“This administration considers undocumented people criminals,” said Council Member Carlos Romero. “They want to round up a million people a year.”

#surveillance #privacy #immigrantrights #eastpaloalto
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Flock cameras record every passing plate and store footage for 30 days. While police say the system helps solve crimes, residents and council members warned that the data could still end up in federal hands, despite local bans on immigration enforcement use.
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Reporter Joseph Cox walked through the process of telling the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) to stop selling his data and it worked.

Read the full how-to: “How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government.”

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Privacy experts warn this will supercharge racial profiling, expand mass surveillance, and risk wrongful detentions of U.S. citizens.

#immigration #surveillance #privacy #civilrights #facialrecognition
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The app, Mobile Identify, is available on Google Play and built for agencies working with ICE under 287(g) agreements, meaning local cops can now scan faces and send data directly to federal immigration systems.
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If you want to read more, you can check out this article:

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#encryption #privacy #humanrights #surveillance #europe
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This latest version was pushed by the Danish EU presidency, and withdrawn only after intense public and civil society pressure.

It’ll likely come back again under a new name.

Encryption protects journalists, activists, and ordinary people.
Breaking it doesn’t make anyone safer.
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What is Chat Control?

It’s a recurring EU proposal that would force devices and apps like Signal, WhatsApp, or iMessage to scan every photo, video, and message before encryption, supposedly to detect illegal content.

In reality, it opens the door to mass surveillance of private communications.
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Companies could receive bundles of 10,000 names at a time, using surveillance tech and “time-stamped photographs” to confirm addresses before reporting them to ICE.

The plan mirrors a proposal from former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, previously pushing for a similar bounty system.

#privacy
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Meanwhile, ICE is using AI-driven surveillance tools from Zignal Labs and Palantir to monitor social media and identify targets.

The smartphone has become a double-edged sword, a tool for both resistance and control.

#privacy #surveillance #immigration #ice #techpolicy #digitalrights

Eyes on OpenAI, a coalition of 60+ nonprofits, says the restructure risks setting a dangerous precedent for other tech giants.

#openai #accountability #transparency #california #techpolicy