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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@truth.bsky.social today reports that Meta’s Muse, billed by the company as a “personal agent,” “can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups.” (📷: Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / betterimagesofai.org)
Words appear above and on top of a historical-style painting of a young woman stands before the Colossus computer. She is attached to the computer through a network of connecting wires, symbolizing the flow and processing of information. The words read: “It’s very terrifying … You don't need any special training to weaponize information in this way … It puts vulnerable people and people who belong in these categories in extreme danger.”- Stevie Glaberson, speaking to Hunterbrook Media on Meta’s new Muse and its doxxing capabilities; Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta’s New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups on Request
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What would it take to build a movement to abandon the current internet entirely and start over?
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧵How are data and automation shaping child welfare practice today? How can children and families be at the center of these conversations and decisions? What harms must we guard against? What might be coming down the pike?
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Industry proposals for data centers get plenty of attention and the benefit of the doubt from the press and lawmakers. The futures communities imagine for themselves rarely get the same treatment.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What would it take to reconstruct American democracy after authoritarian rule? (@nathaliemarechal.net) Nathalie Maréchal’s talk at The Privacy Center’s conference, Life After Data, will argue that reconstructing our democracies means dismantling surveillance capitalism through de-datafication.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧵At The Privacy Center, our greatest asset is the students who choose to work with us as research assistants. This week serves as a case in point.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🧵 Grocery stores could be community hubs. But corporate interests are turning them into sites of surveillance and extraction. In a new blog, RA Ifu reflects on her days working the registers and explores what the rise of retail surveillance means for beloved third places. medium.com/center-on-pr...
New Blog: Why the Amazonification of Whole Foods Threatens All Third Places by Ifu Ojukwu
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Another teaser for our "Life After Data" conference, coming up on October 6! The philosopher David McNeill will deliver a talk entitled "The Shadows of Artificial Things."
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This week, as we celebrate the contributions of workers, The Privacy Center is publishing our first zine centering the experience of workers: Whole Worker Surveillance www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Whole Worker Surveillance
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Enjoy your Labor Day weekend! Meet us back here afterwards for an exciting new publication from The Privacy Center!
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Plot generators and Large Language Models are becoming increasingly common in creative writing spaces–but Melanie Dusseau (@melaniedusseau.bsky.social) argues, "[t]he creative process doesn't need a glowing screen to thrive."
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We’re pleased to announce The Privacy Center is now…The Privacy Center! If you are thinking “Wait, isn’t that what you have always been called?” Well, yes, exactly! Read about our decision to let go of our longer, official name: medium.com/@georgetownp...
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The Privacy Center is now The Privacy Center
Almost since the founding of our center, we have been talking about renaming it. “The Center on Privacy & Technology” has always felt like…
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re told the datafied world is inevitable, that we’re already in some sense, merely data. But history says otherwise, and the question isn’t whether the digital era ends—it’s how.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🎧 Listen in: Dir. of Research & Advocacy @sglabe.bsky.social spoke to @marketplace.org about DHS DNA collection: www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
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ICE is collecting DNA from detainees for future policing
Stevie Glaberson at Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology found that DHS has been collecting DNA samples from detainees — and then sending that genetic information to an FBI database.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
El ICE es la agencia que más está contribuyendo a la base de datos de vigilancia genética del gobierno, pero es la que menos nos facilita información. (hilo)
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A continuación, presentamos las cifras derivadas de nuestra actualización de este año del informe *Raiding the Genome* (ahora disponible en español): el DHS ha recopilado el ADN de más de 3,3 millones de personas, siendo el ICE el principal impulsor de este aumento.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
More learnings from our June event on data and automation in the family policing system are now live. Read one attendee's perspective, for the ABA, here: www.americanbar.org/groups/litig...
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Emerging Technology in Child Welfare: Challenges and Opportunities
The author spent the day at the seminar “Emerging Technology in Child Welfare: Where We’ve Been, What’s Next and Where We Go from Here.”
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hoy publicamos en espanol una actualización de nuestro informe *Raiding the Genome*, que confirma lo que temíamos: el programa de vigilancia genética federal, impulsado por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS), es más grande, más rápido, y más claramente inconstitucional que nunca.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Legal challenges to DHS’s DNA collection program have begun. U.S. citizens whose DNA DHS collected when it detained them while they were protesting immigration operations in Chicago filed the first major constitutional challenge in May 2026.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A consistent theme in our research on DHS DNA collection is that there is no oversight. No one is checking the work of DHS agents in the streets, who are the ones wielding this awesome authority.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Next up from our findings from this year’s RaidingTheGenome.org update: the numbers. DHS has now captured the DNA of more than 3.3 million people, with ICE driving the majority of that growth.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This year’s update to Raiding the Genome gives us the most striking evidence yet that DHS’s DNA collection program is not about immigration enforcement at all, but about building a national criminal database. Read the report at raidingthegenome.org
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Today, we’re releasing an update to our 2024 report, Raiding the Genome, and it confirms what we feared: the federal gov’t’s DHS-driven genetic surveillance program is bigger, faster, and more clearly unconstitutional than ever.
Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government is Abusing its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing; *NEW* 2026 Update; New numbers, and new evidence corroborating our analysis that the true purpose of the federal DNA collection program is to build a massive genetic database for policing the general population. (with image of family standing near border wall, facing away)
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
On June 4, we welcomed nearly 100 researchers, advocates, technologists, practitioners, individuals with lived expertise, agency leaders, and policymakers to the Georgetown Law campus for a conversation about the growing role of technology in child welfare (or family policing) practice.
Image of room at Georgetown Law filled with attendees listening to speaker at podium. Text reads "New Blog: Data and automation in the family policing system: a primer," by Stevie Glaberson
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
CA legislators started trying to regulate high-risk gov’t uses of algorithmic technology through a bill aimed at transparency. They failed. Dir. of Research & Advocacy @sglabe.bsky.social & Center on Resilience and Digital Justice Research Fellow @vashetc.blacksky.app explain why in CalMatters:
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just about a week left to send in your proposals for the Life After Data conference!
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Fun to see the Library of Babel Group zine featured on @dairinstitute.bsky.social’s guest zone page. zines.dair-institute.org/guest-zines
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The DAIR Zine Library
A collection of zines from the DAIR Institute
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/09/2024
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Publishers Marketplace deal report 
Category non-fiction science/technology September 26, 2024 

Luxury Surveillance by Chris Gilliard 
Imprint: MIT Press

The Atlantic and Wired contributor Chris Gilliard’s LUXURY SURVEILLANCE: HOW BIG TECH SELLS US THE PLEASURE OF BEING WATCHED, a first-person investigation into the proliferation of consumer surveillance technology and its implications for individuals and communities, to Gita Devi Manaktala at MIT Press, by Michael Signorelli at Aevitas Creative Management (NA).
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We’re excited to have a new incredible Distinguished Fellow join our team! Please join us in welcoming @hypervisible.blacksky.app! Read more about his work here: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Headshot plus text announcement.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please join us in welcoming our new Distinguished Fellow, Sushma Raman! She's an experienced social change innovator, leader, and strategic advisor. We're excited for her to join us. Read more about her on our website: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...:
Headshot of Sushma with designed background.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Last week, SoCal’s Monterey Park passed the nation’s first voter-approved permanent citywide data center ban. Communities rejecting data centers, “also targets of ICE raids, are drawing connections between the two,” writes @ehtse.bsky.social in a new op-ed for @coloradoboulevard.bsky.social
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Data Centers Are Powering ICE: Communities Are Pushing Back
GUEST OPINION From Monterey Park to City of Industry, Montebello, El Monte, Covina, and more, data center protests have spread across the SGV. These communities, also targets of I
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Don’t forget to submit your abstract for our Life After Data conference, happening at Georgetown Law in October. Deadline is about a month away! www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...
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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our ED Emily Tucker recently wrote a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Governance and the Law. She argues that algorithmic tech necessarily makes systems of policing & punishment less just, even if the tech is good & even if the society using it is too. Read her whole chapter here:
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The Algorithm Can’t Solve for Justice:: Why Banning Algorithmic Tech in Systems of Policing and Punishment Is a Moderate Reform
Abstract. Most legal and policy conversations that challenge the use of algorithmic technologies in criminal legal systems focus on the ways that such tech
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Our Associate Marianna Poyares recently spoke with @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social about the multiple technologies deployed around the US-Mexico border. Read all about the current state of border tech here: thewarhorse.org/southern-bor...
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Our ED Emily Tucker spoke with Natalie Alexander of the AIxMultilateralism podcast about why “AI governance” is a fool’s game without radical limitations on corporate data practices. Listen to the whole episode here:
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AIxMultilateralism: Why We Need Redlines for Data, with Emily Tucker | The Next Page
This is AI x Multilateralism, a playlist of conversations at the UN Library & Archives Geneva where we’re joined by experts who help us unpack the many ideas and issues at the nexus of AI and inte...
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In response to Georgetown University’s recent decision to give students, faculty, and staff licenses for the Google chatbot, our Executive Director Emily Tucker wrote an open letter urging students to resist the co-optation of their education by the tech industry.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Georgetown’s English Dept’s annual Lacay Lecture is on “AI Resistance and Refusal in Higher Education” on April 13th at 5 pm.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Intercept published an article about immigration authorities in Minnesota intimidating peaceful, legal observers at their own homes. The article mentioned our American Dragnet report, referencing how ICE can use driver’s license data to surveil U.S. adults. Read the article here:
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Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: “They Know Where You Live”
Immigration authorities in Minnesota have identified legal observers by name and address, and in some cases showed up at their homes.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We’ve seen the 📷s: ICE agents (paid) looming over (unpaid) TSA agents as lines snake into airport parking lots. What you probably haven’t realized is while ICE wastes taxpayer $$ snacking in airport food courts, staff responsible for letting the public know what the agency is up to are MIA.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📢 📢 📢 TODAY: Join us for a screening of “Digital Detention” followed by a Q&A with director Carolina Sanchez Boe and Professor Denise Gilman. Register here: tinyurl.com/digitaldeten...
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Tech & Society "Digital Detention" Movie Screening
Join us for a screening of Digital Detention and Q&A with Carolina Sanchez-Boe (director and producer) and Denise Gilman (Georgetown Law/UT Texas) on Thursday, March 26th at 3:00 p.m! Digital Detentio...
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our Faculty Advisor Laura Moy recently spoke as a guest on the Science Friday podcast to explain how ICE uses technology to track individuals via their phones. Georgetown Law Professor Moy provides key insights to how personal data can be made vulnerable to data brokers. Listen here:
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Why Worry About My Data If I Have Nothing To Hide? | Science Friday | WNYC Studios
As ICE cracks down in Minneapolis and across the country, reporters and privacy advocates have drawn attention to how the agency is using technology: scanning people’s faces without c...
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢📢📢 Reminder! Next Thursday, March 26, at 3 PM we will be hosting a screening of “Digital Detention” followed by a Q&A with the director Carolina Sanchez Boe and Professor Denise Gilman, moderated by Marianna Poyares.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Our ED Emily Tucker, was quoted in the Guardian regarding the potential capacity for DHS body camera footage to be weaponized against immigrants and their communities. To learn more about the role of Axon in supplying surveillance technologies to governments agencies like ICE, read the article here:
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Top US body-camera maker reports record revenue amid Trump immigration crackdown
Axon sees ‘major opportunities’ as Congress proposes $20m for ICE body cameras but data privacy experts warn of risks
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
One of our Distinguished Fellows, Anil Kalhan reviewed David M. Rabban’s book, “Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right” in an article for Academe Magazine. Read the article here:
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Academic Freedom's Uneven First Amendment Path
Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right by David M. Rabban. Harvard University Press, 2024.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Privacy Center will be hosting a screening of "Digital Detention" and subsequent Q&A with director and producer Caroliana Sanchez-Boe and Denise Gilman (Georgetown Law/UT Texas).
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 11/03/2026
On March 6, Lawfare, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, and @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social marked the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act with a live event. You can now watch a recording of this event–and read the papers prepared for the event–here:
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Installing Updates to ECPA
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In the Georgetown Law Technology Review, our advisory board member Ignacio Cofone published an article detailing how the privacy paradox—that people say they’re concerned for their safety but then disclose information—is actually not what it seems.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Join us for a joint event with @lawfaremedia.org and @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social, “Installing Updates to ECPA.” The event marks the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and features keynote remarks and panels from leading experts on the future of surveillance law.
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