On the first episode of our new YouTube series Making Sense, privacy expert Chad Marlow discusses Ring cameras, Elf on the Shelf, and why we should avoid gifts that normalize surveillance this holiday season.

Truly honored to be featured in this video as #ACLU relaunches its amazing YouTube channel. Opposing overreaching #surveillance is an issue all Americans can and do agree upon. Hope this video is as fun and interesting for you to watch as it was for me to make. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJ...

If you're a state legislator & want to limit government #surveillance in 2026 (and boy do we need it!) you should be looking into: - Banning reverse warrants - Passing the 4th Amendment Is Not For Sale Act - Restricting ALPRs (especially Flock) - Limiting student surveillance Let's get to work!

Flock claims its ALPR system fail safes prevent police from misusing it for abortion & immigration investigations. But to get around those fail safes, they just need to list another reason. One of them, used several times in Oregon, was "hehehe" 🤡🤬 archive.ph/2025.12.11-1... #GetTheFlockOutOfHere

This week's #GetTheFlockOuttaHere update: The existing Flock ALPR contracts in Eugene, OR and Springfield, OR were both cancelled due to concerns about their unacceptable risks to privacy and the public. www.opb.org/article/2025... More to come!

This week's #GetTheFlockOuttaHere update: Oakland, CA says no to Flock ALPR expansion Bay City (MI) Commission says no to Flock altogether The nation is turning against Flock ALPRs one city and one state at a time. Let's keep the momentum going!

Another anti-Flock ALPR victory. Congrats to Oakland, CA! #GetTheFlockOuttaHere www.ktvu.com/news/oakland...

The New York Jets are 2-0hio!

#Flock Safety has a $900M venture capitalist mandate to create a nationwide vehicle tracking system that eviscerates privacy. Its standard contract allows Flock to share #ALPR data "worldwide". ALPRs, if used at all, should focus on finding the bad guys, not empowering them. #GetTheFlockOuttaHere

Please check out my recent interview on WPKN about how governors and mayors can act TODAY to stymie Trump’s recent efforts to target non-profits and charities (including their staff, donors, supporters) who don’t capitulate to his agenda: archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/li...

Counterpoint airs Mondays 8-9:30pmET wpkn.org 89.5FM Bgpt #CT: @chadmarlow.bsky.social of @ACLU.org on Trump memo NSPM-7 authorizing fed investigations into opponents, perceived enemies; @peggybaileydc.bsky.social of @centeronbudget.bsky.social on govt shutdown, SNAP benefits & spike in ACA premiums

#GetTheFlockOuttaHere #Privacy #Surveillance #ACLU www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

If AI can't distinguish between a Doritos bag and a gun, it can't be trusted to police our communities.

President Trump's new national security memo aims to target activists and advocacy organizations that he perceives as political opponents. States and cities must protect sensitive data that could be used by the Trump administration to identify and go after these nonprofits and advocates.

My latest work for the #ACLU: gubernatorial and mayoral executive orders to prevent cooperation and data sharing with the #Trump administration’s recent, politically motivated effort to target non-profits and charities whose missions and work he does not approve of. www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

I get it. My work fighting government #surveillance, while critical to preserving our freedom and civil liberties, may not exactly be thrilling. But now, thanks to Sora, I finally can give my work that action-movie level excitement it has been missing.

As more and more states & municipalities turn against #Flock, its habit of misleading lawmakers & the public is intensifying. In truth, Flock knows it is increasingly at risk of not generating the massive returns its venture capital investors are seeking. Let's keep it going! #GetTheFlockOuttaHere

The Jets defense can’t stop a nosebleed but it doesn’t help the Jets that the refs have missed obvious face mask and blocking in the back penalties. They sure don’t miss those when the Jets do them.

I am so sick of every NFL team perfecting the 1 yard sneak (Eagles above all else) while the #Jets are still doing the ineffective deep RB handoff. 🤬

It’s about damn time. More states need to follow suit. www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/u...

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

This is horrible and disgusting. Violence is NEVER acceptable. Never! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Few things in life are more disappointing than biting into a baked good you think is full of chocolate chips and discovering they are raisins.

Agree! #Amtrak www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/02/e...

1 question the press & families should ask V.P. #Vance is how the administration claims it wants to keep #students safe but fired the entire congressionally-mandated Federal #School #Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board in January & has not reconstituted the group as promised. bit.ly/4n9oG7g

Voters have allowed politics to become more about performance art than solving problems. Yes, the pool of good candidates is thin, but what worthy person would choose to enter politics when false promises, rather than solid policies & leadership skills, win elections? Plenty of blame to go around. 😮‍💨

Cowards make friends with bullies and try to cover their own weaknesses by praying on those they view as even weaker. Donald #Trump is a textbook coward.

Yes, NYC’s lack of affordable housing creates haves & have nots, but the solution isn’t an income cap, which would force once-lower income families to choose between keeping their homes & earning more $. Sorry #Cuomo, but the answer is more #affordable #housing & higher taxes on luxury developments.

I was just in #Washington DC with my family last week & it was lovely & safe. First #Trump uses a false immigration narrative to put federal troops in LA, and now he is using a false crime narrative to put troops in DC. If Trump is not an #authoritarian, he sure does a convincing imitation of one.

The #Texas #floods are a tragedy, but - When you choose tax breaks over preventative gov't spending - When you deny climate change to avoid making hard choices - When you cheer Trump and DOGE when they cut critical National Weather Service staff There are horrific consequences. bit.ly/3Id25HM

I had Pres. Ryan as a professor at #UVA Law & he is as honorable as they come. So in true UVA fashion, I would ask the school to consider what its founder Mr. Jefferson would done if the federal gov’t demanded he fire his school’s president. He would have told them to f*ck off. bit.ly/4kfVsBP

"[Trump] and other administration officials repeatedly argued that because the [Iran] attack had been executed so flawlessly, it was offensive to even question the results." NY Times (6/25/25) Questioning your government is never offensive. It's patriotic and necessary, no matter who is in power.

On this week's Priorities Podacst, @aclu.org Senior Policy Advisor Chad Marlow discusses the implications of facial recognition technology being used by #NOLA police. Watch the full episode 📹➡️ youtu.be/dPw-lJmM90Q Hear the full episode 🎧➡️ statescoop.com/radio/new-or...

‪@chadmarlow.bsky.social‬ making some great points about New Orleans police's proposal to expand facial recognition. He says creating such broad surveillance will invite bad behavior into the city. Shouts to @keelyquinlan.bsky.social for hosting a great Priorities: statescoop.com/radio/new-or...

🎧 Facial recognition may be coming to New Orleans policing — but is your privacy at risk? 👀 What you need to know from our latest Priorites Podcast with @aclu.org 📽️ ⬇️ Listen to the full episode to learn more: statescoop.com/radio/new-or...

Anyone who cares about #privacy/#surveillance and its impact on the free exercise of our civil liberties (which should be all of you!) I recommend reading this masterpiece of a NY Times op-ed by @megankstack.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

My first choice in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary is Brad Lander. My second choice is "I wonder who will run four years from now?"

The New Orleans city council must keep its residents & visitors safe by REJECTING legislation that authorizes the use of live 24/7 facial recognition technology (FRT) in their city. Listen to learn why. #NOLA #NOFRT statescoop.com/radio/new-or...

Falsely claiming an officer's unlawful actions were motivated by a fake assault shouldn't be a get out of jail free card. The Manhattan DA should charge the ICE officers involved in Brad Lander's arrest w/ assault & false imprisonment. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/17/n...

Where in God's name is @nypd.bsky.social? When persons who refuse to show a judicial arrest warrant physically assault and abduct an NYC elected official who is not engaging in criminal activity, it isn't an arrest - it's kidnapping. So much for protecting and serving. #BradLander #NYPD #Trump

A reminder that 6 months ago, President #Trump’s DHS fired the entire Congressionally-mandated Federal #School #Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board (myself included). We weren’t paid, so I guess they cared more saving the money they spent on coffee than keeping #students safe.

This is the most Mad Max/dystopian video I’ve ever seen. Can’t believe it’s the world in 2025 where nothing, it seems, is out of the ordinary. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rYPmym/

I hated the idea of Trump’s military parade and I am glad it was dramatically overshadowed by the #NoKings protests, but I hope those in our #military know how deeply we appreciate them and that Americans’ overwhelming rejection of the parade was about #Trump and not at all about them.

“New Orleans City Council needs to understand… if they set up a [facial recognition] system of this power... not only [are they] creating the possibility the federal gov't could come in & commandeer this equipment & its data to go after people in #NewOrleans, they’re inviting it.” bit.ly/45W0FLn

#Trump #Surveillance #NoKings www.theverge.com/politics/686...

#NewOrleans voters should call their city council members & demand they reject NOLA PD's effort to use live facial recognition to watch everyone in their city all the time. FRT doesn't deter crime & undermines civil rights/liberties in ways effective non- #surveillance tool don't wapo.st/4kGjhUp

I ❤️ LA

As @aclu.org Senior Policy Counsel 4 #surveillance, here’s my top 5 state/local bills: 1) Ban reverse warrants 2) Pass 4th Amendment Is Not For Sale Act 3) Pass Community Control Over Police Surveillance 4) Stop using student surveillance techs 5) Don’t use nationwide ALPRs like Flock’s DM4 info