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Senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California
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Zach Osterman
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FINAL: No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10. The Hoosiers complete a 13-0 season and win their first Big Ten title since 1967.
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Jake Snow
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BREAKING:
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, Lieff Cabraser, and Tobener Ravenscroft just sued San Francisco landlords over AI-powered surveillance in people's homes. Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business.
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ACLU of Northern California
4 days ago
Surveillance is not safety. Yet government agencies deploy untested, invasive surveillance—like automated license plate readers—without considering proven, non-surveillance alternatives first. Mass surveillance should never be the first approach to public safety.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/l...
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Lawsuit over San Jose license plate readers
A new lawsuit by local advocacy groups alleges San Jose's use of data collected by automated license plate readers violates drivers' privacy rights.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/lawsuit-san-jose-license-plate-readers/3985158/
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ACLU of Northern California
11 days ago
www.aclunc.org/news/dhs-wit...
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DHS Withdraws Subpoena Seeking to Unmask Instagram Users Who Posted About ICE Raids | ACLU of Northern CA
https://www.aclunc.org/news/dhs-withdraws-subpoena-seeking-unmask-instagram-users-who-posted-about-ice-raids
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ACLU of Northern California
11 days ago
VICTORY: DHS has withdrawn its subpoena demanding the identities of anonymous Instagram users who posted about ICE raids in LA. The First Amendment protects your right to record police, to share those recordings, and do so anonymously.
@snowjake.bsky.social
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
17 days ago
NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis.
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Report Finds That Leading Chatbots Are a Disaster for Teens Facing Mental Health Struggles
A report found that leading chatbots are "fundamentally unsafe" for teens looking for mental health support, and failed to catch red flags.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatbots-teen-mental-health-chatgpt-gemini-claude
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Matt Cagle
19 days ago
Today
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& our
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team sued San Jose alleging its warrantless searches for driver locations are unconstitutional. This program is fed by a vast network of license plate readers and amasses people's private habits, associations, and movements
www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit...
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Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance | ACLU of Northern CA
https://www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit-challenges-san-jose-s-warrantless-alpr-mass-surveillance
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The San Jose PD regularly conducts warrantless searches through its massive license plate reader database, allowing it to reconstruct detailed maps of a person’s movements through the City going back as far as a year. This poses a serious threat to communities’ privacy and freedom of movement.
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Rachel Maddow
21 days ago
Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/
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Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese
26 days ago
Been out of the SCOTUS opinion analysis for a min (baby). But this Gorsuch Dissent (joined by Thomas 😮) from cert. denial in Veneno v. US, which challenged the Major Crimes Act (a fed. law that allows feds. to prosecute crimes on Indian Reservations), is worth discussing/explaining for a sec. 🧵 1/8
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Public Citizen
about 1 month ago
Amazon is firing 14,000 employees so that it can invest more in AI. Record profits for billionaire CEOs has never stopped greedy corporations from screwing over working people. The system is rigged.
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Kindra Cotton
about 1 month ago
I can see them wanting to do this to "monitor drivers", but ultimately this is about SURVEILLANCE! Imagine the kind of footage they're getting of the streets, people at their homes, and in their homes, given what the average driver sees in a day! SMH
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Jake Snow
about 2 months ago
We at
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@aclupa.org
filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS. The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
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Jake Snow
about 2 months ago
If you're going out to protest this weekend and wondering how to protect yourself from digital surveillance,
@aclu-norcal.bsky.social
has a video for you (featuring, yes, me). We draw heavily from
@eff.org
's fantastic Surveillance Self Defense resource, available here:
ssd.eff.org/module/atten...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
2 months ago
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.
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Kyle Cheney
2 months ago
BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters.
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MuckRock
6 months ago
In Illinois, the Evanston Police Department shared their automatic license plate readers with at least seven out-of-state agencies for immigration enforcement.
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/06/16/f...
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FOIA records reveal Evanston data accessible to out-of-state police making ICE searches - Evanston RoundTable
An automated license plate reader (on black pole) in Evanston just east of the North Shore Channel. The camera looks east along Oakton Street. The
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/06/16/foia-records-reveal-evanston-data-accessible-to-out-of-state-police-in-ice-searches/
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Mark Hurst
6 months ago
New from me: Let’s call AI something else.
buttondown.com/creativegood...
I'm drawing on the excellent new book "The AI Con" by
@emilymbender.bsky.social
and
@alexhanna.bsky.social
- and our recent Techtonic interview (click "pop-up player" at
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Matt Cagle
6 months ago
This lawsuit seeks to uphold a basic constitutional principle: when the government wants to pry into people’s homes and private lives, it must get a warrant. Read more about the ACLU’s case here:
www.aclunc.org/our-work/leg...
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Awesome! This is the most excited I’ve ever been about Bluebook rules! …Alright fine, the only time I’ve ever been excited about them.
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Matt Cagle
6 months ago
We just sued Sonoma County for its warrantless drone program. With 700+ flights logged, county agents routinely launch low-altitude drones that invade people’s privacy in and around their homes. This violates the California Constitution, full stop.
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Matt Cagle
6 months ago
Networked surveillance doesn’t see state lines. But the law can, and stories like these are precisely why
@aclu-norcal.bsky.social
and
@eff.org
has fought to enforce California’s ban on sharing license plate reader info across state lines.
www.eff.org/press/releas...
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Mia Sato
7 months ago
The Sun-Times' AI content also includes made up experts, quotes, and publications. It's the same story, over and over: a news outlet outsources work to freelancers or third-party firms that use AI, and that content is thrown in with actual human work w/o review.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Acyn
7 months ago
Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
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Marisa Kabas
8 months ago
The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.
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Debbie Reese/P'oesay P'oekwîn
8 months ago
Highly Recommended: We Weave, by Vandever and Mitchell -- Diné author and illustrator!
americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/04/high...
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Highly Recommended: WE WEAVE by Daniel W. Vandever and Deonoveigh Mitchell
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/04/highly-recommended-we-weave-by-daniel-w.html
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ACLU
8 months ago
Ideas aren't illegal. People aren’t illegal. And if ICE tries to intimidate people from freely expressing themselves, it's our job to stop it.
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ACLU of Northern California
8 months ago
A new report shows how CA schools fail to provide Native students with an equitable & inclusive education. The report provides tools for advocates working for change. Change is possible when communities & Tribes work together to reshape schools into spaces that recognize & respect Native students.
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Radley Balko
9 months ago
The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.
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Don Moynihan
9 months ago
You literally cannot tell this incredibly cool part of American history without centering Native American identity. It is an powerful demonstration of how diversity provided tangible military advantages over an enemy committed to White supremacy.
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Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese
10 months ago
Trump is laying off the DOCTORS at the Indian Health Service?! A chronically underfunded agency?! Irresponsible, dangerous, & a complete disregard for the lives of Native people and the government’s treaty and trust responsibilities. “Shame on them” is inadequate.
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Evan Sutton
10 months ago
Did Elon's pimple popping incel posse create a backdoor in the Treasury payment system for their criminal hacker friends to get in, or did they directly compromise these accounts themselves? I want every Democrat asking that question in every interview every day.
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UK officials are demanding access to Apple users’ encrypted account information, regardless of where the users live, in complete disregard of users’ privacy rights
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
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Matt Cagle
10 months ago
Imagine thinking these things should not be banned as a matter of corporate policy
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Salomé Viljoen
10 months ago
In honor of RFK Jr. advancing to a vote, here is the letter I wrote my senators about him. Copy and share if you like. I have a pit in my stomach.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
10 months ago
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Carole Cadwalladr
10 months ago
This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral
www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
11 months ago
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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The Verge
11 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
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Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
Zuckerberg even offers Republicans another target: Apple.
https://buff.ly/4aadwtJ
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Nicole Ozer
11 months ago
The surveillance systems that officials touted would keep us safe have become a major liability. Rights guaranteed by CA law cannot just be words on paper; they must also be lived reality.
www.techpolicy.press/californias-...
. New article w/
@mattcagle.bsky.social
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@techpolicypress.bsky.social
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California’s Surveillance Systems Have Once Again Become a Major Liability | TechPolicy.Press
Nicole A. Ozer and Matt Cagle write that the rights guaranteed by California law cannot just be words on paper; they must also be a lived reality.
https://www.techpolicy.press/californias-surveillance-systems-have-once-again-become-a-major-liability/
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Brandon Friedman
11 months ago
This thread is terrifying because, while it's currently specific only to X, it's also predictive of where MAGA and techno-fascist oligarchs are headed in general. Also, you should not be active on X.
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Jake Snow
12 months ago
It is very gratifying that my piece on the parallels between Big Tech and Big Tobacco—most saliently their pursuit of federal preemption to eliminate state-law protections—was the 18th most read post on Tech Policy Press in 2024. Out of over 800 posts! ICYMI:
www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-is-...
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Jake Snow
12 months ago
GREAT NEWS: Today the court in Santa Barbara granted the motion to quash, adopting reasoning in our amicus brief. The court recognized that, when the government seeks information impacting speech rights, a much higher showing is necessary.
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Excited to share ACLU NorCal's new landing page on Making Artificial Intelligence Work for the People.
www.aclunc.org/ai
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Making Artificial Intelligence Work for the People | ACLU of Northern CA
https://www.aclunc.org/ai
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Salomé Viljoen
12 months ago
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Great, so now readers can choose their own reality
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Jake Snow
about 1 year ago
ACLU of Northern California filed an amicus brief in this case highlighting the harms to privacy and free speech from an overbroad warrant targeting two activist Instagram accounts. Privacy is especially important when fundamental free-speech rights are at stake.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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UC Santa Barbara police seek access to a vast trove of student data related to Gaza protests
Civil liberties advocates are sounding the alarm after UC Santa Barbara police sought a sweeping search warrant for student data related to Gaza protests.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ucsb-protest-search-warrant-19944165.php
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