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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊

@foxcahn.bsky.social
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@STOPSpyingNY founder; @CarrCenter @yaleisp, @ashoka, & @TEDTalks fellow; 100+ bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, Wired, etc. Was @WeilGotshal & @Harvard_Law. He/him

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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So was that just #MissionAccomplished2.0? 20+ years and countless wars later, and nothing changes.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
So excited to have a new video out with @proton.me!! youtu.be/b1K7yLWs2DM?
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The Tech ICE Uses To Find You
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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 25/02/2026
Come with us to Albert Fox Cahn's @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social event 📗 The 'Move Slow and Upgrade' author spoke to journalist and architect Alison Killing about the challenges of disruptive innovation and the advantages of incremental change. Read more about the book 🔗 cup.org/3ZTeKFn
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So excited that the amazing @shiraovide.bsky.social will join me at NYU for the the US launch of Evan Selinger's and my new book: Move Slow and Upgrade! Free tickets for the March 4th event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/funtime-bo...
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just arrived today. Can’t wait to read @evanselinger.bsky.social @foxcahn.bsky.social
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Move Slow And Upgrade is officially out in the world! If you want to learn how we can fight back against the broken “move fast and break things” mindset and actually fix big problems in tech, finance, and democracy, pick up your copy today! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I hope you’re as excited as I am for the launch of Move Slow and Upgrade on Thursday! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Find out more here: righttobe.org/upcoming-fre... @righttobe.bsky.social
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Next Thursday in Cambridge I'll be talking with @foxcahn.bsky.social about his new book on how we can build the technology that meets our actual needs. More below
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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Join us and @foxcahn.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of his book 'Move Slow and Upgrade', in conversation with @financialtimes.com journalist @alisonkilling.bsky.social. 📚 They will be diving into recent disastrous innovations and unsung upgraders pushing progress. 🙌🔗: bit.ly/4q2V10l
Promotional image for a book event featuring Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn discussing the book "Move Slow and Upgrade" at Cambridge University Press bookshop on February 5, 2026. The image includes a visual of the book cover alongside details of the event time and location.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I wonder if we will ever know how many people ICE killed when no one was filming…😢 If these are the horrors that happen when someone happens to be nearby filming, I can’t begin to imagine what the full scope will be.
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Ian | Founder & Firestarter @cubicgarden.com · 24/01/2026
The 2nd episode of Making the Familiar Strange podcast is now available with @foxcahn.bsky.social, myself and Dr Jessica. This is a frank conversation about the sorry state of #dating, #intimacy and #enshittification. redcircle.com/shows/95190f... Available everywhere you get podcasts...now!
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Making the familiar strange with Albert Fox Cahn
Listen to Making the familiar strange on RedCircle
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
So excited that the UK launch of my first book with the amazing Evan Selinger is just a few days away! If you’re in the UK, please join me and @alisonkilling.bsky.social for this great launch party! And please show publishers to invest in the anti-tech bro narrative by pre-ordering today!
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Book Launch: Move Slow and Upgrade
Join author Albert Fox Cahn to celebrate the launch of his book, Move Slow and Upgrade
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I’m so proud of everything we’ve built over the years at STOP, and as the organization enters this new phase with an amazing new leader, I’m so excited to see how this recognition helps it continue to flourish for the years to come. 🥹 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/n...
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A $100,000 Prize to a Group That Watches the Way We Are Watched
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
When you haven't finished the marathon, but are already planning the next one.and the one after that. 😂 If you didn't get in off the #SydneyMarathon lottery, join me in raising money for @stopspyingny.bsky.social down under next summer and this spring en Paris! www.stopspying.org/marathons
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Marathons — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
Sign up to run for Team S.T.O.P. for any of the listed half and full marathons!
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What the hell is this?
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
So proud of my colleagues at @stopspyingny.bsky.social, our partners at @ecbawm.com, and our amazing clients!!!! This sort of lawsuit is the reason I founded STOP, and the culmination of so many years of work. theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...
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An NYPD Camera Points Directly Into Their Bedroom. They’re Suing the City Over It.
The NYPD’s little-noted citywide surveillance system draws on a vast network of public and private cameras.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
British friends, excited that UK preorders for my 1st book are live! @evanselinger.bsky.social and I explain why the DOGE (move fast & break things) approach is broken and how we can fix huge problems by moving slow and upgrading. You can get 25% off until Friday! www.waterstones.com/book/move-sl...
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
My latest piece! I explore the crazy world of #running products and all of the unproven inventions that are inundating my digital life. www.businessinsider.com/rise-running...
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How the world's simplest sport became so tech-obsessed
I fell in love with running. Then the Instagram ads started flooding in.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Watching what’s happening to CBS News is really terrifying. If we keep losing the integrity / independence of institutions like major broadcasters, universities, and newspapers, eventually there won’t be much left that actually ensures the most bedrock elements of an open democratic society.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Why is it so much harder to find new music now than it was a decade ago? It feels like all of this streaming services. Just use their AI to recycle the same familiar artist and tracks over and over again. It should be the golden Age of music discovery, but it feels like the dark ages instead.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
#CharlieKirk says some awful things, but that doesn’t make his shooting any less awful. The more we normalize political violence, the more quickly we doom our democracy. A zealot with a gun can inflict grievous wounds, but they can’t delegitimize the ideology they fight. They only make it stronger.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"A lot of these predictive tools can create unintended errors where certain communities are underserved or misunderstood because of how the model missed or wrongly accounted for individuals’ risks in that community." @foxcahn.bsky.social #AI www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/a...
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From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life
Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man "Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
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S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It was such an honor to have @foxcahn.bsky.social from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project on my podcast to talk about all the horrible invasive ways big tech is using “child safety” to dismantle civil liberties online and off.
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Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What on earth?? abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Albert_...
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CahnCF.png Dr. Albert Cahn is a scientist who seems to have locked himself in a cell in Containment Block Baird. He offers to assist the player in escaping the facility if they free him by resetting t...
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
So excited to be able to partner with the amazing folks at @proton.me (especially Chris Cannucciari and Julia Jade Duffy) for this project on privacy and mass surveillance! youtu.be/QpFw7dk9l-0?...
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Privacy Advocate Exposes All The Ways You're Being Surveilled
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
After Tea’s recent breaches, with 70,000 user images allegedly leaked to, I decided to test out their facial verification for myself. Turned out I could break in in just a few minutes. 😬So why is creepy facial surveillance becoming such a big part of digital life? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Facial-Recognition Sham
Surveillance won’t make the internet safer.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
(1) As I see people denying the awful reality of Gaza, "fact checking" images of starving children for not being the perfect victims, it's hard to know what could possibly break through the wall of misinformation.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I’ve seen some lackluster political events, but the anti-#Mamdani protest at Union Square is channeling a new level of desperation. Basically just organizers and camera crews. Highlights include chants in support of DeSantis and moving to Florida that drew looks of revulsion from onlookers. 🙄🙄🙄
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“The NYPD keeps using these incredibly disturbing companies to spy on New Yorkers, while hiding that surveillance from the public & violating NYC law in the process,” said Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Tech.Oversight Project. “The FDNY is clearly being complicit in enabling these NYPD abuses.”
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So many who baselessly claimed Mamdani is an antisemite are shockingly silent when Trump justifies his estate tax roll back by saying “Shylock” bankers are coming for family farms. It’s beyond a double standard, it’s complicity in the politicization and horrifying normalization of antisemitism.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
So the headline is more incindiary than I would have liked, but so glad the Daily News let me speak to this moment and why Mamdani’s election is good for NYC Jews. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/01/m...
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We are witnessing the fracturing of the US Constitution in real time. This order brings us closer to a day where the bill of rights will once again be a dead letter in so many states. 😢
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Live Updates: Supreme Court Uses Birthright Citizenship Case to Limit Use of Nationwide Injunctions
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So happy, so relieved, so stunned.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I still think that any lead Cuomo has in 1st place votes will vanish as other candidates are knocked out and their votes are reassigned to Brad & Zohran. Been proud to work with both of them for years and I think either could be an exceptional mayor. And I know Cuomo would be a nightmare for NYC.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
There are lots of reasons to oppose the Iranian government, but none of them are a good reason for war. Bombing a country does NOT improve its human rights. Toppling a government does NOT build a stable region. How many times must we learn the lesson that we CAN’T fight our way to peace?
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Mourning dashed hopes for peace and the needless deaths on our screens. Once again, political opportunism and feigned necessity lead us to war, showing how little those in power today have learned from the follies of our past.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Interesting seeing increasingly desperate pro-Cuomo messaging, especially the move from asking people to vote for him/rank him first to just asking people to rank him at all.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's a beautiful day to NOT rank Andrew Cuomo
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
When even elected officials can be whisked away by masked agents, none of us can rest comfortably with the state of our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...
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Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I am terrified of where this leads us, horrified how many more will needlessly die. 😢 #iran www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Israel Launches Attack on Iran as Tehran Scrambles Jets
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
(1) I feel so deeply torn watching everything unfolding right now in opposition to Trump's threat to our republic. It is clear that inaction in a time of crisis like this is unconscionable, but it's also clear that the actions we're taking fundamentally are failing to win over much of the US.
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We asked 1,000 Americans about the L.A. protests. This is how they responded.
Americans are divided on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to L.A., Post-Schar School poll finds.
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
When you run an anti-surveillance organization and pass this on the way to dinner, you know the world is on fire…
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
An LAPD officer in a helicopter announced to a crowd of protestors “I have all of you on camera. I’m going to come to your house.” This is the very definition of using surveillance and the threat of reprisals to chill constitutionally-protected free speech.
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
In other off-topic distractions from dystopia and our constitutional crisis, I made my music video premiere 35 seconds into the new David Byrne music video. 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-B...
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David Byrne - "Everybody Laughs" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by David Byrne
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Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I've done some amazing stunts over the years, but this has to be my most ridiculous. Not only did I spend months forging an Ai WeiWei artwork because I thought the gallery selling it was being obnoxious, but i actually got to interview WeiWei about my stunt.🙃🤯
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I adored a piece of art that cost $280,000. So I decided to forge it.
Ai Weiwei made a piece of art out of plastic bricks that cost as much as a house. I replicated it for $250.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The federal government is so irretrievably fascist under this shitbird administration that the El Ay Fucking Pee Dee is comparatively reasonable and fair.
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