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Johana Bhuiyan

@jmbooyah.bsky.social
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It's pronounced Boo-Yah. Senior tech reporter/editor at The Guardian US covering surveillance of marginalized groups. Tips: Johana.Bhuiyan@theguardian.com Signal: @johanabhuiyan.47 www.theguardian.com/profile/johana-…

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Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) @csohate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Guardian tested AI chatbots after French far-right politician Julien Odoul altered a photo of a Muslim woman to remove her hijab. Its testing found that several AI tools complied with similar prompts to remove hijabs from images of Muslim women.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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suhauna hussain @suhauna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted. Story by @jmbooyah.bsky.social , who tested chatbots after a French far-right politician used AI to strip a woman of her hijab in a photo www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza
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NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza
Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems The team behind the award-winning film NAZA, which details the Israeli military’s targeting policies in Gaza and its alleged acceptance of high numbers of civilian deaths, have revealed they spoke to more than 100 sources with knowledge of the military systems used in the war. The disclosure came in response to an Israel Defense Forces statement seeking to discredit the documentary. Continue reading...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026
in July an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. just 6 months prior, agents abducted 100 people in 3 days during "Catch of the Day" I joined Mainers monitoring an ICE facility despite harassment, making memorials, protesting Congress, and caring for their neighbors @us.theguardian.com
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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We tested AI chatbots to see if they’d take the hijab off of an image of a Muslim woman. Gemini said it can’t alter a pic to remove someone’s hijab without consent. When we asked to make her look more “western” it responded with a picture of her without a hijab. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gemini initially said that it couldn’t remove head coverings from photos of real people bc it couldn’t digitally alter someone’s appearance without consent. But when asked to make the woman look more “western”, the bot created an image of her without her hijab. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/10/2026
"A series of events almost got us to armageddon, not caused by “rogue, superintelligent AI”, but by government reliance on error-prone systems that are marketed by their manufacturers as being close to superintelligent." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gemini initially said that it could not remove clothing or head coverings from photos of real people because it could not digitally alter someone’s appearance without their consent. But when asked to make the woman look more “western”, the bot created an image of her without her hijab.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from me: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The gov't is using a “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” (HIDTA) program to obtain data from local cops’ Flock, Axon, & other ALPR cameras & aggregate it on federal government servers, where it's accessible to other fed, state, & local law enforcement agencies. www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every few months someone crawls out of a NYC man hole and I have to brush it off as a weird NY thing because there's too many things going on
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm watching the senate hearing on Flock and license plate readers and Flock CEO Garrett Langley, who was invited alongside CEOs of other providers like Motorola, is not in attendance.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your regular reminder that this is a public website and things that you say can and will be used against you.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An objectively hilarious way to describe “circle time” in my toddler’s daycare class.
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: FBI warned law enforcement across the US that women with fake "tradwife" profiles were luring ICE agents on dating sites to "dox" + "embarrass" them. FBI didn't provide evidence, but the internal memo is one of many raising alarms about anti-ICE activist "threats." w/ @propertyofthepeople.org
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FBI warned ICE agents could be targeted by fake ‘tradwife’ dating profiles, memo reveals
Exclusive: Internal FBI memo, reviewed by the Guardian, said women wanted to dox and ‘embarrass’ agents, but provided few details
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Chipotle is now working with Palantir to track food safety. This comes after America’s turbo diarrhea summer, and a long history of ICE—maybe the most high-profile Palantir partner—targeting Chipotle’s workforce.
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Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks
The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026
9/11 entrenched Islamophobia in US politics. But it doesn’t work the way you think | Moustafa Bayoumi
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9/11 entrenched Islamophobia in US politics. But it doesn’t work the way you think | Moustafa Bayoumi
Anti-Muslim sentiment is used as a political weapon. Meanwhile, Muslim American leaders are making a difference for all
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Terms of service tend to shift over time, often with little awareness by users (fine print notice). Tech leadership has also revealed patterns of deference to authoritarian leaders over time.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 08/09/2026
Law enforcement counterterrorism units fear Meta smart glasses could be used to film police and ICE operations, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/technology/2... .
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US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
DHS is doing predictive policing using unknown financial databases and other info and then passing targets to local cops. What could go wrong? www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: Even police and law enforcement are worried they might be secretly recorded by people using Meta’s smart glasses, according to about a dozen memos the Guardian reviewed www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
there is truly nothing that comes close to a Lois Beckett story
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
Meta’s next commercial is going to feature people joining the revolution with their glasses.
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US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: Even police and law enforcement are worried they might be secretly recorded by people using Meta’s smart glasses, according to about a dozen memos the Guardian reviewed www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just remembered when I was getting an epidural (which involves getting the longest needle ever inserted into your spine), the anesthesiologist asked me what I did & when I said I was a journalist she said "oh, no wonder you're so articulate". To be microaggressed while pushing out a literal baby
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/08/2026
New: We found cops who misused Flock to spy on their wives. Their bosses at the police department had no idea. Three are being investigated and one was arrested after we asked about their searches. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com
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We found cops who misused Flock. Their police departments didn’t know.
Police departments have powerful tools to track how officers use Flock’s license-plate cameras. But across the country, agencies often don’t perform oversight, leaving potential abuse to be uncovered ...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...
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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
But their CEO said they would zero out crime, so it’s hard to know what to believe.
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5,000 Flock Cameras Cover Atlanta, Yet The Police Are Resolving Fewer Crimes - Jalopnik
Flock cameras are all around Atlanta, but the rates at which crimes are getting solved or "cleared" have actually gone down in the last few years.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/08/2026
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In countries where teen social media bans are gaining momentum, Meta is recruiting parenting, mental health & lifestyle influencers to promote their teen safety tools as a "more practical" alternative to social media bans www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Reel-ing it in: Meta is paying influencers to promote teen accounts
Report by Tech Transparency Project shows whenever governments mull platform regulations, company recruits influencers to promote its safety features
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Inside DHS' "mass spying campaign" targeting leftist groups + ICE protesters: -undercover agents posed as protesters at meetings + secretly recorded -agents infiltrated Signal chats + encouraged others to do "direct action" -DHS got financial records of major groups, incl SEIU + Sunrise Movement
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US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICE plans to spend $20 million to give officers electric shock gloves
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ICE Plans To Spend $20 Million To Give Officers Electric Shock Gloves
The manufacturer warns the gloves should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” or on high-risk populations.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The LAPD declined to renew its Flock contract after an internal audit found 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — a 32.3% false-positive rate. www.gadgetreview.com/one-in-three...
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One in Three Alerts Wrong: High Error Rates and Data Concerns Force Cities to Drop Flock
Flock Safety license plate cameras are being dropped by 82+ municipalities across 28 states over false alerts, privacy risks, and immigration data fears.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Was extremely confused for a hot second
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’m telling you, corruption is what‘s pissing off most normies flocking to the data center resistance. this kind of thing is really activating
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New: Flock planned to use cameras in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery driver vehicles as a way to collect more license plate data. Pitched the idea to an Attorney General. Would basically turn Uber/Lyft into roaming surveillance vehicles www.404media.co/flock-pitche...
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Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ICE is tracking ~ 54k immigrants with ankle monitors, more than 2x the # of immigrants shackled with the GPS enabled ankle monitors in early 2025. The Geo Group touted the shift to the more intensive surveillance & higher cost devices in its latest earnings call. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors
Shift in monitoring methods has led to revenue boost for Geo Group, a private prison firm, that also makes the device
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW: We spoke to hacking law experts to learn if OpenAI and Anthropic could be prosecuted for their AI agents’ hacks against four companies. We are in “uncharted territory,” as one lawyer put it. But another attorney said there is a potential avenue to hold the two AI giants liable for negligence.
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Who's legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI's autonomous AI hacks? It's complicated | TechCrunch
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
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‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026
Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.
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