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ICE officers shouldn't be allowed to stick a phone in anyone's face to run face recognition without their consent. A coalition of privacy and civil rights advocates are telling DHS to end the program immediately.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/rights-organizations-demand-halt-mobile-fortify-ices-handheld-face-recognition

Another flagrant example of Trump apparatchiks ignoring a federal court's explicit order and doing what the judge told them not to do.

At what point will judges start, you know, doing something about this repeated lawbreaking?

https://apnews.com/article/babson-student-deported-thanksgiving-467393d8d9b9ae6351f99de7b9cbfb98

As an interesting note...GPS has been acting weirder here as of late.... This is in Costa Rica. I admit to wondering if this is from futzes to it for invasion of Venezuela.

The GUARD Act’s sponsors claim it will keep our children safe, but that’s not true. Instead, it will undermine both safety and autonomy by replacing parental guidance with government mandates and building mass surveillance infrastructure instead of privacy controls. Congress should reject the GUARD Act. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/surveillance-mandate-disguised-child-safety-why-guard-act-wont-keep-us-safe

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Left unchecked, company and government use of automated decision-making systems in areas such as housing, health care, law enforcement, and employment have already caused discriminatory outcomes based on protected statuses. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/trump-administrations-order-ai-deeply-misguided

Tell USPTO: keep patent challenges fair and open. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable

The myth that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.

Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.

Greetings Mastodon friends

My team has started "managed data services" for non-technical companies. I.e, we deploy our Very Nerdy People to protect people from vendors and set up a sane, affordable data practice

If anyone knows a non-technical person that is running a company that might want this, I would very much appreciate being put in touch

We spread the holy word of open source and have managed to get costs below $10K per month for Real Engineering

Sorry for talking about b2b sales 💀

Thanks to all the scientists, archivists, and data hoarders mobilizing to defend against the censure of life saving medical research for using accurate descriptions of sex and gender. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/ddosed-policy-website-takedowns-and-keeping-information-alive

Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:

❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)

The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.

👁️Big Techs like #Gmail and #WhatsApp will continue to scan your data.

Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?

Every statement that begins, "I asked ChatGPT and it said..." should be preceded with, "I was too fucking lazy to look this up and use my own brain, so..."

@historyofpunkrock while there were a fair few the art and music of "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" by the DKs was a stands out

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