Albert Fox Cahn 🦊
@foxcahn.bsky.social
@STOPSpyingNY founder; @CarrCenter @yaleisp, @ashoka, & @TEDTalks fellow; 100+ bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, Wired, etc. Was @WeilGotshal & @Harvard_Law. He/him
When you haven't finished the marathon, but are already planning the next one.and the one after that. 😂
If you didn't get in off the #SydneyMarathon lottery, join me in raising money for @stopspyingny.bsky.social down under next summer and this spring en Paris!
www.stopspying.org/marathons
If you didn't get in off the #SydneyMarathon lottery, join me in raising money for @stopspyingny.bsky.social down under next summer and this spring en Paris!
www.stopspying.org/marathons
Marathons — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
Sign up to run for Team S.T.O.P. for any of the listed half and full marathons!
www.stopspying.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When you haven't finished the marathon, but are already planning the next one.and the one after that. 😂
If you didn't get in off the #SydneyMarathon lottery, join me in raising money for @stopspyingny.bsky.social down under next summer and this spring en Paris!
www.stopspying.org/marathons
If you didn't get in off the #SydneyMarathon lottery, join me in raising money for @stopspyingny.bsky.social down under next summer and this spring en Paris!
www.stopspying.org/marathons
What the hell is this?
October 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
What the hell is this?
So proud of my colleagues at @stopspyingny.bsky.social, our partners at @ecbawm.com, and our amazing clients!!!! This sort of lawsuit is the reason I founded STOP, and the culmination of so many years of work.
theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...
theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...
An NYPD Camera Points Directly Into Their Bedroom. They’re Suing the City Over It.
The NYPD’s little-noted citywide surveillance system draws on a vast network of public and private cameras.
theintercept.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
So proud of my colleagues at @stopspyingny.bsky.social, our partners at @ecbawm.com, and our amazing clients!!!! This sort of lawsuit is the reason I founded STOP, and the culmination of so many years of work.
theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...
theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...
British friends, excited that UK preorders for my 1st book are live! @evanselinger.bsky.social and I explain why the DOGE (move fast & break things) approach is broken and how we can fix huge problems by moving slow and upgrading. You can get 25% off until Friday! www.waterstones.com/book/move-sl...
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
British friends, excited that UK preorders for my 1st book are live! @evanselinger.bsky.social and I explain why the DOGE (move fast & break things) approach is broken and how we can fix huge problems by moving slow and upgrading. You can get 25% off until Friday! www.waterstones.com/book/move-sl...
My latest piece! I explore the crazy world of #running products and all of the unproven inventions that are inundating my digital life. www.businessinsider.com/rise-running...
How the world's simplest sport became so tech-obsessed
I fell in love with running. Then the Instagram ads started flooding in.
www.businessinsider.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My latest piece! I explore the crazy world of #running products and all of the unproven inventions that are inundating my digital life. www.businessinsider.com/rise-running...
Watching what’s happening to CBS News is really terrifying. If we keep losing the integrity / independence of institutions like major broadcasters, universities, and newspapers, eventually there won’t be much left that actually ensures the most bedrock elements of an open democratic society.
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Watching what’s happening to CBS News is really terrifying. If we keep losing the integrity / independence of institutions like major broadcasters, universities, and newspapers, eventually there won’t be much left that actually ensures the most bedrock elements of an open democratic society.
Why is it so much harder to find new music now than it was a decade ago? It feels like all of this streaming services. Just use their AI to recycle the same familiar artist and tracks over and over again. It should be the golden Age of music discovery, but it feels like the dark ages instead.
October 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Why is it so much harder to find new music now than it was a decade ago? It feels like all of this streaming services. Just use their AI to recycle the same familiar artist and tracks over and over again. It should be the golden Age of music discovery, but it feels like the dark ages instead.
#CharlieKirk says some awful things, but that doesn’t make his shooting any less awful. The more we normalize political violence, the more quickly we doom our democracy. A zealot with a gun can inflict grievous wounds, but they can’t delegitimize the ideology they fight. They only make it stronger.
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#CharlieKirk says some awful things, but that doesn’t make his shooting any less awful. The more we normalize political violence, the more quickly we doom our democracy. A zealot with a gun can inflict grievous wounds, but they can’t delegitimize the ideology they fight. They only make it stronger.
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"A lot of these predictive tools can create unintended errors where certain communities are underserved or misunderstood because of how the model missed or wrongly accounted for individuals’ risks in that community." @foxcahn.bsky.social #AI
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/a...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/a...
From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life
Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.
www.themarshallproject.org
September 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"A lot of these predictive tools can create unintended errors where certain communities are underserved or misunderstood because of how the model missed or wrongly accounted for individuals’ risks in that community." @foxcahn.bsky.social #AI
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/a...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/a...
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BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man
"Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition
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"Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
www.stopspying.org
August 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man
"Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
"Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
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It was such an honor to have @foxcahn.bsky.social from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project on my podcast to talk about all the horrible invasive ways big tech is using “child safety” to dismantle civil liberties online and off.
Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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August 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It was such an honor to have @foxcahn.bsky.social from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project on my podcast to talk about all the horrible invasive ways big tech is using “child safety” to dismantle civil liberties online and off.
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August 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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So excited to be able to partner with the amazing folks at @proton.me (especially Chris Cannucciari and Julia Jade Duffy) for this project on privacy and mass surveillance! youtu.be/QpFw7dk9l-0?...
Privacy Advocate Exposes All The Ways You're Being Surveilled
YouTube video by Proton
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
So excited to be able to partner with the amazing folks at @proton.me (especially Chris Cannucciari and Julia Jade Duffy) for this project on privacy and mass surveillance! youtu.be/QpFw7dk9l-0?...
After Tea’s recent breaches, with 70,000 user images allegedly leaked to, I decided to test out their facial verification for myself. Turned out I could break in in just a few minutes. 😬So why is creepy facial surveillance becoming such a big part of digital life? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Facial-Recognition Sham
Surveillance won’t make the internet safer.
www.theatlantic.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
After Tea’s recent breaches, with 70,000 user images allegedly leaked to, I decided to test out their facial verification for myself. Turned out I could break in in just a few minutes. 😬So why is creepy facial surveillance becoming such a big part of digital life? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
(1) As I see people denying the awful reality of Gaza, "fact checking" images of starving children for not being the perfect victims, it's hard to know what could possibly break through the wall of misinformation.
July 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
(1) As I see people denying the awful reality of Gaza, "fact checking" images of starving children for not being the perfect victims, it's hard to know what could possibly break through the wall of misinformation.
I’ve seen some lackluster political events, but the anti-#Mamdani protest at Union Square is channeling a new level of desperation. Basically just organizers and camera crews. Highlights include chants in support of DeSantis and moving to Florida that drew looks of revulsion from onlookers. 🙄🙄🙄
July 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’ve seen some lackluster political events, but the anti-#Mamdani protest at Union Square is channeling a new level of desperation. Basically just organizers and camera crews. Highlights include chants in support of DeSantis and moving to Florida that drew looks of revulsion from onlookers. 🙄🙄🙄
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“The NYPD keeps using these incredibly disturbing companies to spy on New Yorkers, while hiding that surveillance from the public & violating NYC law in the process,” said Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Tech.Oversight Project. “The FDNY is clearly being complicit in enabling these NYPD abuses.”
A city fire marshal used FDNY’s access to a facial recognition software to help NYPD detectives identify a pro-Palestinian protester at Columbia University, circumventing policies that tightly restrict the Police Department’s use of the technology.
NYPD Bypassed Facial Recognition Ban to ID Pro-Palestinian Student Protester
Barred from using Clearview AI, NYC police relied on a marshal in the fire department to run a search that turned up photos of the student at his high school graduation.
buff.ly
July 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
“The NYPD keeps using these incredibly disturbing companies to spy on New Yorkers, while hiding that surveillance from the public & violating NYC law in the process,” said Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Tech.Oversight Project. “The FDNY is clearly being complicit in enabling these NYPD abuses.”
So many who baselessly claimed Mamdani is an antisemite are shockingly silent when Trump justifies his estate tax roll back by saying “Shylock” bankers are coming for family farms. It’s beyond a double standard, it’s complicity in the politicization and horrifying normalization of antisemitism.
July 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So many who baselessly claimed Mamdani is an antisemite are shockingly silent when Trump justifies his estate tax roll back by saying “Shylock” bankers are coming for family farms. It’s beyond a double standard, it’s complicity in the politicization and horrifying normalization of antisemitism.
So the headline is more incindiary than I would have liked, but so glad the Daily News let me speak to this moment and why Mamdani’s election is good for NYC Jews. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/01/m...
July 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So the headline is more incindiary than I would have liked, but so glad the Daily News let me speak to this moment and why Mamdani’s election is good for NYC Jews. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/01/m...
We are witnessing the fracturing of the US Constitution in real time. This order brings us closer to a day where the bill of rights will once again be a dead letter in so many states. 😢
Live Updates: Supreme Court Uses Birthright Citizenship Case to Limit Use of Nationwide Injunctions
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We are witnessing the fracturing of the US Constitution in real time. This order brings us closer to a day where the bill of rights will once again be a dead letter in so many states. 😢
So happy,
so relieved,
so stunned.
so relieved,
so stunned.
June 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
So happy,
so relieved,
so stunned.
so relieved,
so stunned.
I still think that any lead Cuomo has in 1st place votes will vanish as other candidates are knocked out and their votes are reassigned to Brad & Zohran. Been proud to work with both of them for years and I think either could be an exceptional mayor. And I know Cuomo would be a nightmare for NYC.
June 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I still think that any lead Cuomo has in 1st place votes will vanish as other candidates are knocked out and their votes are reassigned to Brad & Zohran. Been proud to work with both of them for years and I think either could be an exceptional mayor. And I know Cuomo would be a nightmare for NYC.
There are lots of reasons to oppose the Iranian government, but none of them are a good reason for war.
Bombing a country does NOT improve its human rights.
Toppling a government does NOT build a stable region.
How many times must we learn the lesson that we CAN’T fight our way to peace?
Bombing a country does NOT improve its human rights.
Toppling a government does NOT build a stable region.
How many times must we learn the lesson that we CAN’T fight our way to peace?
June 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
There are lots of reasons to oppose the Iranian government, but none of them are a good reason for war.
Bombing a country does NOT improve its human rights.
Toppling a government does NOT build a stable region.
How many times must we learn the lesson that we CAN’T fight our way to peace?
Bombing a country does NOT improve its human rights.
Toppling a government does NOT build a stable region.
How many times must we learn the lesson that we CAN’T fight our way to peace?
Mourning dashed hopes for peace and the needless deaths on our screens. Once again, political opportunism and feigned necessity lead us to war, showing how little those in power today have learned from the follies of our past.
June 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Mourning dashed hopes for peace and the needless deaths on our screens. Once again, political opportunism and feigned necessity lead us to war, showing how little those in power today have learned from the follies of our past.