Jay Stanley
@jaystanley.bsky.social
Emerging technology and science for ACLU
The FBI has been using, and companies selling, technology that allows agents to hack into and take over drones. But if the government can do that... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Government Playing a Dangerous Game With Drone Cybersecurity | ACLU
Return of the zombie idea that software vulnerabilities can be reserved for good actors
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"Shepard Safety" Amazing satirical public comment at the Casa Grande, AZ Council Meeting on July 20! "Our AI will monitor where government officials go, where they stop, who they meet with, and when they return home." #deflock #surveillance #alpr
Many states have some strong privacy laws on the books that are not being enforced, Utah's top privacy official says. And state privacy officers shouldn't report to state CIOs. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
State Chief Privacy Officers Can Have Real Power | ACLU
Utah has given its CPO a meaningful role — and he has thoughts on how other states should follow
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It's useful to see things that law enforcement didn't intend for us to see. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Leaked Police Drone Videos Highlight Need For Independent Review of the Technology’s Usefulness | ACLU
And other takeaways from watching three hours of aerial police videos
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Sometimes the good guys win. And when this happens, we take the time to enjoy our victory because that is the only way to fight a long fight without burning out. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices
Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunsho...
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The FBI and DHS have seized hundreds of drones during the World Cup under corrupt civil asset forfeiture laws that let law enforcement agencies pad their budgets by taking property without due process. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Government Security Agencies Want to Steal Your Drone | ACLU
And are putting in place rules that allow them to do so
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Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.
For-profit Silicon Valley-backed tech companies are positioning themselves to sit at the very heart of American police departments. What could go wrong? Well, we answer that question in a new white paper published today: lnkd.in/edu8vEza
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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A simple point, but one that surveillance boosters usually seem completely oblivious of www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
The Downsides of "Deterrence" | ACLU
Surveillance Boosters Tout the Benefits of Deterrence, But There’s a Big Problem With That
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If you liked what you saw with the invasion of Minneapolis and what's going on now in Memphis, you'll love this program www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Trump Administration Hijacks Police Grants to Leverage Local Police For Its Authoritarian Ends | ACLU
We’ve already seen what that looks like in places like Memphis; New “Model Cities Initiative” would spread it to other cities
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This case could deter journalism and research in the public interest and threaten criminal and civil liability for the use of common browser extensions. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Sigificant Internet Freedom Issues at Stake in Legal Battle Between Amazon and Perplexity | ACLU
Outcome of case could severely limit user control and the rights of researchers and journalists on the Web
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We can debate the civil liberties problems with a new technology all day long, but if the tech doesn’t work, why bother? www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Studies Question Value of AI-Assisted Police Reports | ACLU
Researchers asked experienced police supervisors to rate police reports, some of which were written by humans and some by AI
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Public records obtained by a privacy activist/researcher suggest troubling face recognition program is being used in more problematic ways than first reported. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law | ACLU
City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
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More reasons cities & towns should be waring of embracing driver mass-surveillance technology... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Municipalities: Beware of Changes in Flock’s Legal Terms if You’re Using or Considering License Plate Readers | ACLU
A flurry of Flock contract changes disempower customers
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Other states need to give this issue the thought and care it deserves before creating digital ID systems that will be used by big tech and other companies to track and control individuals www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Utah Passes Nation’s Strongest Digital Identity Bill | ACLU
Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals
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Ultimate responsibility for the Trump Administration’s immigrant kidnapping campaign lies with the Trump Administration itself. But just how involved is Palantir, and how should we judge its culpability? www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
All the Ways Palantir is Assisting Trump’s Abusive Removal Campaign | ACLU
How culpable is the company for the constitutional and human rights violations of the deportation drive?
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We're hearing more examples of the use of drones for intimidation. That's exacerbated by an ongoing lack of transparency about drone flights. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Drones for Intimidation | ACLU
Despite talk of "drones for good" from boosters, we're seeing a new, darker law enforcement “use case” for the technology
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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.
Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out | ACLU
Think twice about sending video from your home to companies, and possibly police and hackers
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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... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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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
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6mo agoGreat piece from @jaystanley.bsky.social of the ACLU on the shocking overreach of the FAA’s new rules that ban drones from flying within 3000 feet of even concealed and moving ICE and DHS vehicles: www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Trump Administration Claims Sweeping New Power to Take Down Any Drone it Doesn’t Like | ACLU
Baffling order is likely a move to block drone photography of DHS operations in violation of First Amendment
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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?
Retailers Secretively Using Face Recognition to Spot “Persons of Interest” — Including For the Government | ACLU
Are Wegmans and other retailers participating in the Trump war on immigrants?
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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... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Flock CEO Goes Ballistic on Critics as More Americans Question Mass Driver Surveillance | ACLU
CEO attacks motives of people who care about privacy, says they are trying to “normalize lawlessness” and “let murderers go free”
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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.
How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps | ACLU
States That Adopt Digital Driver’s Licenses Need to Rethink How IDs are Revoked
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Using an LLM with your secure messaging service, as Meta proposes, brings new risks to the architecture that protects privacy and security. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Secure Messaging and AI Don’t Mix | ACLU
A Privacy Failure Waiting to Happen
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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. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
The AI Trapdoor Lying in Wait for Workers | ACLU
“The pilots were well aware of which lever to pull. It was ‘human error’ that caused the mistake. But laying the blame on the pilots wasn’t ever going to solve the problem.”
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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.'" www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Another Police Use of AI | ACLU
Axon’s “Policy Chat” product seeks to give officers guidance on department policies and procedures
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@ACLU demanding more information on violations of photographer's rights, including DHS policy directives, training materials, legal analyses, and communications www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...
Immigration Agents are Retaliating Against People Who Record Them | ACLU
We’re filing a FOIA to find out how deep the problem goes
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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 www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency | ACLU
AP report reveals how the agency uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers
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