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Privacy Maverick

@privacymaverick.bsky.social

Privacy provocateur

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h ago

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social · 6h ago

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

MapQuest@mapquest.com · 19h ago

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Daniel Solove@daniel-solove.bsky.social · yesterday

Surprise, surprise! The TSA isn't properly safeguarding facial recognition data. But don't worry, if it's leaked or hacked, you can just get a new face. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

DHS Inspector General Finds That TSA is Not Properly Safeguarding Passenger Facial Recognition Data

EFF legal intern Gabrielle Ladun was the principal author of this post. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) has published a summary of findings from its audit of ...

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Privacy Maverick@privacymaverick.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m not licensed in MD but as a lawyer in Florida who litigates FSCA cases (934 F.S. Florida’s wiretap law), I can say this is not the case in Florida. You’re in a public setting and you’re aware you’re being recorded. I may disagree with it, but the law generally allows recording in that context.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 2d ago

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 4d ago

My father used to talk about this in medicine—occasionally you’d find some “common knowledge” factoid that, it you followed it back five hops down the citation chain, always terminated with some poorly designed 15-person study from the 30s that was wildly inadequate to support the claim.

Alfie Kohn@alfiekohn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 4d ago

Famously, judges who ask question like “when did you decide to do this” are happy and not at all about to order sanctions.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 4d ago

Judge Reyes has ordered cessation of all tree removal at the golf course until at least tomorrow. Also provides remote call-in number for hearing on temporary restraining order. She wants to know, inter alia, who ordered tree removal & how long govt attys have known of this plan.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 6d ago

Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2

The evidence points to numerous failings on the part of both ICE and the officers who testified, including: 1. evasive and apparently perjurious testimony by the ICE agents, including the testimony concerning supposed observations of the petitioner engaging in drug transactions, which bear all the hallmarks of coordinated fabrication,12 the absence of any recovered drugs, paraphernalia or cash from the petitioner, the failure of the agents to follow up upon these supposed observations or refer the matter to another law enforcement agency, and the notable absence of any reference to these observations in the voluminous documentary records, further undermining the agents' testimony; 2. the seemingly reflexive, though false, claims that the petitioner was "misidentified" as the target of the operation; 3. fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents authorities and duties; 4. illegality of the arrest and detention of petitioner and Concepcion; 5. the post-arrest documents, which not only were procedurally and legally suspect, but contain false statements;Notably, in its filings, Government counsel has not referenced this testimony, seemingly abandoning any argument predicated upon these sworn assertions by the agents. 6. the database search process used to justify the administrative warrant, as described by the ranking supervisory officer, which appears designed to generate misleading information in official records; and 7. the inexperience of the agents involved, their woeful lack of proper training, understanding of law, policies and procedures, and their ready recourse to false testimony to conceal these failings.
Christina Ayiotis@christinaayiotis.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website

The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.

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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · last wk.

The administration that continues to cover up for pedophiles simply cannot be trusted with the care of hundreds of unaccompanied children with no oversight and no transparency

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

Serious Privacy & Data Protection (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🍍🇪🇺@igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu · 7d ago

Why did I choose #Kickstarter to launch @seriousprivacy.eu the data game? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ser...

Update 8: Why Kickstarter? 🎲 · Serious Privacy: The Data Game

A few people have asked me why I chose Kickstarter to launch Serious Privacy: The Data Game, so I thought I'd explain.The simple answer is: I need to know if there is an audience before I buy stock.Ma...

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404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.

‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.

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