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mila425.bsky.social @mila425.bsky.social · 12h

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks for sharing EFF's work!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 New assistant prof job posting at LSE with a focus on crime and criminal justice

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Assistant Professor, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <spa...

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 14h

New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16h

A county commissioner tried to take down a License Plate Reader in his jurisdiction where elected officials had ended their contract w/ Flock. Police arrested him.

Who really runs these counties? Politicians gave blank checks to police and are now learning the genie is out of the bottle.

Camden County commissioner pleads guilty to misdemeanor for removing Flock camera

A Camden County commissioner has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from taking down a Flock camera on Highway 54.Todd Isaac Skelton pleaded guilty

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Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 18h

What could possibly go wrong with putting giant microphones in cities, funded by law enforcement?

via @mguariglia.bsky.social for @eff.org

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices

Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product ...

www.eff.org

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 19h

EFF found the documents, here's our blog:

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

www.eff.org

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 19h

🚨🚨 Both the police and Flock's defense for why Texas police searched the entire country for License Plate Reader data to find woman who had self-administered an abortion was because she was a missing person and family was concerned with her health. Now documents reveal they wanted to charge her.

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 20h

To put it another way, I have represented thousands of people. I cannot think of a single instance in which the initial police report was entirely correct. Not one.

Journalists, please stop copying them down as if they were. Or at least give context re credibility!

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

"The ability for law enforcement in some states to get access to data and digital surveillance data from other states is going to be a massive problem," EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Reason.com. reason.com/2025/10/06/...

Texas and Florida have become national models for using the police state to wage culture war battles

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

reason.com

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

We'll see how much longer it's available after this!

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people who have ignored this are also about to learn really *really* quickly that when police control when cameras turn on, footage storage, and release of footage, body-worn cameras are much more a tool of surveillance and state propaganda than accountability.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

“If (AI crime prediction is) paired with invasive technologies such as face recognition, which itself reflects biases and makes errors that have led to false arrests, the potential harm is exponential," EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Mashable.com.
mashable.com/article/ai-...

AI-powered security systems invite 'Minority Report' comparisons

Generative AI has become a much bigger player in the security sector. But privacy experts worry that it's introducing a civil liberties nightmare.

mashable.com

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 2d

Who could have predicted that third party verification programs collecting IDs to age gate content would have all their data hacked?! Oh right…..everyone!

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d

A San Francisco Supervisor wants to amend a landmark surveillance law so it is harder to sue police when they spy on you illegally. Police are not above the law and this policy change will result in one thing: more illegal surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Hey, San Francisco, There Should be Consequences When Police Spy

A San Francisco supervisor has proposed that police and other city agencies should have no financial consequences for breaking a landmark surveillance oversight law. In 2019, organizations from

www.eff.org

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · Jul 18

My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model.

This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 3d

I should fill you in on that RTCC convention I went to.

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 3d

Folks need to be paying attention to the growth of Real-Time Crime Centers. It is not just NYC, but they tend to lead on these things. www.biometricupdate.com/202510/nypd-...

NYPD turns public housing Internet program into surveillance network | Biometric Update

Officers are now able to watch New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents through a live feed connected to NYPD’s Domain Awareness System (DAS).

www.biometricupdate.com

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 4d

Of course! Wild stuff.

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 4d

I’m watching the Jonathan Demme/Denzel Washington Manchurian Candidate remake and not only do I think it’s fantastic—I also think it might be a defining film to capture the era of the endless war on terror.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 5d

Ads reveal that Flock, makers of automated license plate readers and other surveillance technology, are promising to introduce "Distress detection" into their gunshot detection devices which will alert police when it hears human voices in distress, including screaming.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

An add that says "Safety you can see and now hear: Detect sounds of human distress and cover the blind stops that cameras miss with Distress Detection" with an alert that says "screaming" and an address.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4d

“The judge or the prosecutor doesn't know which portions were written by the AI and which portions were written by the officer,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told KPBS News. “It interjects a lot of uncertainty — and a lot of deniability for the officer.” www.kpbs.org/news/public...

Chula Vista, police reports and AI: What you need to know

San Diego County's second-largest city is embracing AI tools for policing as California considers new regulations.

www.kpbs.org

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 4d

It amazes me that politicians continuously sell us the idea of policing as the only route to peace and safety when with our own eyes, everyday, from the Punisher logo to this, we are forced to confront the fact that they outwardly present themselves as a death and violence cult.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 4d

reddit occupied government

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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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