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📅 Friday, March 6th
🕥 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
📍McCourt Capitol Conference Room
🖊️RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us for a joint event with @lawfaremedia.org and @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social, “Installing Updates to ECPA.” The event marks the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and features keynote remarks and panels from leading experts on the future of surveillance law.
Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible.
Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board.
(Published April 2025 w/ @veritenews.org)
In the article, Mejias argues that AI reinforces economic and corporate interests and reduces creative teaching. Read the full article here:
One of our advisory board members, Ulises Mejias (@ulises-mejias.bsky.social), recently published an article in Academe Magazine titled “Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor” where he analyzes how AI has been and will continue to disrupt education and writing assignments.
Toobin's call for a radical re-thinking of constitutional interpretation is answered in "A Theory of Law for the Next Founding Generation" by McNeill and Tucker. scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cpt_papers/1/ @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...
Our 2022 report, “American Dragnet,” was featured in a New York Times article titled “ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants,” which discusses ICE’s extensive surveillance practices that are costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Read the full article here:
Our Executive Director Emily Tucker was featured in a Frankfurter Allgemeine article discussing the Trump administration’s reliance on tech to facilitate ICE’s mass deportation efforts. She tells Frankfurter Allgemeine this use of technology is “far beyond what is justifiable.” Read the article:
Join GW’s Health Law and Policy Program and GW’s Center for Law on Friday, February 13th for “Private Matters: Health, Technology, and Battles Over Personal Data.” Featuring our Director of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson, the event will explore pressing issues on privacy in healthcare.
Throughout their conversations and her own research, Elina thought about her personal relationship to surveillance as a young person coming of age in a world where surveillance is pervasive and overlooked. Read her guest blog on her perspectives and reflections on surveillance on our site.
Last fall, local high school student Elina Jadhav reached out to our Executive Director Emily Tucker about a research project she was working on pertaining to the use of surveillance technology by police.
Our Faculty Advisor Paul Ohm’s (@paulohm.bsky.social) essay, “Toward Compliance Zero: AI & the Vanishing Costs of Regulatory Compliance” was featured in a @lawfaremedia.org article discussing the potential of AI-automated regulatory compliance & the implications for future AI policy.
Our Executive Director Emily Tucker was quoted in a column by Tressie McMillan Cottom from the New York Times about signs that ICE is looking to collect data from nearly every facet of Americans’ lives. Read the article here:
Join Lawfare, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, and the @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social on Friday, March 6 for a event featuring leading scholars, practitioners, and former government officials marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
RSVP here: lawfaremedia.org/ecpaevent
Dominoes are falling, per @ruddock.bsky.social.
The day-long event brought together scholars, practitioners, lawyers, & advocates to explain how political life and government power have been shaped by data surveillance. The Symposium featured four impactful panels exploring the role of data and technology in governance and democratic resistance.
On January 30th, we cohosted Georgetown Law Technology Review’s symposium: Data, Power, and Authoritarianism. The Symposium featured a fireside chat with our founder, Alvaro Bedoya, & our Faculty Advisors Julie Cohen, Paul Ohm, Laura Moy, & one of our Advisory Board members, Ulises A. Mejias.
Our Director of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson spoke with Rolling Stone's Alex Ashley about how the Trump administration has been using a widely-ignored federal law from the Bush administration as the basis for legal DNA collection at immigration screenings. Read the article here:
Our ED Emily Tucker spoke with Semafor about how tech can be used to monitor the govt. & hold it accountable. “The technologies used by the government & by individuals are not comparable — ‘it’s like saying they have an atom bomb, & you have a pen knife,’ Tucker says.” Read the article here:
Our Director of Research and Advocacy Stevie Glaberson recently spoke with MPR News’ Nina Mioni about how ICE’s surveillance tools enable the tracking of people in Minnesota. Read the article here:
Composed of 4 incredible panels, the Symposium will tackle discussions of the role of data and digital technologies in consolidating power and enabling new forms of authoritarian control. Register here:
We are partnering with the Georgetown Law Technology Review to host the 2026 Symposium next week. The Symposium features our founder Alvaro Bedoya, our Faculty Advisors Julie Cohen, Paul Ohm, Laura Moy, and one of our Advisory Board members Ulises A. Mejias.
Our Postdoctoral Fellow Marianna Poyares and Executive Director Emily Tucker were quoted in an Inkstick Media article that explores how surveillance technologies and the misregulation of AI-supported platforms target and harm many immigrant communities in the United States. Read the article here:
Our ED Emily Tucker was quoted in a Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) article on the Trump administration’s expanding use of commercial and government data to track and deport immigrants. Read the full article here:
“The lawsuit claims that the use of Flock cameras constitutes an illegal search and violates his 4th Amendment right to privacy and association. The city has also broken California law barring out-of-state law enforcement from using such data, Moore’s lawsuit alleges.”
And here is the link to submit your own comment. Doesn't need to be long or lawyerly!
www.regulations.gov/commenton/US...
Last month, DHS issued a notice of its intent to change the agency rule on DNA collection to give itself essentially unlimited authority to take DNA from anyone. 48 members of Congress signed a letter opposing the rule. You have until Jan 2 to submit your comment.
drive.google.com/file/d/1tqSA...
