If it wasn't obvious before that surveillance state was a threat to our present and future: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

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We saw some great wins and steps forward in state legislatures this year. We also fought some troubling trends. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Hi #portland tonight is our event on surveillance, happening at 6 pm. If you haven't signed up yet please do and join us in person or online: www.meetup.com/portlands-te...

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In this episode, I speak with Justin Hendrix, the CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. We talk about ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), surveillance, and AI. Recorded Oct 21. Released Nov 10, 2025

Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

now that the govt shutdown is over, y'all will need to really yell and scream about these bills because many of them are going to be pushed again. tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies! www.congress.gov/members/find...

Are you concerned about ICE and other federal agencies operating in your communities, spying on you and your neighbors? Then take some agency by joining us next Monday to discuss surveillance in our community w/ Alex Marthews from RestoreThe4th & @councilormorillo.bsky.social

And this from @dia.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/ai-surveilla...

This from Emily Tucker: www.techpolicy.press/to-have-demo...

If you haven't already signed up register today to come learn about surveillance in Portland and what it means for our immigrant communities and communities at large as well as what our elected leaders are doing to address abuses of power by the govt! www.meetup.com/portlands-te...

Hi folks, are you concerned about the recent immigration raids in Portland? We will be hosting an event on November 17th regarding privacy concerns around data collection and surveillance. Sign up today! www.meetup.com/portlands-te...

#Amazon #Ring just partnered with #Flock Safety to create a surveillance pipeline from your doorbell straight to police databases, including ICE, Secret Service & Navy. Same day as the announcement, @404media.co exposed Flock’s fed access. They’re not even hiding it anymore.

#Ring just announced they’re partnering with #Flock Safety to pipeline your doorbell footage directly to police. You know, Flock.. the company that’s been caught letting #ICE track vehicles without warrants. They promised to stop warrantless requests in 2024. That lasted exactly 9 months…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation maintains the Atlas of Surveillance, a searchable database tracking police surveillance technology including Flock cameras by city, county, and agency across the U.S. You can search by your location or leave it blank to browse the entire country.

When users contacted Digi, Movistar, Vodafone about broken WireGuard VPN connections, ISPs claimed “no technical issues found” while actively poisoning DNS queries. They’re gaslighting customers to avoid admitting court-ordered sabotage.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening… ISPs are redirecting ddns.net to 127.0.0.1 It’s DNS poisoning as official policy. They’re deliberately breaking legitimate network infrastructure to target piracy sites they won’t even name. As a network engineer, this is architectural sabotage.

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Ileana from @transjournalists.org is doing some live FOIA filing with @muckrock.com ! Suggest something you're curious about on the livestream and join the fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QwO...

This is a gross abuse of privacy if the DOJ wins a case against our state to hand over private information on voters. No party, no government besides our own democratically elected government in the State of Oregon should have access to our private data and personal information.

It's time to take privacy seriously for all Americans. Why? Because a wave of anti-privacy monuments are being built into our landscape:

🧵 Portland Police are accepting comments on Automated License Plate Reader policy until tomorrow. I spent lots of personal time lately to dig into this. There's very little info about the ALPR system. The policy under review is from 2013. Here's what I noted in my comments -- You can comment too:

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It is officially author rebuttal time for @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers. For me this year's crop was broadly in the AI governance subject area. Awesome learning opportunity!

🧵Can city utilities boost revenues, reduce debt burdens & do so equitably? My latest personal reporting uses records obtained via public records request to investigate Portland Water Bureau's algorithmic segmented pricing program, inspired by a corporate tech pricing scheme. I dug deep on the data:

The more pressure platforms and websites face to age-gate services, the more radically it could change people's relationships with the internet, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @arstechnica.com. arstechnica.com/tech-policy...

One has to wonder how secure data centers are, particularly with regard to public consumer data that is collected.

AI concerns are a bipartisan and frankly a post political issue. We must break free of our political tribes and meet these problems head on. We can only win with a coalition of serious people seriously approaching these potential threats to the safety and security of our communities.

A very serious concern is ICE having backdoor access to security cameras. And how many surveillance cameras in a city do agencies have? and how easy for those surveillance networks, both private and public, to access through legal or illegal means by both US and foreign intel agencies?

Appreciate speaking with Justin and working with the team at @techpolicypress.bsky.social, as always. @emilymbender.bsky.social

AI policy & gov algo wonk alert: An in-depth investigation I've been working on for months about an algorithmic segmented pricing system for utility bills piloted in Portland will be out soon - based on docs obtained via public records request. Follow my Patreon or redtailmedia.org/get-redtail-...

Independent Journalism is so critical to highlight privacy concerns many Oregonians have. Please support and uplift independent journalism. Their stories may not always be comfortable and they may go against your worldview, but they are motivated by the best intentions!

@wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social we Oregonians need you to stand against online censorship! #PortlandOR #Privacy #oregon #KOSA

Did you know over 70% of EFF's funding goes directly toward ensuring EFF's lawyers, activists, and technologists can better push for your rights online? We take your support seriously and make the most out of your donation.

This bill will harm organizations like PDX Privacy and prevent meaningful engagement on matters that deeply affect peoples' lives. We need less government intrusion and if we can't advocate in an effective manner then who will fight for the privacy or any other rights for millions of Americans?

"What they're building is a surveillance weapon and it can be put to all sorts of adverse uses in the future" www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

If you're in Oregon you still have time to testify on HB 2008 (consumer geo-location data protection for minors) which we support, and SB 238 (drone use expansion for law enforcement) which we oppose. Please check out @katekaye.bsky.social's work on drones in PDX: pdxprivacy.org/2025/02/peop...

The only time he’s at a loss for words is when someone asks him about privacy. news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

Privacy matters, and ways to protect against intrusion matters, Stateside and abroad!

Proliferation of AI agents, particularly inside biz and gov means actual humans will be locked out of systems all the time because security systems will need to decipher among legit agents, legit humans, and bogus/nefarious ones. The potential impact on governing data access and use is staggering.

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Thanks so much to all who have contributed to support my independent research and reporting on government & police surveillance and algorithmic tech use in Portland, Oregon! Most of this reporting is compiled here: redtailmedia.org/2024/10/19/a...

Dan Handelman, an ardent police watchdog and co-founder of Portland Copwatch, died Wednesday. Handelman was best known for his decades of commitment to police oversight and accountability, but his legacy is also steeped in the dogged pursuit of social justice. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/04...

“There are real concerns that AI is being used to automate target selection, and potentially initiating surveillance without adequate human review” – Kia Hamadanchy, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union

1,300 surveillance cameras on campus tracking students’ behaviour. WTF

Older article but still very relevant. Why is Clear still allowed to engage travelers in unreasonably aggressive tactics to steal our biometric information for resale to other data buyers? It's dangerous, undermines our personal privacy and security and civil liberties.

Protecting your privacy doesn't have to be scary. Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense guides for step-by-step tutorials for keeping your data and devices secure.

Last week, CDT led 27 civil society orgs in a letter to Congressional leadership condemning the firing of three members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). cdt.org/insights/cdt...

Today is International Data Privacy Day and at the Oregon DOJ you can find tools on consumer privacy protections and resources to protect yourself and your families: www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/n...