Privacy Maverick
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It will be interesting to see if any of the parties plead the fifth in response to being required to file a declaration.
Here are the right 2 pages. Sorry:
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It will be interesting to see if any of the parties plead the fifth in response to being required to file a declaration.
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To see "whether Secy Noem or anyone else should be referred for potential contempt prosecution," Judge Boasberg orders filing of declarations by "all individuals involved" in decision not to turn around the flights to CECOT on 3/15-16/25.
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
To see "whether Secy Noem or anyone else should be referred for potential contempt prosecution," Judge Boasberg orders filing of declarations by "all individuals involved" in decision not to turn around the flights to CECOT on 3/15-16/25.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We depend on the public's support for defending the rule of law. We continue to file lawsuits to challenge the destructive activities of James O'Keefe, who has caused the termination of employment of several of our clients.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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“Commissioners voted 2-1 to undo the agency’s previous declaration that .. CALEA ‘affirmatively requires telecommunications carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications,’ & to eliminate proposed standards ..” www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-eli...
FCC eliminates cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies
Commissioners sharply disagreed over whether the rules were appropriate and necessary.
www.cybersecuritydive.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“Commissioners voted 2-1 to undo the agency’s previous declaration that .. CALEA ‘affirmatively requires telecommunications carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications,’ & to eliminate proposed standards ..” www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-eli...
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Smart meter data can reveal intimate details inside your home. A court just ruled police can’t run dragnet surveillance on that data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in
For more than a decade, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District coordinated with police to sift through the granular smart meter data of residents without suspicion to find evidence of cannabis
www.eff.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Smart meter data can reveal intimate details inside your home. A court just ruled police can’t run dragnet surveillance on that data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
An unearthed video shows Former Defense Secretary Esper saying #Shit4Brains wanted to shoot protesters. “Can’t you just shoot them?” This is why our military needs the reminder about unlawful orders.
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An unearthed video shows Former Defense Secretary Esper saying #Shit4Brains wanted to shoot protesters. “Can’t you just shoot them?” This is why our military needs the reminder about unlawful orders.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
An unearthed video shows Former Defense Secretary Esper saying #Shit4Brains wanted to shoot protesters. “Can’t you just shoot them?” This is why our military needs the reminder about unlawful orders.
Share this widely.
An unearthed video shows Former Defense Secretary Esper saying #Shit4Brains wanted to shoot protesters. “Can’t you just shoot them?” This is why our military needs the reminder about unlawful orders.
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BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
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NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
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Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.
Google stopped letting owners of early Nest themostats remotely control their devices last month. But it's still remotely collecting extensive surveillance data from them: https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection #privacy
Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats
The thermostats may no longer connect to Google’s app, but they still transmit your data.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.
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Thankfully my dad naturalized but this literally could be him. Born to refugees after WWII, emigrated to the US in 1949
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Thankfully my dad naturalized but this literally could be him. Born to refugees after WWII, emigrated to the US in 1949
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November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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A survey of 300 attendees at the Cerebral Valley AI Conference asking which AI startup attendees thought was most likely to fail ranked Perplexity in the top position.
Second place? OpenAI.
Second place? OpenAI.
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A survey of 300 attendees at the Cerebral Valley AI Conference asking which AI startup attendees thought was most likely to fail ranked Perplexity in the top position.
Second place? OpenAI.
Second place? OpenAI.
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All the good stuff is going away and all the bad stuff is multiplying - a 2025 lament.
“WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau” — current.org/2025/11/weta...
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
All the good stuff is going away and all the bad stuff is multiplying - a 2025 lament.
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“Honestly, it is pretty abhorrent that the city tried to make all of these arguments in the first place, but it’s great that the court reaffirmed that these are public records,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @404media.co.
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“Honestly, it is pretty abhorrent that the city tried to make all of these arguments in the first place, but it’s great that the court reaffirmed that these are public records,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @404media.co.
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This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
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President Trump’s housing finance director, Bill Pulte, fired internal watchdogs at Fannie Mae who were looking into multiple complaints against a high-ranking company officer close to him, according to people familiar with the matter.
Housing official Bill Pulte fired ethics workers who were looking into his ally
The actions have also sowed uncertainty and undermined confidence in Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte across the housing finance industry.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
President Trump’s housing finance director, Bill Pulte, fired internal watchdogs at Fannie Mae who were looking into multiple complaints against a high-ranking company officer close to him, according to people familiar with the matter.
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BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
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Does this imply that the CNIL and other Data Protection Authorities will no longer have jurisdiction over matters concerning cross-border cookies?
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Does this imply that the CNIL and other Data Protection Authorities will no longer have jurisdiction over matters concerning cross-border cookies?
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R.I.P. GDPR!
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
R.I.P. GDPR!
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The Trump administration could allow the Department of Homeland Security to collect immigrant children's DNA and other sensitive biometric information, from the sound of their voice to the unique identifiers in their eyes.
This endangers all of our civil liberties.
This endangers all of our civil liberties.
DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says
Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.
arstechnica.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Trump administration could allow the Department of Homeland Security to collect immigrant children's DNA and other sensitive biometric information, from the sound of their voice to the unique identifiers in their eyes.
This endangers all of our civil liberties.
This endangers all of our civil liberties.
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Women should not get credit for men’s accomplishments. </sarcasm>
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Women should not get credit for men’s accomplishments. </sarcasm>