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Senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California
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Salomé Viljoen
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The only thing that anyone should hear as they read this:
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Tyrell Corporation
13 days ago
As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though
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David Kaye
about 2 months ago
communities and cops have often embraced ALPRs, even in the face of objections (like mine, in my neighborhood) based not only on privacy but on likely abuse by ICE/federal govt. any community that has them should get rid of them now.
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Surveillance company Flock generates controversy — and a roster of L.A. clients
Other cities have ended their relationships with Flock Safety over its ties to the federal government and concerns about cybersecurity and privacy. But connections in the L.A. area endure.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-01/surveillance-company-flock-safety-los-angeles
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sarah jeong
about 2 months ago
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
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ACLU of Northern California
about 2 months ago
“With these subpoenas, the government is intimidating anonymous social media users who are documenting ICE in their communities. Companies are capitulating to demands instead of fighting illegal subpoenas in court,” said ACLU attorney
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Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/technology/lawmakers-tech-companies-dhs.html
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ACLU of Northern California
about 2 months ago
Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) threaten civil liberties and have been used to target immigrants, protestors, and people seeking reproductive care. And Flock has proven itself incapable of securing ALPR location information against illegal sharing.
www.kqed.org/news/1207446...
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Santa Clara County Leaders Cut Out Flock Safety in New Surveillance Policy | KQED
Santa Clara County Supervisors amended their own policies to restrict Flock Safety license plate cameras in three South Bay cities.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12074467/santa-clara-county-leaders-cut-out-flock-safety-in-new-surveillance-policy
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Salomé Viljoen
about 2 months ago
In a sane world, our universities would be suing this company into the ground. Unfortunately, many of them probably think in order to stay "relevant" or whatever, they need to develop partnerships with these plagiarism-as-a-service companies instead
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ACLU of Northern California
about 2 months ago
ALPRs are marketed to promote public safety, but many are waking up to the reality: they have high error rates and low efficacy for solving crimes — and worse, they can be weaponized against anyone the government chooses to target.
sanjosespotlight.com/op-ed-san-jo...
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Op-ed: San Jose can protect immigrants by ending Flock surveillance system - San José Spotlight
As ICE and other federal agencies continue their assault on civil liberties, local leaders are stepping up to protect their communities. This includes pushing back against automated license plate read...
https://sanjosespotlight.com/op-ed-san-jose-can-protect-immigrants-by-ending-flock-surveillance-system/
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ACLU of New Mexico
2 months ago
This legislation establishes New Mexico’s first statewide regulations for Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) data, ensuring that location information isn't weaponized against residents for seeking legal healthcare, exercising constitutional rights, or for federal immigration enforcement.
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Evelyn Douek
2 months ago
surprising amount of chilling of dissent in this new era of tech companies and the government collaborating to stand up for free speech etc
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ACLU of Northern California
2 months ago
Because when you're facing authoritarianism, do not obey in advance. Read our open letter to Amazon, Apple, Discord, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Reddit here:
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https://www.aclunorcal.org/app/uploads/2026/02/2-5-2026-Letter-to-Tech-Companies-Re-Subpoenas.pdf
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Jake Snow
2 months ago
The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses. Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
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Matt Cagle
2 months ago
Proud to be part of the ACLU team opposing DHS attempts to harass and intimidate people exercising their First Amendment rights.
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evacide
2 months ago
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice. We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans
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Jay Stanley
2 months ago
Ring is just one piece of a larger picture: data collection devices owned by both government and private entities, centralized by private companies through cloud services, and subject to AI analysis that makes them far more powerful than they would have been even in the recent past.
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Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out | ACLU
Think twice about sending video from your home to companies, and possibly police and hackers
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/doorbell-camera-video-search
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The Verge
2 months ago
Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted
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Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted
The feature could arrive as soon as this year.
https://buff.ly/9XhRtsK
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Let’s make sure this gets the attention it deserves and the scrutiny Meta clearly wants to hide from.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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evy kwong
2 months ago
guys please don’t fall for the cute doggo ring super bowl commercial. they’re literally creating a tool that turns all ring cameras in a neighborhood into a surveillance dragnet
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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/
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ACLU
2 months ago
A Kansas man wrote an op-ed criticizing local police for cooperating with ICE. Instead of respecting his First Amendment rights, the police used automatic license plate readers to track him in hopes of finding wrongdoing. We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.
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Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU
Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-against-op-ed-writer?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&utm_medium=soc&initms=awr-social-bsky-social-nat-blog-privacytechnology-automatic_license_plate_readers-freefuture&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=freefuture&utm_content=awr-social-bsky-social-nat-blog-privacytechnology-automatic_license_plate_readers-freefuture&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=awr-social-bsky-social-nat-blog-privacytechnology-automatic_license_plate_readers-freefuture
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ACLU of Northern California
2 months ago
Whatever the federal presence looks like in the Bay Area on Super Bowl Sunday, we won’t allow it to stop us from exercising our First Amendment right to protest ICE violence. Before you head out on Sunday, here’s what you need to know about your rights to help you stay safe.
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ACLU of Northern California
2 months ago
This surveillance tech is a "threat to undocumented immigrants or anyone opposing federal immigration actions who travel[s] through Mountain View, a chilling prospect as the U.S. is rattled by images of federal agents snatching people off the streets, brutalizing protesters and even killing..."
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Mountain View police turn off license plate readers, allege unauthorized federal use
Mountain View has shut off its Flock Safety license plate readers over concerns that outside agencies were able to access the vendor’s data, police said.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/mountain-view-police-flock-license-plate-readers-21330156.php?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=69836d152f05bd0001795fbd&utm_campaign=article-share&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_source=marketing&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2JheWFyZWEvYXJ0aWNsZS9tb3VudGFpbi12aWV3LXBvbGljZS1mbG9jay1saWNlbnNlLXBsYXRlLXJlYWRlcnMtMjEzMzAxNTYucGhw&time=MTc3MDIyNDcyMzgxMg%3D%3D&rid=NmJhZmU3MDEtNWVlMC00YjRiLTg3NzgtNjYxYjEwYjE0ZDEw&sharecount=NA%3D%3D
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Jake Snow
3 months ago
The Department of Homeland Security is abusing administrative subpoenas to terrorize people and stop them from speaking out.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/
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Proud graduate of a football school. GO HOOSIERS!
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Rachel Cohen
3 months ago
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
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Jake Snow
3 months ago
WOW
@nicoleozer.bsky.social
, a brilliant privacy scholar and leader (and my former boss), has been appointed to the board of
@calprivacy.bsky.social
. This is ✨amazing news✨ for Californians' privacy.
cppa.ca.gov/announcement...
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California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
https://cppa.ca.gov/announcements/2026/20260112.html
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Zach Osterman
4 months ago
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
5 months ago
BREAKING:
@aclu-norcal.bsky.social
, 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.
www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...
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ACLU of Northern California
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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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
5 months ago
Today
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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
5 months 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
5 months 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
6 months 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
6 months 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
6 months ago
We at
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and
@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
6 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
7 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
7 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.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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MuckRock
10 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
11 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
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
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Matt Cagle
11 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
11 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
11 months ago
Networked surveillance doesn’t see state lines. But the law can, and stories like these are precisely why
@aclu-norcal.bsky.social
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@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
11 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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