The fact authorities over the years have pivoted at will between “I trust your documents over you” and “I trust my own judgment over your documents” reveals that government information and documentation is only useful when it serves the existing intentions of police.

The fact authorities over the years have pivoted at will between “I trust your documents over you” and “I trust my own judgment over your documents” reveals that government information and documentation is only useful when it serves the existing intentions of police.

STILL the most complete and accurate articulation of the government's playbook for sabotaging and dismantling opposition political movements in the U.S. and the world. For it's 50th anniversary, read the new abridged essential edition of the Church Committee Report. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This is way too real.

Surveillance provides the infrastructure of gendered violence. This is a practice that long predates Flock and goes way beyond local police. NSA employees have tapped into the backbone of the internet using national security tools to spy on women.

$220K Getty Foundation award will help the Auburn Avenue Research Library digitize collections tied to Atlanta’s Black arts movement. www.uatl.com/news/2026/05...

“San Francisco went from being a pioneer in responsible ways of controlling surveillance and protecting people’s privacy to one of the most surveilled cities in the country with very few guardrails, in just a few short years,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told Xpress magazine.

New, by me at this.weekinsecurity.com: Health wearable giant Oura says it has received government demands for users' information (because Oura does not use end-to-end encryption). Will Oura say how often it gets demands for user data, and how often Oura hands over users' data to authorities?

I need to see more people espousing the narrative that this technology, in addition to serving sinister ideologies, is also just not very good.

New York Times, CNN, very rarely do these institutions have people talking about national security whose expertise is the civil liberties/human rights implications of these powerful spy tools.

Apple and Google are rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS between iPhone and Android. Billions get instant security gains — and the "interoperability undermines security" argument both companies pushed for years just got much harder to defend, writes Mallory Knodel.

"If Chris Larsen was willing to fund public housing instead of surveillance cameras, the city would be taking that money and not this. He gets to change the policy of the city based on what he's willing to pay for." - @mguariglia.bsky.social at the @eff.org.

This guy has unilaterally decided for a million people that the only way to fight crime is to put everyone under police surveillance even though, if he really wanted to, he could afford to pour that tens millions of dollars in housing, education, public programs and things that actually reduce crime

Law professors: Research suggests that creating positive activities and opportunities for teens can help reduce delinquent behavior more effectively than punitive approaches alone. Carceralists: ARREST 👏🏻 MORE 👏🏻 SINGLE 👏🏻 MOMS 👏🏻

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-leak-that-ive-witnessed-u-s-cybersecurity-agency-leaves-its-digital-keys-out-in-public-on-github-2000760330

Remember when Buzzfeed had like a $100,000 a year fellowship for deep experts in the national security field to do research and reporting?

first long-form interview about *Mississippi Law* with Michael Stauch @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! hear abt policing under Jim Crow authoritarianism, liberal collaboration, and the ways folks fought/fight back. grateful to Mike for his deep engagement with the book. open.spotify.com/episode/4cMJ...

Flock’s “we don’t have any contracts with the federal government” excuse was always too easy to shred even without a straight up contract with the FBI.

Oh no! Classified intelligence reports leaked to Axios but that the public will *never* see claim the great and powerful wizard of Oz is about to send a drone swarm to attack Disneyland, the US might as well carpet bomb munchkin land preemptively!

I have seen some nakedly cruel imperialist BS, but I have never seen such a half-assed garbage attempt at justifying a military strike than sharing and then republishing "intelligence reports" about a potential for a fantasy Cuban drone attack on Key god damned West.

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

Did you know EFF created the Atlas of Surveillance? It's our database mapping police surveillance tech across the U.S.! You can support our work pushing back against surveillance, and get a t-shirt to show support for that work, today: eff.org/spring

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

The darkly hilarious thing that Republicans will never understand is that the people *covering* the right have been dealing with this for years. I had an 30-plus minute conversation with neo-Nazis about my Jewish heritage (quarter, patrilineal) at CPAC in 2024. We told you, dude!

It says a lot about policing today (and how departments spend money) that companies can accumulate billions and inflate their stock through aggressive marketing, including by other police, all while selling tech whose effectiveness at doing the one thing it promises to do is totally in doubt.

“Tisch is using digitized stop-and-frisk tactics as pretext to place more officers on the streets in Black and Latino neighborhoods. NYPD labels people who haven’t committed any crime as ‘gang members’ based on stereotypes." - Jason Taper, S.T.O.P. Legal Fellow nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/14/c...

Major investors in Anduril, Flock, a huge marker of police drones Skydio, and a number of other AI security/surveillance/policing vendors.

I was at a hip restaurant last night and a guy at the bar overheard us talking about military contractors and he said "Are you talking about Lockheed? I work there!" and....we need to be upping the social shame on folks if he's willing to just admit that openly.

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT! 🚨 @propublica.org is launching a dedicated California office and we need a skilled editor to develop and lead this new team. Details and application here 👇

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

Amazon Ring is looking for "Head of Security Efficacy" to figure out how to make their products a deterrence for crime (pssst: they can't) and want someone with a "law enforcement or military background — *ideally special operations*" These companies are getting more and more ridiculous.

I better start seeing bills in Congress that extend the GSA's prohibited vendor list to companies with a history of enabling civil liberties/human rights abuses.

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NEW: Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.

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Come work with us! Are you a *great* litigator with a love for teaching? We are launching a formal federal Indian law clinic--and are looking to hire a two-year clinical fellow to work with us and the great Professor Deborah Archer (also President of the ACLU). apply.interfolio.com/186544

The FCC just finally responded to my FOIA request for complaints about the 2026 Super Bowl. Predictably, half were racist reactions to Bad Bunny’s performance but the other half were complaints about how there were no closed captions for most of the commercials airing on NBC during the game.

Mapping Police Violence collected data on more than 1,200 killings by police in 2025 policeviolencereport.org

spencer pratt deadass answered a question about creating more housing in LA by saying after he puts 28000 drug addicts in jail there’ll be 28000 more housing units, and then said we can 3D printing housing

"It is difficult to have tools taken away while also being expected to respond quickly and solve cases quickly and be scrutinized for it" - officer resigns after city rejects ALPRs. It's almost like a public safety system that requires mass surveillance or it doesn't work isn't the right solution.

"It is difficult to have tools taken away while also being expected to respond quickly and solve cases quickly and be scrutinized for it" - officer resigns after city rejects ALPRs. It's almost like a public safety system that requires mass surveillance or it doesn't work isn't the right solution.

Cool and rare job opening at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for a writer/editor: www.usajobs.gov/job/867060200

Atlanta is trying to increase its police budget:

Help EFF claw back your privacy! Together we can hold wrongdoers accountable, and change the policies and laws that enable mass surveillance. Show your support with our latest member t-shirt: eff.org/spring

A book proposal I've been working on for well over a year is out to the m'f'ing press.

STILL the most complete and accurate articulation of the government's playbook for sabotaging and dismantling opposition political movements in the U.S. and the world. For it's 50th anniversary, read the new abridged essential edition of the Church Committee Report. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This guy watches too many movies.

Send a FOIA request in to the closest department to you using AI to draft reports--I can almost guarantee you'll find some internal emails of officer's saying this tech is not everything it's cracked up to be. So why is it being adopted so fast? Sophisticated marketing: www.eff.org/document/sel...

Is AI saving police time when writing their reports? So far, the data says no. The latest from @gregbarber.bsky.social @proofnews.bsky.social: www.proofnews.org/can-ai-repla...

Too many good liberals hear "training" and they think "professionalization"--they picture police spending hours learning the law, deescalation, and honing an air of expertise. What they probably don't picture is training that disproportionately emphasizes danger to officers and tactical responses.