Part of the myth of Ring is that this is MY camera on MY door--but when you see a map and realize that there are a hundred in your neighborhood and they're all connected by a corporation that serves the police, the illusion dissolves.

Ring’s Founder Knows You Hated That Super Bowl Ad

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In case it wasn't clear, we are the dogs. And we're not lost. www.404media.co/leaked-email...

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

404media.co

This is a common refrain in tech policy spaces and specifically with stories about surveillance. But it just conveys cynicism at the expense of putting forward a productive vision of how to make people’s lives better. We can do much better.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

as expected it's shaping up to be an all time day for people saying "i already knew that" to something they assumed to be true but didnt actually know to be true. maybe a record breaking day

surprising amount of chilling of dissent in this new era of tech companies and the government collaborating to stand up for free speech etc

rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 6mo ago

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The social media companies must do more to stand up to these demands, many of which are illegal. This week @eff.org and @aclu-norcal.bsky.social sent the companies a letter explaining what they should do to protect people’s privacy and free speech. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas

EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.

eff.org

Sheera Frenkel@sheeraf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The federal government is abusing its power by targeting people who speak out against Trump administration policies online. Alongside @eff.org we're calling on tech companies to resist DHS's lawless demands to turn over user data without a court order.

Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas

EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.

eff.org

Proud to be part of the ACLU team opposing DHS attempts to harass and intimidate people exercising their First Amendment rights.

Jake Snow@snowjake.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses. Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Department of Homeland Security is issuing lawless subpoenas for online user data. Tech companies need to do more to fight back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS

EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.

eff.org

Google promises to give users notice before turning their data over to law enforcement. This gives users an opportunity to challenge unlawful requests. Sometimes, it breaks that promise to avoid delays.

The Intercept@theintercept.com · 6mo ago

Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn’t know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena until months later. Google never gave him a chance to fight it. interc.pt/3O07xke

California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of @governor.ca.gov and the CA Dept of Transportation.

Coalition Urges California to Revoke Permits for Federal License Plate Reader Surveillance

SAN FRANCISCO – California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to put automated license plate readers al...

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Once again, DHS withdraws an illegal and unconstitutional subpoena after the ACLU challenges it in court. This is the third time in about as many months.

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

BREAKING: After we sued, DHS withdrew a subpoena seeking personal information about our client who criticized DHS' treatment of a man seeking asylum. This is a win not just for our client, but for everyone’s First Amendment right to speak out without fear of government retaliation.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?

Bad Bunny is the best and we are going to win

Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 6mo ago

Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE: End the roving patrols and racial profiling. Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police. Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.

This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.

@slinkylink.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The ProPublica story on the Pretti killers says DHS has bodycam footage from the incident but they refuse to release it www.propublica.org/article/alex...

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

ICE is afraid of children protesting

“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

theverge.com

DHS is waging a bi-coastal assault on the free speech rights of people speaking truth about power. Last fall, in a separate case, the agency unsuccessfully sought the identity of our client who discusses ICE activity on Instagram. www.aclunorcal.org/press-releas...

DHS Withdraws Subpoena Seeking to Unmask Instagram Users Who Posted About ICE Raids - ACLU of Norcal

A Victory for the Public's Right to Document Government Actions Without Retaliation

aclunorcal.org

Jennifer Granick@granick.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Homeland Security is targeting Americans who criticize it with unfounded investigations fueled by judicially-unsupervised administrative subpoenas. This article tells the story of our client who was so targeted. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Homeland Security is targeting Americans who criticize it with unfounded investigations fueled by judicially-unsupervised administrative subpoenas. This article tells the story of our client who was so targeted. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon

Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

washingtonpost.com

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.

There's absolutely no reason for the average person to believe these are agents of the state and not just three dudes with an Amazon account.

The tools Americans pay for so ICE can spy on them www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters

Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

washingtonpost.com

wake up babe new perverse incentive just dropped

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

MinnMax@minnmax.com · 6mo ago

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

This is the restoration of free expression that Zuckerberg promised when Trump retook office last year.

David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 6mo ago

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.

Steve Middlebrook@stmdc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here is the child’s drawing.