Mayu Tobin-Miyaji

Immigration attorney says federal officials confiscated his cell phone at Logan, without cause - The Boston Globe Andrew Lattarulo regularly calls out ICE tactics on his popular Instagram account.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/03/m...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

FUCK ICE FOREVER

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

A National Guard Tactical Vehicle T-Boned a Civilian Car in D.C. Emergency workers sent a civilian to the hospital after an Afghanistan War era military vehicle smashed into their car.

New from 404 Media: photos we were sent show the aftermath of a National Guard vehicle in DC t-boning a civilian vehicle. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) All Terrain Vehicle was previously used in the Afghanistan War. Now bashing peoples' cars in U.S. www.404media.co/a-national-g...

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

AAUP v. Rubio, Daily Trial Updates

DHS “Tiger Team” Scrutinizing Student Protesters Was Told to Investigate 5,000 Names Listed by Canary Mission, ICE Official Testifies. Check out more highlights from Day 3 of trial at the link: knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.

This is huge, and a testament to the great work by 404 media's incisive reporting on the law enforcement surveillance apparatus across the U.S.
www.404media.co/flock-remove...

So proud to have this report out today! Thanks to the support from my amazing team at EPIC 🎉

Chairmen Guthrie, Bilirakis, and Palmer Launch Investigation into 23andMe and its Handling of Americans’ Sensitive Medical and Genetic Information The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

The leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee wrote to #23andme saying that since there is no federal comprehensive data privacy law, they have "great concern" about the safety of Americans' most sensitive personal info. Not at all frustrating.

energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...

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EPIC & @consumerreports.org are pleased to re-release the State Data Privacy Act with lots of new endorsements!

Now endorsed by:
Accountable Tech | CDT | Common Sense Media | CFA | Issue One | PIRG | Public Knowledge | Young People's Alliance

Learn more: epic.org/state-data-privacy-act

Update: Tracking of Real Algorithmic Harms in California as Enforcement Continues <p>As part of our project Assessing the Assessments—supported by the Rose Foundation—EPIC is continuing to track instances of real AI harms that are relevant to enforcement of the California Consumer ...

EPIC updated our tracker on real-life harms from algorithmic systems in California – check it out here: epic.org/update-track...

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

BREAKING: EPIC Sues OPM for Records on OPM’s Information Security and Employee Privacy Practices <p>Last Friday, EPIC sued the Office of Personnel Management under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) after the agency failed to respond to EPIC’s requests for records concerning OPM’s information ...

⚠️ BREAKING: Last Friday, EPIC sued the Office of Personnel Management under the Freedom of Information Act seeking records on the agency's information security and worker privacy practices. 🧵 (1/4) 

Read more about our complaint here: epic.org/breaking-epi...

Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition <p>Every time you step into a grocery store, you step into a machinery of data that tracks, analyzes, shares, and influences your shopping behavior. Based on shopping history and data shared from data...

Kroger is using surveillance pricing is trying to manipulate how much you spend on groceries by collecting as much data as they can about you— and it's not just creepy, you're probably paying more for grocery because of it. 🧵

Check out @mayu-tm.bsky.social's blog post: epic.org/krogers-surv...

So proud of my colleagues’ work on this!

Begging the political press to stop just reporting on what Trump says he's done, and actually investigating what has *actually* happened. The focus on rushing out stories to be first is letting the MAGA world play you over and over and over again.

Nearly 1/2 of states that passed consumer privacy laws get a failing grade for protecting consumers’ data, according to The State of Privacy, an updated scorecard from EPIC & U.S. PIRG Education Fund.

See your state’s report card: epic.org/state-of-privacy-2025 spoiler alert: no state earned an A!

🚨 EPIC and Enforce (@iccl.bsky.social) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵

Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...

Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious

October on the subway, roses at my side kids being loud. One skinny girl with a cap and a pretty smile gets up to give me her seat and takes this chance to sit on her friend’s lap. I read the paper and look over at these girls. So free and easy they are laughing laughing. I look at the pink pink roses and how I say I am not a romantic and how this whole roses thing is going to ruin my reputation against romance. I watch the girls. I watch the skinny girl in boy’s clothes and pretty smile flirt with all the other girls. So free and easy they are laughing laughing. And the man next to me, he is also watching watching. And the man next to me, he leans over and says to me: Hey Miss, Hey Miss, that’s too pretty to be a boy, right? As if somehow that thought disgusts him. As if he wants some agreement about this disgust. And me I am just relieved that he knows that I am a Miss and not a pretty boy. So I just shrug and I say nothing because it is 1997 and I am still afraid. Afraid to say what does a she look like and what does a boy look like. And what does too pretty look like and what is your problem exactly. And I don’t know whether his disgust is that he thinks girls who look like boys should be beat up or boys who look like girls should be beat up because, in fact, we know, they both are. I only know that I was relieved that he did not know my pink pink roses were for a girl and somehow I have this safety of passing and I think to myself: You all sitting there laughing laughing sitting there on your sixth grade girlfriend’s lap so free and easy, laughing laughing, be safe my handsome girls, be safe my pretty boys.

Next Sunu reads her first poem of the day, and makes me cry for the first time today... www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...