Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So if you are wondering about AI license plate cameras and real-time crime centers and your car snitching on you, it’s time to read “Your Data Will Be Used Against You.” Perfect for book clubs to debate why it was necessary to buy a smart toothbrush. 0246
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Your Data Will Be Used Against You” was featured at the 10th Privacy Symposium at the IMF. 0175
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If only we could get folks to see how “your data will be used against you” is not a vendor problem but a surveillance problem. 092
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Right, the world of self-surveillance all available to police is much bigger than flock. 000
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Flock is the tip of the AI police surveillance iceberg. Time to educate yourself, debate, and demand solutions. The problems are all here (with endnotes). nyupress.org/978147983829... 0107
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I am not saying it was because “Your Data Will Be Used Against You” was published this year but… Anti-Flock ALPR movement Ring doorbells TAKE encryption Chatrie and a privacy protective 4th Amend. John Oliver! The tide is turning against mass surveillance. Now, if only people read the book. 1258
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Now, if only these good folks could expand their horizons beyond one company and one technology to see all the other ways your data will be used against you. Really seems to be a moment for this … 021
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026If you are focused on Flock in your communities, can I interest you in real-time crime centers, video analytics, drones, sensors, or other pattern-matching and tracking technologies. A narrow focus on ALPRs obscures the other equally pervasive and panoptic policing technologies in use. 214669
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Always warned that the pro surveillance/law—and-order crowd would finally see the harms when the surveillance targeted gun ranges. Want to know who has a gun? Put an ALPR at a gun range. 2198
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ok book lovers and friends. If I haven’t convinced you yet to buy “Your Data Will Be Used Against You” can the combination of John Oliver and BookTV be enough. Banner day for the book. (Also the issues are super important to our future). 0131
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026John Oliver covers police surveillance in his amazing, cutting way and gives a shout out to “Your Data Will Be Used Against You.” !!!! youtu.be/wagYax-0yJI?... 0377
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Achievement unlocked. BookTV on C-Span — Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.c-span.org/program/book... 0467
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The fact that ordinary folks across the country are seeing the tools, companies, and privacy dangers of surveillance tech is heartening, and sort of inspiring, but the problems are deeper than ALPRs. We need more attention paid to the broader dangers of self-surveillance. 0166
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Who says book reviews don’t drive book sales. (I know there is a great irony in showcasing Kindle in a book about digital self-surveillance… but that is kinda the point of the book). 010
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Just waiting for my book to break into the mainstream. Flock is just one company in a billion dollar world of police surveillance. 082
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026In one month, many people you love will become law students. 1L year is hard, but they can make it easier by understanding the law of law school. This short book (100 simple rules) was written for people who want to know how to succeed. lnkd.in/eVS7cFBx 0103
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026GW Magazine… #books. researchmagazine.gwu.edu/patterns-pre... 074
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“Identify high harm individuals and locations”? Also, just curious, how do they identify “unknown unknowns”? 300
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026If you work for a tech company, court, law firm, police department, prosecutors office, public defender office, or are just interested in your privacy from government surveillance, Chatrie should be on your summer reading list. (Plus maybe a supplemental beach read…). 020
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Someone should place copies of “Your Data Will Be Used Against You” in front of the frame of the cameras. 1120
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026#9: Despite being perfectly set up for a discussion of digital rummaging and how “Your Data Can Be Used Against You,” apparently no one on the Supreme Court reads my work. Justice Gorsuch did mention rummaging, but no luck. 120
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026New surveillance technologies are going to make those politicized prosecutions trivially easy to bring. 22011
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026the1a.org/segments/wha... Who will start the national conversation on policing surveillance? Big question. The answer involves cows and law professors… but you have to listen to the conversation to understand. 051
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026How predictive data shapes power. How past data shapes power. Flip sides of the same dangerous and unregulated coin. #BookSky 082
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This is a great example of how seemingly “good” surveillance (protecting school children) becomes turned against everyone because all surveillance tools can be turned into surveillance systems in a digital age. 010
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026If only people realized how central it was to our constitutional system. 0141
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A new audience for “Your Data Will Be Used Against You”… shareholders. 000
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026But what if the sign says, … how could you not ask! 280
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026@chadtopaz.bsky.social Look what arrived in the mail. 0140
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Thank you to Collected Works Bookstore in #SantaFe. It was a charming and warm book talk in the most charming and warm bookstore. Support your local bookstores. #BookSky 091
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026#SantaFe Collected Works May 11 (tomorrow). Seems like the place to be. 061
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026As everyone should. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there. 011
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Countdown to Mother’s Day. Makes a perfect gift for moms who might be a bit too cavalier with their data. “The AI” is listening. #MothersDay 14511
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Today at George Washington University 020
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Honestly, this fact should be better known. It might make all that deferential language today in oral argument a bit more qualified. From the district court opinion. #Chatrie 021
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether your data can be used against you. Or, more precisely, whether your Google location data can be used against you if you opted in to location storage services across one of Google’s many products. 1/12 212767
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026@politicsprose.bsky.social Thank you! 081