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Matt Cagle

@mattcagle.bsky.social
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AI policy & civil liberties. Policy Counsel, Anthropic. ACLU NorCal alum. Opinions are my own.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/02/2026
Part of the myth of Ring is that this is MY camera on MY door--but when you see a map and realize that there are a hundred in your neighborhood and they're all connected by a corporation that serves the police, the illusion dissolves.
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Ring’s Founder Knows You Hated That Super Bowl Ad
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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In case it wasn't clear, we are the dogs. And we're not lost. www.404media.co/leaked-email...
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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This is a common refrain in tech policy spaces and specifically with stories about surveillance. But it just conveys cynicism at the expense of putting forward a productive vision of how to make people’s lives better. We can do much better.
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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
surprising amount of chilling of dissent in this new era of tech companies and the government collaborating to stand up for free speech etc
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The social media companies must do more to stand up to these demands, many of which are illegal. This week @eff.org and @aclu-norcal.bsky.social sent the companies a letter explaining what they should do to protect people’s privacy and free speech. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The federal government is abusing its power by targeting people who speak out against Trump administration policies online. Alongside @eff.org we're calling on tech companies to resist DHS's lawless demands to turn over user data without a court order.
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Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Proud to be part of the ACLU team opposing DHS attempts to harass and intimidate people exercising their First Amendment rights.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/02/2026
The Department of Homeland Security is issuing lawless subpoenas for online user data. Tech companies need to do more to fight back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
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Mario Trujillo @mariotrujillo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Google promises to give users notice before turning their data over to law enforcement. This gives users an opportunity to challenge unlawful requests. Sometimes, it breaks that promise to avoid delays.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/02/2026
California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of @governor.ca.gov and the CA Dept of Transportation.
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Coalition Urges California to Revoke Permits for Federal License Plate Reader Surveillance
SAN FRANCISCO – California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to put automated license plate readers al...
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Once again, DHS withdraws an illegal and unconstitutional subpoena after the ACLU challenges it in court. This is the third time in about as many months.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/02/2026
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny is the best and we are going to win
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
DHS is waging a bi-coastal assault on the free speech rights of people speaking truth about power. Last fall, in a separate case, the agency unsuccessfully sought the identity of our client who discusses ICE activity on Instagram. www.aclunorcal.org/press-releas...
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DHS Withdraws Subpoena Seeking to Unmask Instagram Users Who Posted About ICE Raids - ACLU of Norcal
A Victory for the Public's Right to Document Government Actions Without Retaliation
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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Homeland Security is targeting Americans who criticize it with unfounded investigations fueled by judicially-unsupervised administrative subpoenas. This article tells the story of our client who was so targeted. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/02/2026
A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
“Unconscionable,” Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor.

“Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” he wrote. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.”

That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference.

Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone.

“Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026
We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 31/01/2026
This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.
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If you want to combat fraud, crime and illegal immigration, reach out. Patriots needed.
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If you are a lawyer, are interested in being an AUSA, and support President Trump and anti-crime agenda, DM me.
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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
There's absolutely no reason for the average person to believe these are agents of the state and not just three dudes with an Amazon account.
An image taken from a car's dash camera: three men wearing mismatched military-style clothes point handguns at the driver. All three men have their faces covered. One is holding his weapon one-handed and sideways. They appear to have exited a red SUV with no government markings.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 29/01/2026
The tools Americans pay for so ICE can spy on them www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters
Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
wake up babe new perverse incentive just dropped
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is the restoration of free expression that Zuckerberg promised when Trump retook office last year.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If you're wondering what Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, has said publicly in response to the FBI's raid of a Washington Post reporter's home last week, the answer is nothing.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots.
PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.
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Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety....
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
JUST IN: New ACLU class action lawsuit in Minnesota seeks to bar ICE from stopping Latino and Somali residents without probable cause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"The capability is powered by both Motorola Solutions and Thomson Reuters"
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Consensus reality has been under assault by Trumpism and by tech for years now. But it's important to underline that people are still putting their lives on the line because they believe it matters. www.theverge.com/policy/85905...
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People are fighting for the truth in Minneapolis
Ordinary civilians aren’t playing along with Trump
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This irrefutable evidence didn't come from professional journalists, but from citizens who showed up & recorded what our government would prefer remain unseen. From Gaza to Minneapolis, this is why video documentation is treated as a threat: it makes their lies and cover-ups far harder to sustain.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/01/2026
ICE doesn't keep our communities safe.
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404 Media @404media.co · 07/01/2026
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Brown has over 1,200 cameras and it wasn’t enough because cameras are a security blanket we’ve all been sold. They don’t prevent crimes and they barely solve crimes but in the meantime surveillance companies got rich and no one had to address the societal root causes of crime and violence.
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Brown University has over 1,200 surveillance cameras. Why that wasn’t enough to capture video of the shooting suspect | CNN
CNN spoke to several security experts to better understand the growth of Brown’s surveillance system, why its cameras failed to capture the attack or suspect, and the concerns about privacy and academ...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Today @eff.org & our @aclu-norcal.bsky.social team sued San Jose alleging its warrantless searches for driver locations are unconstitutional. This program is fed by a vast network of license plate readers and amasses people's private habits, associations, and movements www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit...
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Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance | ACLU of Northern CA
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Nick Hidalgo @nickhidalgo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The San Jose PD regularly conducts warrantless searches through its massive license plate reader database, allowing it to reconstruct detailed maps of a person’s movements through the City going back as far as a year. This poses a serious threat to communities’ privacy and freedom of movement.
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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Today @eff.org & our @aclu-norcal.bsky.social team sued San Jose alleging its warrantless searches for driver locations are unconstitutional. This program is fed by a vast network of license plate readers and amasses people's private habits, associations, and movements www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit...
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Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance | ACLU of Northern CA
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The second Trump administration is building a mass surveillance state to persecute immigrants and police online speech. We’ve already reached the point where if you step out of line or post disfavored opinions on the Internet, you could lose your job, your family, and even your freedom.
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Mass Surveillance in the Trump Era | ACLU of Northern CA
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/11/2025
Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
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