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Nate Freed Wessler

@natewessler

Deputy director of @ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Views expressed here are my own.

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We just filed public records requests asking the Phoenix field office of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Arizona attorney general for records regarding the illegal mass collection of people’s financial records.

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When States' try to pass biometric privacy laws, the constant refrain from opposition is: wHaT aBoUt SmAlL bUsInEsSeS? Today, in Portland Press Herald, two bookstore owners dispelled the myth that small businesses are against Maine's biometric privacy bill. pressherald.com/2022/04/07/mai…

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BREAKING: Today we asked the Supreme Court to hear Moore v. US as we challenge long-term, warrantless camera surveillance of people’s homes by police. We have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy — and we need a clear ruling to protect us against this invasive surveillance.

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“Ordinary people’s private financial records are being siphoned indiscriminately into a massive database, with access given to virtually any cop who wants it,” said Nate Freed Wessler of ACLU, which obtained files revealing the breadth of access among local, state and federal agencies

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BREAKING: We just released hundreds of documents showing how Arizona created a nationwide surveillance program to track Americans’ personal money transfers. It's one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent history.

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In Nov, a GA man was arrested for a crime in LA, a state he said he'd never been to. He spent 6 days in jail. We found his arrest was based on a wrong facial recognition match and supported by a cascade of technologies intended to make policing easier. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/tec…

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For the last three months, Ryan Mac 🙃 & I have been trying to get to the bottom of exactly why a man in Georgia was jailed for stealing purses in Louisiana, a state he'd never been to. It started with facial recognition and snowballed from there. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/tec…

For the last three months, <a href="/RMac18/">Ryan Mac 🙃</a> &amp; I have been trying to get to the bottom of exactly why a man in Georgia was jailed for stealing purses in Louisiana, a state he'd never been to. It started with facial recognition and snowballed from there. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/tec…