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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13h

This was only a matter of time. In a very real way, the net effect of networked license plate readers is more like putting a GPS device on a car than it is like driving past individual security cameras. And if police wanted to track you over time w/ GPS device or your phone---they'd need a warrant.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Surveillance and Autonomous warfare are an important part of a cycle that siphons billions off the US in the form of contracts for technology with heinous effects, CEOs who get rich and have ideologies that necessitate the deployment of their tech, and the politicians propped up by that money.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The NYPD hired their first statisticians to use math to find crime in *1916*---predictive policing and AI in governance are often exacerbating deep-seated problems and to address them we can't just address AI, we also need to address the bigger issues.

A new yor times article from 1916. Headline: "Arithmetic used to detect crimes" and the subhead "police department employs it with success through bureau of statistics."

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“It’s not just to get ALPRs canceled and ignore the fact that your town also uses facial recognition. The movement has been aware that they need a holistic approach toward going after one target at a time, but never losing sight that it is one small piece of a larger problem.”

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Flock is on pause. What about all that other surveillance tech we use? – Matter News

Columbus has had a contract with Shotspotter, an AI-powered gunshot detection microphone system, since 2018.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If there’s a “Guariglia’s law” it’s this: if ever a company draws an “ethical line” of something they won’t do, specifically around technology, surveillance, or weaponry, there is always another company willing to step in, do the dirty work, and offer the evil products others won’t.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last jedi tried to make an important point that anyone, no matter where you’re from, can rise to have galactic consequence. Rise of Skywalker undermined it totally and made the triology about how only a small few families matter and Importance is only derived from your blood.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have, without a doubt, met some of my closest friends by volunteering to canvas for candidates I believed in.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't get over this. It reminds me of Emma Goldman talking about drinking really good wine for the first time and realizing that working class people should be able to access culture and goods usually reserved only for the wealthy. Good art should belong to everyone!

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I spoke to a local reporter recently who said Flock follows the "typical cycle" of coverage--regurgitating glowing press releases, then skepticism, then covering the outrage. Reminder: You don't have to take police or companies' word for how safe, effective, or cool tech is even if its new.

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"Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The imagined consolidation of ethnic groups based on current nations would be heresy to the racist scientists of the 19th century that the far right picture themselves descendants of. It’s why race science is dumb—these espoused categories get more tiny the further you go back and turn to mush.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...

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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Attorneys for a man tased by ICE in Danbury, Connecticut, last month said in a court filing that they had a similar experience when they tried to visit him in the hospital.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s good to be back in New York.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/09/2026

“Domestic manufacturing is no substitute for accountability over how these systems are built, sold, and used,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @WIRED.com. "The multi-billion dollar industry churning out mass surveillance technology is not safer or more acceptable based on where it is assembled.”

wired.com

Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear

Flock reveals little about where its license plate readers are assembled, but the answer could have geopolitical and cybersecurity implications.

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A troubling development reported by @josephcox.bsky.social about Tangles and Webloc and ICE 🇺🇸 In April 2026, @citizenlab.ca published an extensive overview "Uncovering Webloc", which detailed as much as we could uncover about the firm at the time citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

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Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech

Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance s...

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The only reason Palantir has any foothold in the civilian world is because of austerity politics. If companies or government alike had any respect for a robust well-funded bureaucracy and logistics infrastructure instead of trying to squeeze pennies, it would likely have far fewer customers.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am a firm believer that in your first year of parenthood, the media you latch on to chooses you, you don’t choose it. For odd cable/channel reasons, I have now probably watched a hundred hours of Rick Stein programming and need to know what people in the UK actually think of him.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the important hills I'll die on is that the digital rights space needs more historians because so we understand that many of the problems we're facing stem from pre-digital ways of organizing society and need holistic fixes that don't get bogged down in the high-tech boogeyman of the week.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Google the net worth of the CEO of the Gristedes supermarket chain---> think about how when the price of groceries exceeds "reasonable" it's going to him ----> think about how a state-run grocery store does not need to jack up food prices because there is no CEO who wants to be a billionaire.

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The history of AI development is not rooted in neutral algorithms, but in entrenched systems of power that shape our lives. @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social dives into this history, interrogating who builds this tech, who benefits from it, and who bears the cost.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am highly profitable if you consider the rice pudding I make regularly to be a type of currency.

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the US is set to execute three people in a 24 hour period starting tomorrow. Texas, Georgia, and Alabama are all planning to kill people in their death chambers tomorrow and Thursday. increases in state killings should concern all of us and are a harbinger of worse to come

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

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Video appears to show ICE arrest near CT school bus stop, despite federal denials

ICE has denied it made an arrest at a school bus stop, but confirmed it made 118 arrests in Connecticut that week.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Forward this to every person who thinks police only use this gravely invasive surveillance network only for truly serious crimes.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Police are routinely searching the Flock database without providing any legitimate justification, making a mockery of our civil liberties by logging reasons like "LOL", "LMAO" , "sexy," and "idk" to access sensitive ALPR location data. New investigation from @eff.org

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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke

With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

“…ending the contracts doesn’t necessarily mean the cameras will come down immediately — or that the information they’ve gathered will be deleted anytime soon.”

theverge.com

What happens after a town de-Flocks

Flock is just one piece of the mass surveillance puzzle.

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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of the definitions of the "surveillance state" that I operate under is when a government turns *all* methods of data and information collection---no matter what purpose it was supposed to serve, into surveillance intended for punishment.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Really happy to say that today's episode of @npr.org's Code Switch is wide reaching interview with me about the current state of police surveillance, the harms being caused by this system, and the deep history of how we got here.

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Why we’re all being watched : Code Switch

There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...

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Why we’re all being watched : Code Switch

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It can't just be me, but I am unreasonably excited about the new China Miéville novel coming out next week. His first solo-written fiction in 14 years and it's over 1,000 pages and tells a secret supernatural history of the 20th century British empire.

bostonreview.net

Revenance Event

China Miéville returns to fiction with a secret history of late-twentieth-century Britain.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...

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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch

Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them—and prepare for that. OpenAI didn't. They built a model, removed the safeguards, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

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Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here’s how you’ll get my money: make phones smaller! Sleek and small. If people have to take a phone out of their pocket to sit, it’s too big.

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