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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Without appropriate public access to videos, the technology can be worse than useless www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras But the Fix is In | ACLU
The technology appears unlikely to constrain the immigration agencies; much more sweeping reforms are needed
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Horrific
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The FBI has been using, and companies selling, technology that allows agents to hack into and take over drones. But if the government can do that... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Government Playing a Dangerous Game With Drone Cybersecurity | ACLU
Return of the zombie idea that software vulnerabilities can be reserved for good actors
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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Shepard Safety" Amazing satirical public comment at the Casa Grande, AZ Council Meeting on July 20! "Our AI will monitor where government officials go, where they stop, who they meet with, and when they return home." #deflock #surveillance #alpr
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Many states have some strong privacy laws on the books that are not being enforced, Utah's top privacy official says. And state privacy officers shouldn't report to state CIOs. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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State Chief Privacy Officers Can Have Real Power | ACLU
Utah has given its CPO a meaningful role — and he has thoughts on how other states should follow
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's useful to see things that law enforcement didn't intend for us to see. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Leaked Police Drone Videos Highlight Need For Independent Review of the Technology’s Usefulness | ACLU
And other takeaways from watching three hours of aerial police videos
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sometimes the good guys win. And when this happens, we take the time to enjoy our victory because that is the only way to fight a long fight without burning out. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices
Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunsho...
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The FBI and DHS have seized hundreds of drones during the World Cup under corrupt civil asset forfeiture laws that let law enforcement agencies pad their budgets by taking property without due process. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Government Security Agencies Want to Steal Your Drone | ACLU
And are putting in place rules that allow them to do so
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
For-profit Silicon Valley-backed tech companies are positioning themselves to sit at the very heart of American police departments. What could go wrong? Well, we answer that question in a new white paper published today: lnkd.in/edu8vEza
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A simple point, but one that surveillance boosters usually seem completely oblivious of www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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The Downsides of "Deterrence" | ACLU
Surveillance Boosters Tout the Benefits of Deterrence, But There’s a Big Problem With That
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If you liked what you saw with the invasion of Minneapolis and what's going on now in Memphis, you'll love this program www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Trump Administration Hijacks Police Grants to Leverage Local Police For Its Authoritarian Ends | ACLU
We’ve already seen what that looks like in places like Memphis; New “Model Cities Initiative” would spread it to other cities
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This case could deter journalism and research in the public interest and threaten criminal and civil liability for the use of common browser extensions. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Sigificant Internet Freedom Issues at Stake in Legal Battle Between Amazon and Perplexity | ACLU
Outcome of case could severely limit user control and the rights of researchers and journalists on the Web
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We can debate the civil liberties problems with a new technology all day long, but if the tech doesn’t work, why bother? www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Studies Question Value of AI-Assisted Police Reports | ACLU
Researchers asked experienced police supervisors to rate police reports, some of which were written by humans and some by AI
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Public records obtained by a privacy activist/researcher suggest troubling face recognition program is being used in more problematic ways than first reported. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law | ACLU
City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
More reasons cities & towns should be waring of embracing driver mass-surveillance technology... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Municipalities: Beware of Changes in Flock’s Legal Terms if You’re Using or Considering License Plate Readers | ACLU
A flurry of Flock contract changes disempower customers
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Other states need to give this issue the thought and care it deserves before creating digital ID systems that will be used by big tech and other companies to track and control individuals www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Utah Passes Nation’s Strongest Digital Identity Bill | ACLU
Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ultimate responsibility for the Trump Administration’s immigrant kidnapping campaign lies with the Trump Administration itself. But just how involved is Palantir, and how should we judge its culpability? www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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All the Ways Palantir is Assisting Trump’s Abusive Removal Campaign | ACLU
How culpable is the company for the constitutional and human rights violations of the deportation drive?
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We're hearing more examples of the use of drones for intimidation. That's exacerbated by an ongoing lack of transparency about drone flights. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Drones for Intimidation | ACLU
Despite talk of "drones for good" from boosters, we're seeing a new, darker law enforcement “use case” for the technology
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Ring is just one piece of a larger picture: data collection devices owned by both government and private entities, centralized by private companies through cloud services, and subject to AI analysis that makes them far more powerful than they would have been even in the recent past.
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Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out | ACLU
Think twice about sending video from your home to companies, and possibly police and hackers
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We’ve seen plenty of “show me the man, I’ll find you the crime” kind of abuse at the hands of the Trump Administration. But here's a reminder that such abuse can rear its head anywhere — and when it does, license plate reading programs are a natural tool for that... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Airspace over Homeland Security Dept. vehicles is to be designated “national defense airspace.” How drone operators are supposed to comply with the changes @jaystanley.bsky.social reports is one question. But another…. “national defense airspace”? Over DHS vehicles? Via @faineg.bsky.social
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Under this ridiculous order, if ICE decides to drive underneath/near your drone with no notice, you could be liable for criminal charges and/or a $10,000 fine. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Trump Administration Claims Sweeping New Power to Take Down Any Drone it Doesn’t Like | ACLU
Baffling order is likely a move to block drone photography of DHS operations in violation of First Amendment
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Retailers using face recognition against their customers are taking government suggestions on who to alert against. This raises 2 questions: A) Is this leading to construction of a nationwide look-out infrastructure? B) Are these companies helping Trump's brutal and lawless immigration campaign?
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Retailers Secretively Using Face Recognition to Spot “Persons of Interest” — Including For the Government | ACLU
Are Wegmans and other retailers participating in the Trump war on immigrants?
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Flock charges its critics with wanting to "see murderers go free" and "normalize lawlessness." But at this moment in history, it's not privacy advocates who are wanting those things... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Flock CEO Goes Ballistic on Critics as More Americans Question Mass Driver Surveillance | ACLU
CEO attacks motives of people who care about privacy, says they are trying to “normalize lawlessness” and “let murderers go free”
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The big push for state digital driver's licenses is effectively a movement to increase the power of big companies and government to control individuals.
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How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps | ACLU
States That Adopt Digital Driver’s Licenses Need to Rethink How IDs are Revoked
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Using an LLM with your secure messaging service, as Meta proposes, brings new risks to the architecture that protects privacy and security. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Secure Messaging and AI Don’t Mix | ACLU
A Privacy Failure Waiting to Happen
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We can debate the moral complexities of individual responsibility for the misuse of LLMs, but policymakers need to be realistic that lapses are inevitable and take steps to limit certain uses of AI. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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The AI Trapdoor Lying in Wait for Workers | ACLU
“The pilots were well aware of which lever to pull. It was ‘human error’ that caused the mistake. But laying the blame on the pilots wasn’t ever going to solve the problem.”
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"Basically, he said that it’s a tool that isn’t going to be used — and if it is used, then 'you’re failing in the training department, big time.'" www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Another Police Use of AI | ACLU
Axon’s “Policy Chat” product seeks to give officers guidance on department policies and procedures
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@ACLU demanding more information on violations of photographer's rights, including DHS policy directives, training materials, legal analyses, and communications www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...
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Immigration Agents are Retaliating Against People Who Record Them | ACLU
We’re filing a FOIA to find out how deep the problem goes
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Perspective on AP report revealing how DHS uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency | ACLU
AP report reveals how the agency uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? How we have gotten dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control
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Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A breakdown of the new “Mobile Fortify” face recognition program, including lists of a) The reasons it’s problematic, b) The vast array of data that the agencies can connect to c) Some of the unanswered questions that remain about the program.
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Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell | ACLU
ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Utah is the only state where political leaders are thinking through the potentially disastrous effects of the current effort to create a national digital ID through the driver's license system.
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There’s Only One State That is Asking the Right Questions About Digital Identity | ACLU
A digital ID system involves value-laden choices that should be made through explicit political discussion and debate
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Exciting news: you can now subscribe to an ACLU newsletter to keep up with with ACLU technology policy blog posts and other news! Subscribe here: action.aclu.org/signup/free-...
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A bureaucratic wall is being built between Americans and the information they have a right to access www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Digital Driver’s Licenses Threaten to Create a “Great Internet Lockdown” | ACLU
Two trends threaten the creation of an online identity infrastructure that would transform the internet
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We shouldn't get rid of police audit logs but we also shouldn't think they're worth more than they are
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Surveillance Supporters Tout Police Audit Logs But They’re Not an Effective Check and Balance | ACLU
If an officer had just left the word "abortion" out of an audit log, a vital national story would never have come to light
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Some US prisons and jails have started using non-consensual, non-removable biometric wrist straps on prisoners to monitor their pulse, blood oxygenation level, skin temperature, activity level, and location. What does the ACLU think of this? I look at the issue in a post on our Free Future blog
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Biometric bracelets for prisoners | ACLU
Invading privacy as well as "barking up the wrong tree"
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Appalling... apparently "military grade" AI has fallen short...
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Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun | ACLU
Deploying AI in Inappropriate Ways Can and Does Get People Hurt
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
News about the driver-surveillance company Flock just keeps coming in: findings from Massachusetts and Virginia, new deals with big companies, and more:
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Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments | ACLU
The company’s default agreement with police departments grants the company license to share people’s license plate data
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Digital driver’s licenses — now being built in many states — have a big problem that almost nobody is addressing: the threat of an explosion of ID demands from all quarters. There is a body of existing state laws that points toward a solution.
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State Barcode Laws | ACLU
State regulation of who may scan barcodes from driver’s licenses and what scanners can do with the data point the way toward vital protections against abuses of digital IDs
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Generally people should have privacy from government, and the government should be an open book to the people — not the other way around.
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Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage | ACLU
We can’t let government block drone photography of newsworthy events simply by claiming a need to fly their own aircraft in an area or claiming the existence of vague “security threats”
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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Surveillance, AI, and airline ticket prices: hasbrouck.org/blog/archive... @jaystanley.bsky.social
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The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog
The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
There are a growing number of companies that are engaging in mass surveillance that could prove useful to the Trump Administration’s efforts to target immigrants. They have human rights responsibilities.
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Surveillance Businesses Have Human Rights Responsibilities | ACLU
The Trump Administration's immigration abuses are human rights violations
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The coming battles over being identified versus not being identified
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Digital Driver’s Licenses Could Make “Surveillance Pricing” Much Easier for Companies | ACLU
The coming battles over being identified versus not being identified
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We are certainly not the ones whose power increases when companies crunch data with AI to individually set the prices they charge us.
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“Surveillance Pricing” Hurts Consumers, Incentivizes More Corporate Spying on Them | ACLU
Those hurt the most are those who can least afford it
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A look at the prospects for, and reasons to support, open source LLM models and research www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Open vs. Closed: The Battle for the Future of Language Models | ACLU
Will Language Models Foster Freedom or Authoritarianism? (part 4 in a series)
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It's not hard to imagine police departments deploying fleets of self-docking, self-navigating patrol drones over communities. We're starting to see that in the commercial space now.
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Autonomous Drone Patrols Start to Become a Thing | ACLU
Edging toward police drone dystopias
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A look at the possible future of local AI models, and what that might mean for the question of how much of a centralizing force the technology will be. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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What's the Future of AI Language Models as a Decentralized Technology? | ACLU
Many assume that LLMs will always be provided by big tech companies through the cloud, but is that true? (LLMs and power series part 3)
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Policymakers are beginning to recognize that you can't count on surveilling your local residents while keeping that data out of the hands of ICE and the Trump Administration www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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I’m Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled by Concern Over Anti-Immigrant Uses | ACLU
Policymakers are beginning to recognize that the boundaries between local surveillance and the Trump Administration are hard to maintain
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