @stopspyingny.bsky.social 🌟 @newamerica.org

Our groups @citizensunionny.bsky.social @commoncauseny.bsky.social @freedom.press @legalaidnyc.bsky.social @lwvnyc.bsky.social @nyclu.org @nypirg.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social urge City Council to pass @galeabrewer.bsky.social landmark NYC FOIL bill buff.ly/ocwTgBk

New: ICE just spent millions of dollars on facial recognition technology to track down people the agency believes have 'assaulted' law enforcement officers. Comes as charges are dropped around the country because officers misrepresented what actually happened www.404media.co/ice-spends-m...

“We hail this ruling; instead of working with ICE to further criminalize immigrants, the Mayor should be working to shut down the deadly Rikers Island jail complex and protect all New Yorkers." -- @melaniedominguez.bsky.social #ShutRikers

"At a moment when the government is charging protesters who throw food with felony assault, it's clear that this tech will just become another way to silence dissent." - @foxcahn.bsky.social #ICE #FacialRecognition #ClearviewAI www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

"This is dramatically expanding the ability of police to come into the most private spheres we have." - @foxcahn.bsky.social on the rise of police #drone use. Watch here: www.foxnews.com/video/637780...

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns ICE Contract For Previously Banned Phone Hacking Tech “Paragon will allow ICE to turn our phones into real-time wiretaps." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #ICE #Paragon www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

"A lot of these predictive tools can create unintended errors where certain communities are underserved or misunderstood because of how the model missed or wrongly accounted for individuals’ risks in that community." @foxcahn.bsky.social #AI www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/a...

"What I want people to really realize is that this is not just a computer. There is human intervention. The idea that there is some sort of objective algorithm is misplaced and, certainly in this case, that's not what's happening."

"Because of the bias in who gets arrested in New York, it's going to disproportionately target Black and Latino and Asian individuals." - @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition abc7ny.com/post/man-fal...

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man "Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

I had Albert Fox Cahn from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project on my Free Speech Fridays series to talk about suing the NYPD, landlords using facial recognition to raise ur rent, why “child safety” laws aren’t about child safety, and MORE!

The @brennancenter.org obtained a letter the ‪ @nyccomptroller.bsky.social and @advocate.nyc.gov sent to the Mayor on Tuesday asking an important question: What’s going on with the NYPD Inspector General’s office?

"Surveillance does not make a university safer. It chills free speech, endangers students who speak out against injustice and it’s really essential for campuses to protect their communities from the threat." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen apnews.com/article/coll...

In The Intercept, Shawn Musgrave reports ICE is using wire transfer data to track immigrants for deportation. Court records show agents traced remittances from Hawai‘i to Mexico to locate and arrest one man, turning financial transactions into surveillance tools. Read more: shorturl.at/4WtuK

BREAKING: More than 30 human rights organizations sent a letter to university administrators nationwide urging them to dismantle harmful surveillance + protect free speech on campus.

@montgomery.bsky.social, in his TechScape newsletter for ‪The Guardian‬, highlights the booming surveillance industry: Palantir, Geo Group, and CoreCivic profit from Trump’s immigration crackdown, while Microsoft’s cloud enables mass monitoring of Palestinians. Read more: shorturl.at/cKjgK

Flock’s license plate cameras aren’t just tracking drivers. They’re powering ICE raids, abortion investigations, and even tying data to brokers for “person lookup.” As the @aclu.org warns, mass surveillance always expands beyond its original scope. Read more: www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

YouTube’s new AI “age checks” claim to protect kids, but in practice they push invasive ID scans and surveillance onto millions of users—raising the risks without fixing the core problem. Read more: www.thewrap.com/creatorverse...

So excited to be able to partner with the amazing folks at @proton.me (especially Chris Cannucciari and Julia Jade Duffy) for this project on privacy and mass surveillance! youtu.be/QpFw7dk9l-0?...

The Adams administration won't tell us whether it informed NYCHA that it was linking the housing authority's cameras to its surveillance hub, where it's doing so, where it plans to do so, why three separate agencies initially denied doing so, or how it will use the footage.

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns Court Decision Granting DOGE Sweeping Surveillance Power “This so-called department is efficient at ruining our democracy and nothing else." - S.T.O.P. Communications Director Will Owen #DOGE #Trump www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

“This isn’t just creepy. It might be illegal. New York law already bans compelled fingerprinting of employees. Facial recognition is effectively creating a fingerprint of your face." @foxcahn.bsky.social #WorkerSurveillance #FacialRecognition nypost.com/2025/08/09/t...

If #TeaDatingAdvice is a safe space for women online, why is it so easy to hack? In our latest op-ed, @foxcahn.bsky.social warns against the rise of facial surveillance and ID-check mandates on Tea and other apps like it. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

BREAKING: STOP Condemns Adams’ NYCHA Surveillance Through Public Broadband “Using public broadband does not mean anyone invited NYPD into their homes." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #NYCHA #NYPD #EricAdams www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

@foxcahn.bsky.social: Citizen is a "really dangerous platform that has a history of fueling misinformation about high-profile crimes," allowing the NYPD to "control the feed [and] the narrative" in a way that does not reflect the realities of public safety in NYC. Read more here: shorturl.at/daRMm

NYC’s surveillance state goes far beyond the NYPD. Our new report with Morgan State reveals how daily tech — from OMNY to Citi Bike — feeds a system that threatens privacy and targets marginalized communities. Read more here: www.amny.com/news/privacy...

Albany can’t wait until January to fight Trump and ICE. Read more in our new op-ed by S.T.O.P. legal intern Sarah Roth. citylimits.org/opinion-alba...

BREAKING: S.T.O.P., Morgan State University Release ‘People’s Handbook’ of NYC Surveillance "We’re calling on urban planners to make smart decisions when it comes to so-called smart cities." - STOP Research Director Eleni Manis www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

“Flying is so fraught that even when people have rights they’re terrified to exercise them" - @foxcahn.bsky.social

"We all know online dating can be toxic, but the solution isn’t more surveillance.” @foxcahn.bsky.social on the dangers of biometric verification after a major data breach at Tea, a dating app that collected thousands of user selfies. Read more: shorturl.at/I7zHu

Ban The Scan! Facial recognition has no place in our homes and public spaces. Call City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and ask her to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425 TODAY! #BanTheScan www.banthescan.org/outreach

S.T.O.P. condemns the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan as a “Big Tech Bailout” that would shield AI firms from accountability and preempt state laws—putting civil rights at risk in policing, housing, and employment. Read more here: shorturl.at/ypgDI

Senior Legal Fellow Darío Maestro’s op-ed in Crain's New York Business outlines how the Secure Jobs Act would establish critical limits on electronic workplace surveillance—requiring transparency, data access, and human oversight in algorithmic decision-making. Read more here: shorturl.at/sPB3S

ChatGPT promised to forget user conversations. A federal court ended that promise. Learn more about how OpenAI is preserving your data following this ruling in Senior Legal Fellow Dario Maestro's new op-ed. #ChatGPT #OpenAI @thehill.com

S.T.O.P. condemns Eric Adams’ launch of a New York City portal on Citizen, the controversial crowdsourced surveillance app. Apps like Citizen fuel racial profiling and fear, not safety. shorturl.at/lC081

Legal Fellow Jason Taper joined Today’s Verdict to discuss the recent federal arrest of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and what it reveals about ICE enforcement in the city. www.youtube.com/watch?v=svh1...

"There is a huge amount of risk that the data that is collected in the privacy of our own cars will be used against us, whether by law enforcement or immigration officials or simply being monetized without our consent.” - @foxcahn.bsky.social

“Militarized police tech is not a toy, it’s a threat to our safety and democracy...As police deploy drones over more of our cities, capturing more images from our homes and private lives, they try to promote it like a high-tech gadget and avoid the hard questions.” - @foxcahn.bsky.social

“The NYPD keeps using these incredibly disturbing companies to spy on New Yorkers, while hiding that surveillance from the public and violating New York City law in the process" - @foxcahn.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/n...

“New Yorkers deserve real safety.” Comms Director Will Owen condemns Gov. Hochul's "cartoon cop" drones as “Wasting public dollars to invade our privacy," thereby "putting our rights to free speech and protest at risk.” shorturl.at/w2xrb

Trump's $6bn border surveillance expansion includes massive funding for facial recognition ($673m) and social media monitoring. “The spending is not about safety, it’s about growing Trump’s power through an agency like DHS" -Laura Rivera (@justfutureslaw.bsky.social) @jmbooyah.bsky.social

“We’re proud to be a place that is safe for immigrants, people seeking abortion, and people who are seeking gender-affirming healthcare...In order to be fully a sanctuary state, we also have to be a data sanctuary state.” - Adam Schwartz, @eff.org sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/o...