Ring is just one piece of a larger picture: data collection devices owned by both government and private entities, centralized by private companies through cloud services, and subject to AI analysis that makes them far more powerful than they would have been even in the recent past.
I grew up *near* the original -- and sometimes when I'm back home eat at proto outlet Taco Tia. But I do consider Cal-Mex my native cuisine and no, can't remember ever sighting an olive in any establishment in the region...
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We’ve seen plenty of “show me the man, I’ll find you the crime” kind of abuse at the hands of the Trump Administration. But here's a reminder that such abuse can rear its head anywhere — and when it does, license plate reading programs are a natural tool for that...
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Airspace over Homeland Security Dept. vehicles is to be designated “national defense airspace.” How drone operators are supposed to comply with the changes @jaystanley.bsky.social reports is one question. But another…. “national defense airspace”? Over DHS vehicles? Via @faineg.bsky.social
Excellent point
Under this ridiculous order, if ICE decides to drive underneath/near your drone with no notice, you could be liable for criminal charges and/or a $10,000 fine.
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Retailers using face recognition against their customers are taking government suggestions on who to alert against. This raises 2 questions:
A) Is this leading to construction of a nationwide look-out infrastructure?
B) Are these companies helping Trump's brutal and lawless immigration campaign?
Flock charges its critics with wanting to "see murderers go free" and "normalize lawlessness." But at this moment in history, it's not privacy advocates who are wanting those things...
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The big push for state digital driver's licenses is effectively a movement to increase the power of big companies and government to control individuals.
Using an LLM with your secure messaging service, as Meta proposes, brings new risks to the architecture that protects privacy and security.
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Agree it would be good if it expands the time law enforcement thinks about compliance. Let's just hope AI doesn't become a cheap shortcut that is used to justify *lessening* training time, as the ex-officer I spoke with worried would happen...
We can debate the moral complexities of individual responsibility for the misuse of LLMs, but policymakers need to be realistic that lapses are inevitable and take steps to limit certain uses of AI.
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"Basically, he said that it’s a tool that isn’t going to be used — and if it is used, then 'you’re failing in the training department, big time.'"
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@ACLU demanding more information on violations of photographer's rights, including DHS policy directives, training materials, legal analyses, and communications
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Perspective on AP report revealing how DHS uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers
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What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? How we have gotten dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control
A breakdown of the new “Mobile Fortify” face recognition program, including lists of
a) The reasons it’s problematic,
b) The vast array of data that the agencies can connect to
c) Some of the unanswered questions that remain about the program.
Utah is the only state where political leaders are thinking through the potentially disastrous effects of the current effort to create a national digital ID through the driver's license system.
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A bureaucratic wall is being built between Americans and the information they have a right to access
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We shouldn't get rid of police audit logs but we also shouldn't think they're worth more than they are
Some US prisons and jails have started using non-consensual, non-removable biometric wrist straps on prisoners to monitor their pulse, blood oxygenation level, skin temperature, activity level, and location.
What does the ACLU think of this? I look at the issue in a post on our Free Future blog
News about the driver-surveillance company Flock just keeps coming in: findings from Massachusetts and Virginia, new deals with big companies, and more:
Digital driver’s licenses — now being built in many states — have a big problem that almost nobody is addressing: the threat of an explosion of ID demands from all quarters. There is a body of existing state laws that points toward a solution.
Generally people should have privacy from government, and the government should be an open book to the people — not the other way around.
Surveillance, AI, and airline ticket prices:
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@jaystanley.bsky.social
There are a growing number of companies that are engaging in mass surveillance that could prove useful to the Trump Administration’s efforts to target immigrants. They have human rights responsibilities.
