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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This week, the govt moved to dismiss Briggs v. Mullin, a lawsuit brought by 4 Chicago-area protesters whose DNA was taken by DHS agents after their arrests. Our Justice Fellow Taman Mohamed spoke with @cbschicago.bsky.social about the it and what our research reveals. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Chicago DNA lawsuit used as case study in new "genetic surveillance" report, DHS motions to dismiss
Four Chicago-area protesters say their DNA was unlawfully taken by DHS agents outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center. The government has moved to dismiss their case, one that a new Georgetown Law ...
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Read their report, including a quote from Dir. of Advocacy @sglabe.bsky.social, here: hntrbrk.com/breaking-new...
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Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
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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
Check out the full program for the conference here. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Life After Data: Program
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Register for the conference here. 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Registration form
On October 6, 2026, The Privacy Center at Georgetown Law will host Life After Data: the Conference on De-datafication. The event will bring together researchers, activists, writers, artists, students,...
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Justin Hendrix’s (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) lightning talk “Why, How, and When to Abandon the Internet” at The Privacy Center’s Life After Data conference will turn that question over to Tech Policy Press’s global audience, inviting them to answer it in their own words.
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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
Today the organizers share learnings from the event, and ideas for future work, in a new report. Read it and join the conversation here: medium.com/center-on-pr...
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Report Out: Emerging Tech in Child Welfare Convening
By: Stevie Glaberson, Taman Mohamed, Kristen Weber, & Shereen A. White
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly 100 people with lived experience, advocates, attorneys, technologists, researchers, and child welfare professionals came together to examine how data, automation, predictive analytics, and generative AI are shaping child welfare.
Full room of attendees looks on as one attendee speaks into a microphone.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These and many more questions were the topic of an event The Privacy Center, @youthlaw.bsky.social, and @childrens-rights.bsky.social hosted earlier this summer.
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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
(@ruddock.bsky.social) Jenna Ruddock’s talk, “The People v. The Cloud,” at #LifeAfterData will look at how communities fighting data centers are also demanding a different future, one that pushes back on the wealth and power driving the boom. Hear her talk on October 6 at Georgetown Law.
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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
That work, Maréchal says, starts with imagining new relationships between people, data, institutions, and power. Hear her talk on October 6 at The Privacy Center’s #LifeAfterData conference at Georgetown Law.
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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 · 13/09/2026
All data are police data
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you’re a currently-enrolled Georgetown student passionate about privacy, surveillance, and civil rights, check out our Opportunities page and apply today! Priority deadline is Sept. 21: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Opportunities
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In sum: we could not do half the things we do without our amazing students. And guess what? We’re hiring more!
We're Hiring! 2026-27 Legal research Assistants and Research Assistants. Priority Deadline 9/21. Must be a currently enrolled Georgetown student to apply.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Even as we do all this, we’re also prepping for Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication. That work would not be possible w/o the help of RA Myla Taylor (who also btw designed (w/Tina’s art) the graphic we used to publicize the Whole Worker release!) www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yesterday we posted a blog written by RA Ifu, which jumps off from the Whole Worker Surveillance zine to reflect on Ifu’s own experiences both as a customer and a grocery worker, and the threat to beloved “third places” corporate surveillance tactics pose. medium.com/center-on-pr...
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Why the Amazonification of Whole Foods Threatens All Third Places
The grocery store used to be my “third place,” a reliable community center where I’d casually run into neighbors, chat with cashiers, and…
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tina’s art & our research will reach many more people thanks to the efforts of RA Christine Haley, who did heroic work helping us finalize & prepare the files for accessibility, & who is the talented engine behind the videos we’ve posted recently (many more coming soon!)
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We were only able to report out their words and our research in such a beautiful, visual, visceral way because of the talents of RA Tina Solki, who co-wrote and illustrated the zine.
Cover of Whole Worker Surveillance zine, showing worker illuminated by bright phone screen, surrounded by looming empty shelves, with shadows depicted as stylized barcodes
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On Tuesday, we published Whole Worker Surveillance, our new zine based on surveys and interviews of Whole Foods workers, telling the story of their experience of workplace surveillance tech in the wake of Amazon’s purchase of the grocery retailer. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Whole Worker Surveillance
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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
3/3 Based on surveys and interviews of Whole Foods workers living through the transition following Amazon buying the company for $ 13.7 billion in 2017, Whole Worker Surveillance highlights how this acquisition didn’t just change the products on the shelves; it fundamentally changed the workplace.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
2/3 Read Ifu’s piece as a companion to the Privacy Center’s new zine, 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 · 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
He argues that the currently dominant mode of understanding of human possibility in terms of probability renders genuine emancipation unthinkable. The conference is free, and space is filling up fast! See the website for more details and link to register. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
David's talk reads the most famous image in the history of European philosophy, the "Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's Republic, as offering a pre-modern image of a completely datafied political "reality."
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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
Hear workers talk about the impact of Amazonification on their lives, surveillance tech on their workplace, & all of it on their ability to build the foundations of human connection that are a prerequisite to any kind of organizing for a collective future. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Whole Worker Surveillance
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Based on interviews with Whole Foods Workers nationwide brought to life by incredible illustrations done by Georgetown undergraduate student Tina Solki, this piece documents the experience of Whole Foods workers in the wake of Amazon’s acquisition of the company.
Cover of Whole Worker Surveillance zine featuring worker surrounded by empty shelves, looking at phone screen, which is shining bright white as the camera records the worker. The worker’s shadow, and the shadow of the looming shelves, appears as a stylized barcode.
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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
Drawing from her own experience researching in libraries in Ireland and Scotland, Dusseau’s lightning talk will argue that travel and hands-on research help young writers grow as storytellers in this era of automation. Hear her talk at #LifeAfterData.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dusseau, who’s a poet, professor, and novelist, will present her lightning talk “Pencils Out: Study Abroad, Archival Research, and Creative Writing Pedagogy” at The Privacy Center’s Life After Data conference on October 6.
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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
Join us at the Center on Privacy & Technology’s "Life After Data: The Conference on De-Datafication" for a day-long event Oct 6 to help answer that. Details and registration: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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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
6/(fin) Lea nuestros informes en raidingthegenome.org para descubrir qué hemos averiguado y qué es lo que aún no sabemos.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
5/ A pesar de haber recibido exactamente las mismas solicitudes, el ICE aún no nos ha proporcionado esos mismos datos. Como resultado, hay mucho que todavía no sabemos sobre cómo utiliza el ICE su autoridad para recopilar muestras de ADN.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4/ El año pasado, la CBP respondió a nuestras solicitudes proporcionándonos hojas de cálculo registrando las personas a las que la agencia había tomado muestras de ADN. Este año, la CBP facilitó una actualización en respuesta a otra solicitud.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
3/ Ambas agencias han comenzado finalmente a entregar registros, pero el ICE ha seguido ocultando datos fundamentales.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
2/ Tras la falta de respuesta del ICE y la CBP—ambas dependientes del DHS—a nuestras solicitudes de acceso a registros públicos, nos unimos al Amica Center y a @aijustice.bsky.social para presentar una demanda bajo la ley FOIA.
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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
Lea la actualización nueva en español, y los otros informes y actualizaciones, en raidingthegenome.org
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
En los dos años transcurridos desde entonces, el DHS ha más que duplicado esa cifra, creando una enorme base de datos de ADN con el fin de ejercer control policial sobre la población.
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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cuando publicamos por primera vez *Raiding the Genome* en 2024, nos pareció asombroso que el DHS hubiera pasado de no recopilar prácticamente ADN de nadie en 2019 a obtener el ADN de más de 1,5 millones de personas en apenas cuatro años.
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