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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

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Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.

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G.A.N.G.S @gangscoalition.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@legalaidnyc.bsky.social @nyclu.org @psjpbc.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 08/10/2026
ICE out of the Bronx. ICE out of New York. ICE out - now.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
S.T.O.P. Research Director Eleni Manis was featured in an NYU Wagner Alumni Spotlight! Read more here: wagner.nyu.edu/news/story/a...
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Alumni Spotlight: Eleni Manis (MPA-PNP 2020) | NYU Wagner
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In an expose with @latinojustice.bsky.social, STOP found that over 33 months, NYPD officers accessed Flock Safety data 1,710 times. The lack of accountability for officers who have access to this data and continue to use it is alarming. Read more: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/04/r...
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Readers sound off on AI law enforcement, Cornell’s accused and NHL coverage
Opelika, Ala.: Re “NYPD probes department’s use of AI license plate readers” (Oct. 1): The NYPD has a contract with Vigilance. Nevertheless, officers accessed Flock Safety data 1,710 times in 33 month...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
STOP on noise cameras: "If you install a noise camera, it could be used to listen to just about anything in the vicinity.” - William Owen, STOP Communications Director Read here: nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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Are Noise Cameras Too Nosy?
Some privacy advocates say the cameras, intended to pick up muffler noise, loud music and horns, could be used to listen to just about anything.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ICE protestors in Maine found their data entered into Palantir’s Gotham-based ICM system, which automatically shares data with Customs and Border Protection. Read here: www.gadgetreview.com/ice-put-prot...
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ICE Put Protester Photos Into Palantir’s Surveillance Database
ICE agents allegedly logged bystander data in Palantir's ICM system during Maine immigration operations, raising questions about design, purpose limits, and constitutional rights.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Facial recognition software was crucial for DHS's massive federal enforcement campaign in Minneapolis, highlighting the ways Black migrants have heightened vulnerabilities to mass surveillance. @techpolicypress.bsky.social Read here: www.techpolicy.press/black-migran...
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Black Migrants Bear Brunt of ICE's Facial Recognition Push
The racialized, uneven consequences of these technologies often go unscrutinized, write Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Even after Syracuse ended its contract with Flock in March, the company continues to surveil Central New York through clients like school districts and retailers. This data has real, tangible effects on our lives. Read more: centralcurrent.org/syracuses-fl...
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Syracuse's Flock readers may have been removed, but the readers still flourish in Central New York
Syracuse University and Baldwinsville schools avowed Flock's merits while Congress heard testimony decrying license plate reader companies.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NYPD Flock usage overwhelmingly lacks transparency. "It's at least 24 officers who used Flock, but there's an awful lot of blanks. There are 418 searches, with no officer name, conducted by who knows who for the NYPD." - Eleni Manis, Research Director Read more: www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/29/n...
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NYPD reviewing department’s use of controversial AI license plate readers owned by Flock Safety
Two advocacy groups claim at least two dozen NYPD officers used Flock’s license plate reader database 1,710 times — even though the department doesn’t have a contract with the company.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"[There is a] general shift of policing toward a constant monitoring, rather than the original promises of the Fourth Amendment... it's very much a false narrative that surveillance will always lead to safety." - Michelle Dahl, Executive Director Read more: www.easthamptonstar.com/police-court...
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On Surveillance State Jitters | The East Hampton Star
George Orwell and “1984” were repeatedly invoked during a panel discussion of surveillance technology at LTV Studios Tuesday, particularly the Flock Safety license plate readers that have appeared her...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cities are now being forced to sign agreements allowing their ALPR data to be channeled into federal government surveillance servers- data which then becomes accessible to other law enforcement agencies who might previously not had access. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social 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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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Privacy is certainly a key concern, as well as how these technologies will contribute to the terror that immigrant communities are facing... I fear that these will be showing up at protests more and more” - STOP Communications Director Will Owen Read more here: www.scrippsnews.com/investigatio...
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New records detail ICE’s plan for four-legged robots named 'Spot'
ICE has a contract to start using Boston Dynamics' 'Spot' robot for searching areas that could be hazardous to humans, such as tunnels at the Southwest U.S. border.
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ChatGPT and Grok did so without hesitation, even though ChatGPT later admitted that exposing the hair of a woman who wears hijab “can be a meaningful violation of privacy or religious practice.” 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
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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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new frontier of surveillance: Amazon has introduced smart delivery glasses, a technology that will allow the company to record and surveil its employees' every move. Read more: jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...
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Amazon Is Perfecting Total Surveillance of Its Workforce
Amazon has long been synonymous with workplace surveillance. With the introduction of “smart delivery glasses,” the logistics giant may soon ensure that not a moment of its drivers’ time on the clock ...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A surveillance company shared plans with cops to add facial recognition to Flock cameras. They say the technology can be used to categorize individuals based on age, race, and gender to add to larger "watchlists." Read more: 404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Flock’s own newly announced guardrails are nothing more than a crisis PR stunt, still granting officers plenty of power to misreport how they are using the database.” - William Owen, STOP Communications Director www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ks0...
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Indianapolis police officer goes to court, accused of abusing Flock cameras
YouTube video by WISH-TV
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After reading our report with @latinojustice.bsky.social , @nytimes.com reporter Maria Cramer investigated and found #NYPD officers used #Flock after the firm approached them with a free trial—without approval from NYPD executive leadership. Read the full story: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/n...
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N.Y.P.D. Officers Used Flock Safety to Track License Plates
Public records show police officers used Flock Safety’s technology to make more than 1,700 searches. The department did not have a contract with the company.
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF @latinojustice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New York state banned local police from doing ICE's work. In the Times Union, our President Lourdes M. Rosado writes that the state must now close the loopholes and pass New York for All. Read the op-ed: visit.latinojustice.org/close-the-loopholes
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Flock wants to shut down the Flock Surveillance Map, a detailed map of its surveillance devices. The database not only shows the scope of Flock's reach, but also its vulnerability to data leaks. Read Nikita Mazurov's article at: theintercept.com/2026/09/24/h...
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Surveillance is booming with the Trump administration’s unprecedented spending on spyware... This has led to a surge in spyware firms looking to cash in on the erosion of our civil rights and privacy.” -William Owen, STOP Communications Director Read more here: fedscoop.com/dhs-ice-surv...
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ICE awards contested, controversial surveillance contract to Thomson Reuters
Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.
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Reinvent Albany @reinventalbany.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Transparency Advocates (@beta.nyc, @citizensunionny.bsky.social, @nyclu.org, @freedom.press, @reclaimtherecords.org, @legalaidnyc.bsky.social, @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social, @stopspyingny.bsky.social) Ask NYC Dept of Records to Publish FOIL Implementation Plan. Read our letter here: bit.ly/4iIquVP
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Transparency Advocates Ask NYC Dept of Records to Publish FOIL Implementation Plan - Reinvent Albany
September 15, 2026 Shawn(ta) Smith-CruzCommissionerDepartment of Records and Information Services RE: Public Release of OpenRecords Law Implementation Report, and Keeping OpenRecords Open Source Dear ...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The outrage is reaching beyond Flock now to other license plate reader companies... There are lots of alternatives waiting to fill Flock’s shoes. And they’re already deployed by the hundreds of thousands.” -STOP Research Director Eleni Manis Read more: www.thefreelancenews.org/home/what-ar...
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WHAT ARE 'FLOCK' CAMERAS? — THE FREE LANCE NEWS
FLOCK CAMERAS ARE A BRAND OF SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS THAT COLLECT PICTURES OF LICENSE PLATES AND ADD THEM TO A DATABASE THAT POLICE USE TO TRACK PEOPLE AND TARGET THEM
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“This is a tool that is incredibly expansive and powerful and there don’t appear to be any appropriate limits or regulations on how people use it...” -Senior Counsel for LatinoJustice PRLDEF Andrew Case
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The outstanding question is, was the NYPD knowingly using Flock?... It’s just completely unclear what the NYPD relationship with Flock is and we had assumed, until we saw this data, that it simply wasn’t using Flock.” -STOP Research Director Eleni Manis Read more: amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/09...
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Did the NYPD fail to disclose Flock camera database access?
Questions arise about whether the NYPD properly disclosed Flock camera database access to New Yorkers.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Faith leaders across the Twin Cities say they're still dealing with fallout from the surge, whether it's lingering fear among migrants, tensions over government surveillance, or persistent financial assistance requests.” Read Giovanna Dell'Orto's article at: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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Minnesota churches roiled by legal battle over ICE surveillance and right to protest
Court cases involving Twin Cities churches and immigration enforcement highlight how the acrimonious debate continues to roil faith communities more than six months since the federal surge turned Minn...
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Andrew Case @aclaudecase.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Last week, @latinojustice.bsky.social and @stopspyingny.bsky.social revealed that the NYPD conducted 1,700 Flock searches even though they "don't have a contract." The @nypdnews.bsky.social doesn't deny it, but will not explain what's going on. amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/09...
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Did the NYPD fail to disclose Flock camera database access?
Questions arise about whether the NYPD properly disclosed Flock camera database access to New Yorkers.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"This legislation would rein in the use of all automated license plate readers in New York State, imposing severe limits on their deployment and data retention." - Worthington #Flock #surveillance
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"But the problem extends far beyond Flock, with numerous other automated license plate reader companies tracking our every move on the road." - Worthington #Flock #surveillance
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"From small towns to cities as large as Los Angeles, communities across the country are canceling their contracts with Flock and condemning mass surveillance." - STOP Advocacy & Community Engagement Manager Corinne Worthington #Flock #surveillance www.dailyfreeman.com/2026/09/22/h...
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Hinchey bill would clamp down on distribution of license plate data
State Sen. Michelle Hinchey has launched legislation that, if enacted, would protect the traveling public from the unchecked use of automatic license plate reader technology, including systems operate...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: NYPD Ran 1,710 Flock Searches Despite Publicly Denying Contract. Read the full press release here: www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
Surveillance camera mounted on a pole. Text reads: WE CAUGHT NYPD WORKING WITH FLOCK. LINK IN BIO. Text reads: TO DATE, NYPD HAS PUBLICLY DENIED FLOCK CONTRACTS. YET... S.T.O.P. and LatinoJustice PRLDEF found NYPD ran 1,710 Flock searches between March 2023 and December 2025. S.T.O.P. obtained this data through the national “Have I Been Flocked?” database. Fast moving cars on NYC street. Text reads: WE'RE DEMANDING NYPD EXPLAIN HOW THEY TRACK NEW YORKERS ON THE ROAD—AND THEY HAVE FIVE DAYS TO RESPOND. LEARN MORE AT THE LINK IN BIO.
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Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) @immdefenseproject.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For immigrant NYers this is about more than the payouts: 9 mos into Mamdani’s first year, the NYPD itself has changed little... continuing the kinds of enforcement practices that disproportionately bring immigrants into contact w/police make them more vulnerable to Trump’s mass deportation machine.
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NYPD Misconduct Payouts Still Soar Under Mamdani -- And May Keep Growing
So far, NYPD settlement payouts under Mamdani are holdovers. Without policy changes, they might keep skyrocketing.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The tide is turning nationally against Flock cameras. President Trump’s response? “I like them.” Read more here: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Trump says he likes Flock license-plate cameras amid growing backlash
The president, while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology “an infringement,” said he supports it “because of law enforcement.”
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: NYPD Ran 1,710 Flock Searches Despite Publicly Denying Contract. Read the full press release here: www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
Surveillance camera mounted on a pole. Text reads: WE CAUGHT NYPD WORKING WITH FLOCK. LINK IN BIO. Text reads: TO DATE, NYPD HAS PUBLICLY DENIED FLOCK CONTRACTS. YET... S.T.O.P. and LatinoJustice PRLDEF found NYPD ran 1,710 Flock searches between March 2023 and December 2025. S.T.O.P. obtained this data through the national “Have I Been Flocked?” database. Fast moving cars on NYC street. Text reads: WE'RE DEMANDING NYPD EXPLAIN HOW THEY TRACK NEW YORKERS ON THE ROAD—AND THEY HAVE FIVE DAYS TO RESPOND. LEARN MORE AT THE LINK IN BIO.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read our "Deportation Data Centers" report here: www.stopspying.org/deportation-...
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S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
State Senator Sabrina Cervantes cited our 2024 research report "Deportation Data Centers" to request an audit of California's five fusion centers. These federally funded intelligence hubs raise many privacy concerns over how ICE can access this data. Read here: www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
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How Sacramento PD shares your location data with the federal government
The department’s license plate cameras captured data 290 million times last year. Here’s where it went.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"New Yorkers deserve to know how, when, where, and why they are being spied on by the police. We know that police officers throughout New York—especially Nassau County—share data with ICE." - @latinojustice.bsky.social supervising attorney Andrew Case
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The NYPD told the public it had no Flock contract, but left out the part where its officers used Flock for years, and possibly continue to do so. We’re demanding that the NYPD explain how it tracks New Yorkers on the road." - STOP Research Director Eleni Manis #Flock #NYPD
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: NYPD Ran 1,710 Flock Searches Despite Publicly Denying Contract S.T.O.P. and LatinoJustice PRLDEF Demand Records Related to Their Findings @latinojustice.bsky.social #Flock #NYPD www.stopspying.org/content-inpu... www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"AirTags and Ring doorbells are in fact similar to Flock in that they also come with myriad privacy threats." — S.T.O.P. Communications Director Will Owen "But Flock’s massive, nationwide dragnet is on an entirely different scale from these tools." www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-...
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Experts Spot An Extreme Flaw In Katie Miller’s Pro-Flock Camera Rationale
Miller tweeted that she favors cameras “to protect OUR community and OUR kids.”
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TODAY, 3 PM ET! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
S.T.O.P.'s latest blog post explains how new legislation threatens Fourth Amendment rights and privacy protections more than ever before in America's 250 years. Read here: www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“ Sept. 11 really accelerated the infrastructure development and kind of opened that Pandora's box that we no longer can go back to what things were like before," -Michelle Dahl, executive director of STOP. Read more in the Gothamist's recent article: gothamist.com/news/assume-...
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‘Assume there’s a camera now’: How 9/11 spurred NYC’s vast private surveillance network
A centralized surveillance network constructed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks relies on private building owners citywide.
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Protect your rights on and off campus with STOP’s Power Down Surveillance webinar on September 16, 3–4 PM. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
STOP Surveillance Technology Oversight Project presents a webinar on "Back to School? Back to the Surveillance Basics."
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock's founder is ready to make mass surveillance impossible to avoid, regardless of what that means for your privacy. Read @bradybricknerwood.bsky.social's report about how companies are weaponizing safety concerns to sell technology. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anthropic is establishing a system to spy on activists calling for a slowdown of AI development, with a goal of stopping protests before they happen: a clear effort to surveil speech. Read @drboguslaw.bsky.social's report for The American Prospect here. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 10/09/2026
@unicornriot.bsky.social spoke with Isaac Sant along with privacy & civil rights experts at @fightforthefuture.org , @stopspyingny.bsky.social & @rightsdissent.bsky.social, highlighting the surveillance campaign that targeted protesters, union members & activists. unicornriot.ninja/2026/dhs-fac...
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DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, raising questions about why an agency created ...
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"This is really alarming. Hospitals must scrutinize the platforms they work with in their data collection to minimize information that can be weaponized." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #Qgenda #surveillance
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The last thing ICE needs is a camera-equipped canine that can open doors...Congress must step in and put ICE’s spending on a leash." - S.T.O.P. Communications Director Will Owen #ICE #BostonRobotics fedscoop.com/ice-robot-do...
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ICE plans for robodogs met with concern by privacy experts
The planned $2 million investment follows increased use of the tech in law enforcement operations, such as to support security operations during the World Cup.
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