Escaped Delaware in 1990, cosplayed a scientist at Santa Fe Institute, Human Interface Technology Lab @ UW, got tired of being broke, practiced software engineering, radicalized by independent music and the bravery and resilience of my LGBTQIA+ friends.
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your CommunityWhile attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.newrepublic.com
EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social spoke with @cnn.com about the anti-ALPR sentiment sweeping the nation. “Once people start learning about the massive scale of the data that’s being collected and who it’s being accessed by, it starts to freak them out.”
Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNNFrom coast to coast, Americans across the political spectrum have been taking official or vigilante action against the always-on, searchable camera network.www.cnn.com
When Bruce Harrell was mayor, SPD kept information around a potential serial killer in Capitol Hill and First Hill from the public for a number of weeks, something that did not get as much media attention as a press conference being delayed for three hours. www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/05/poli...
Handing your ID to a bouncer shouldn’t mean signing up for a private database. Californians deserve to know why bars are collecting and sharing information from your government-issued IDs and sharing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. For venues serving vulnerablewww.eff.org
PDX, OR circa 2020. Yeah. This tweet lives rent-free in my head. And it’s been 6 yrs and they sing the same tune: “Pay for body cameras not Abolish ICE”. It’s part of why I got more involved in Dem politics and trying to push the party Left (revolutionize it?) rather than just bitching.
"The imbalance of power between citizens and law enforcement demands better from law enforcement, but every new tech tool that cops embrace just makes it easier to make more mistakes faster. There’s nothing out there that even slightly suggests pervasive #surveillance is reducing crime" #deflock
Expansion Of Flock Camera Systems Is Leading To Even More False PositivesFlock Safety's aggressive expansion into the law enforcement market has been coupled with nearly constant negative coverage of its tech and its practices. Multiple cities have paused or cancelled their agreements with Flock following public outcry over the surveillance tech. Flock's willingness to allow law enforcement agencies to search a nationwide network of cameras has...www.techdirt.com
🎯 The national security angle on effectively banning not only Chinese EVs but, as it has turned out, also US- and SK-assembled EVs from Chinese-owned automakers also is very stupid.
Karl Bodedo people understand what a monumentally xenophobic, protectionist shitshow this is all going to be
