Little known fact: One of the first things Francis Perkins did was defund and restructure immigration enforcement to dismantle a goon squad and rebuild a system of humane immigration processing.

NEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:

for when your car isn't committing enough crimes by itself

This is notable to me because I've heard from some other lawyers that they're not worried about AI hallucinations because they only use the premium Westlaw or Lexis versions. Supposedly, they are limited to the real case databases This clerk used Lexis+ and Lexis Protege and got 8 hallucinations

Incredible story by @agreenberg.bsky.social, both on the scam compound operation and how he navigated a uniquely difficult and dangerous situation for his source. This one should be required reading for journalism ethics classes: www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

need more action and less asking, but this is a really great step from a group of 35 bipartian AGs ncdoj.gov/attorney-gen...

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

"your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status or financial info." how "precise location"? = you walked from the house to the garage.

DHS wants to learn from the best on how to use large datasets to target people. (The best is Ad Tech). sam.gov/workspace/co...

truly may never forget this moment

On tonight’s White House agenda: Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports. Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.

NEW: ICE is conducting research into further use of ADINT/"Big Data" to support "investigations activities" by @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more even detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”

Tech bros are doing their best to convince everyone they should have a best friend that sells their intimate details to the government and tells them to kill themselves.

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

“It’s unconscionable that people’s #utility rates are rising because of #DataCenters being built by billion dollar companies to fuel their #AI products,” said @benwinters.bsky.social. “This bill brings the very real issues of #Affordability and #BigTech abuse to the forefront.”

Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

WATCH: Our @benwinters.bsky.social testify before The #NewYork State Senate in SUPPORT of the New York #AI Act

X is claiming it’s restricted the ability to generate explicit deepfakes with Grok, and plenty of media outlets are parroting it without checking. But it’s still easy to get Grok to generate the very same “undressing” photos causing this scandal in the first place.

“ #Grok and its executives must be held accountable swiftly — we commend @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov for opening this investigation, and look forward to more actions in #California and around the country.” @benwinters.bsky.social

"It certainly is not just the user that is prompting it alone," he said. "It is the fact that the image would not be created if not for … the tool they made." @benwinters.bsky.social #Grok -generated nonconsensual explicit deepfakes hit #X. @npr.org

We've launched an investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery. We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK. 🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

X’s Grok AI tool is being used to generate nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. This is unacceptable. @wyden.senate.gov, @markey.senate.gov, and I are demanding that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores until Elon Musk addresses these heinous violations.

The most-discussed product here is an LG robot that can "fold laundry" but can't actually do it and takes 90 seconds to fail at the task. This product is not being released, and LG has been explicit that's the case. It is entirely built to mislead people. Every company doing this fucking sucks.

Both companies have repeatedly taken down nonconsensual porn apps. Last year, both quickly got back to me when I asked them about research on some VPN apps sharing data with China, though they wouldn't go into specifics on the record. This time though, it's crickets, which is also telling.

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

Hmm ok like five countries are investigating me what if I upsold people to CSAM+

For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

But it's not just Musk. Why is Grok on the Apple and Google app stores? Why is it on Microsoft Azure's Foundry as a highlighted model? And beyond that, why are we still lacking basic guardrails on nonconsensual image generation in 2026? The answer is a five-letter word: Greed.

So anyway, xAI's response to rampant use of Grok to generate CSAM and sexual abuse is to... monetize it

You may have seen reports swimming around claiming that X finally restricted the Grok deepfake/undressing features behind a paid subscription. That simply isn't true. Not even close. www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

Strong data privacy protections are critical to protecting communities from ICE. The MA Senate passed a data privacy bill in the fall. The House needs to take action. #mapoli

shout out New Mexico AG Torrez bsky.app/profile/raph...

imagine watching this and not thinking that this is the whole goddamn reason to even *have* America

it is unconscionable we haven't seen one single representative of a law enforcement agency in the US say something like this www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Micheal Martin

Small but significant victory in dark times. The only passenger airline that does Gestapo kidnapping flights is ending its contract. Let this be a warning to all corporations who seek to profit from collaboration with the regime.

“I had now no more hesitation about bringing the Jewish problem to light in all its details.” - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 36

"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

New: Grok is generating far more graphic sexual content than on X. Grok’s image generator, Imagine, has been used to create explicit sexual videos of celebrities and violent sexual videos, a review of public posts shows. 70 Imagine URLs appearing to depict minors were sent to regulators today

Hey, New Yorkers. I called @newyorkstateag.bsky.social and asked her to prosecute X and put them out of business for facilitating the manufacture and distribution of CSAM and non-consensual pornography. A very nice person actually answered the phone! Please call if you feel similarly! (518) 776-2000

This this this this this this this this this If you do this, you are doing PR for the companies

there is a never-ending list of reasons that doing this is irresponsible and that using it in any form would be a mistake, but perhaps #1 should be about law enforcement access OpenAI has not earned one iota of public trust, and each day a story like this comes out: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...