“Firing whistleblowers isn’t just a side-effect of macroeconomic forces, nor is it intrinsic to the function of free markets. It’s evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the…culture. I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison”—Tim Bray tbray.org/ongoing/When/2…

I too predict criminality, but inaccurately, and based on whether you like the Matrix sequels.

Thank you @jevanhutson and UW Tech Law & Policy.

The DHS Privacy Office is now on Twitter! Follow us @DHS_PRIV for updates on DHS Privacy Office activities, publications, and events.

Wait. What?

I have so many questions. Is this a formal regulation? What is the penalty for violation? Who faces that penalty? Why 30 days (not 10-14)? Can the business or government use the information for any other purpose?

META: Contact-Tracing Tracer from MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/100…

Drone use during the pandemic opens the opportunity for future police surveillance of protests or other large public gatherings, particularly if the drones are equipped with face recognition systems, says EFF's Matthew Guariglia newscientist.com/article/224305…

New: UC Santa Cruz police utilized military surveillance equipment to surveil and police the graduate student 'wildcat' strike earlier this year. bit.ly/3fWKWQ6

Hey @TwitterSupport, how can we help restore important #privacy account AS 396507?

The difficulties of oversight bodies for ethical tech development. "NHS coronavirus advisory board split over ditching government app" theguardian.com/world/2020/may…

Different take on food security. "The proliferation in agriculture of systems that are supposed to run themselves has created a massive surface area of weak links, delicately strung together." logicmag.io/security/attac…

NEW: Gov. Jay Inslee's office released a clarification Friday night and stated that it will no longer require restaurants to take down names and contact information of every diner in order to reopen their dining rooms under Phase 2. st.news/2ApP0rx

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Newly-obtained documents show that a Silicon Valley data-mining company helped ICE plan the largest “gang raid” in New York City history—a 2016 operation in the Bronx. “They attacked us, our whole community.” theappeal.org/raided-part-2-…

A French court has ruled against using drones to combat COVID-19 because they "constitute a serious and manifestly unlawful infringement of privacy rights” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Public interest technology is so hard because governance problems that civil liberties experts deal with all the time, like surveillance & automated decision-making, aren’t well understood by everyone. Thankfully, Rogue CritPlat & ACLU of Washington have a new toolkit! aclu-wa.org/AEKit

I am part of the group who turned up public records revealing this and can vouch for the accuracy of all of it. See this thread for an *outrageous* example of Seattle Police Department's malfeasance and @SeattleOPA's near-complete ineffectiveness:

Seattle Privacy was founded with inspiration from Wikileaks. (We stole their motto.) One of our founders comments on the current US effort to lock away Julian Assange. oneeyedman.net/posts/20210117…

Shot Spotter's CEO donated money to Mayor Katie B. Wilson Bruce Harrell's campaign, and now he's returning the favor by buying their unproven snake oil with $1 million in taxpayer dollars that should be used to fund actual public safety needs.