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hudson

@knifedog.bsky.social

dog with a knife. press guy at @eff.org. opinions are my own.

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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12h ago

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

404media.co

DS (he/him)@beenafix.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I know Brutalist Architecture is not a favorite genre in the US, but the idea of tearing down Dallas City Hall is ridiculous. It is a part of the urban core, it is very unique, and I love how it differentiates the city. www.savedallascityhall.com

Save Dallas City Hall | Dallas, TX

The future of Dallas City Hall is too important to be decided in shady back-room dealings or on numbers no one trusts. Contact your council person today! Save Dallas City Hall!

savedallascityhall.com

hudson@knifedog.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"[Clovis police] monitored the walkout in real time with a network of approximately 500 cameras" "[Police] have identified two adults at the protest and are working to identify the others [...] with plans to file misdemeanor charges for 'Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor.'"

Clovis police pursue charges against parents who attended ICE student walkout

Police will pursue misdemeanor charges for two adults identified via surveillance cameras at this week’s anti-ICE student protest in Clovis.

fresnobee.com

hudson@knifedog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"selling the personal info of Alzheimer’s patients" might sound like a cybercrime gang racket but nah it's just some everyday shit in the mass surveillance economy

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Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Knowing how often face recognition and other AI-based recognition and decision making tech gets things wrong--to take its decision as unimpeachable even if a person can *prove* they're a US citizen is unspeakably bad.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 11mo ago

EFF’s Hudson Hongo opens the EFF Awards: “If you’re here, you believe in a better future and recognize the central role of technology as we work to build one. I'm thrilled to help celebrate some remarkable individuals and organizations that have led the way towards that future.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Teenager is woken by police in the middle of the night. “As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”

Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students' Homes

Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves — and sending the police to their homes.

futurism.com

hudson@knifedog.bsky.social · 2y ago

Minority Report promised us wet little freaks that dream about murder and instead we got the WolfCryer3000, a million-dollar computer that goes AWOOGA whenever it detects brown people

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ceej@ceej.online · 2y ago

just won the lottery!! I don’t even remember buying a ticket lmao. I can see all the townspeople coming over right now, probably wanna congratulate me. probably jealous lol

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago

A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old www.404media.co/paralyzed-jo...

Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton

Michael Straight learned to walk again with the help of an exoskeleton. After an accessory to the device broke, the company refused to fix it.

404media.co

hudson@knifedog.bsky.social · 2y ago

not a coincidence, i think, that this is the most interesting twitter clone to read and also the one where i most often see a post and think ‘oh, twitter drove you insane’