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We should be asking difficult questions about why the first prominent state-level deployments of genAI are aiming to scrutinize the lives of poor people and not the wealthiest among us.

Computer glasses will make us safer this time

BREAKING! We’ve just released our new Know Your Rights guide and video on Free Speech, Protests & Demonstrations. Find out what you need to know before you take to the streets. Plus what to do and not to do if you get stopped by the police. More at aclunc.org/protest-rights

Take it from Oracle, a company that just agreed to pay $100+ million to settle a suit alleging it had violated the privacy of hundreds of millions of people by collecting and sharing their personal information without consent. reuters.com/legal/oracle-r…

In 7 weeks, Donald Trump may win the presidency, and if he does, SF's expanding network will be a perfect target for an admin carrying out Project 2025 and seeking info about people protesting, seeking medical care, and going about their private lives. sfstandard.com/2024/09/16/san…

Five years ago Microsoft workers protested the company developing military defense googles. Today Microsoft doubled down on this work, announcing a partnership with Anduril.

You know what actual populism looks like? It's not demonizing immigrants. It's this: Using government to protect ordinary people from corporate greed.

Oakland's cameras aren't effectively stopping people from dumping trash. Instead of wasting $ on surveillance, the City should follow the lead of my neighbors who are putting up flowers, benches, and libraries to create spaces that invite people, not junk. oaklandside.org/2024/08/02/ill…

We filed a preliminary injunction against UC Santa Cruz to stop unconstitutional campus bans of students and faculty without hearings or proof of threat. kqed.org/news/12006851/…

They live on a different sidewalk. Worse off than before. They don’t just disappear.

Phenomenal reporting in The Washington Post shows an epidemic of police hiding their use of face recognition technology from people accused of crimes and their defense attorneys. (1/x) washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

As face recognition-fueled wrongful arrests illustrate, once this tech IDs someone, accurately or not, it can taint the subsequent police investigation and the basis for charges. This is just one reason that people deserve to know if cops used it in their case. Learn more⬇️

It’s all fun and games until the cops demand you turn over anything your fun music surveillance device incidentally recorded on the street

Littering Oakland communities with ineffective microphones is not making a meaningful dent in public safety and distracts money and attention from real solutions. Oakland should listen to Anti Police-Terror Project and community groups and shutter its broken ShotSpotter program.

What Big Tech learned from Big Tobacco: (1) Push bad bills in states (2) Point to the "patchwork" the bills created (3) Use preemption to prevent better state laws read Jake Snow on why this is a huge drag🚬:

Police surveillance tech triggers a vehicle pursuit across two cities that ends with four people hospitalized and multiple cars damaged. Surveillance will make us safer, they say.

Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny"

No excuses. Every single one of my Democratic colleagues should be voting against this bill that gives Trump and his incoming administration dictatorial powers to target nonprofit organizations as political enemies without due process.

Lots of folks are commenting on the fact that Meta is cozying up to the current administration, cutting out fact checking and other forms of moderation. This stuff is obviously worrying, but my big concern is: what happens when the government asks them to turn off encryption?