Jake Snow

Ninth Circuit Court Denies Stay in L.A. Raids Case Decision leaves temporary order in place, barring DHS from unlawful stop practices

"This decision is further confirmation that the administration's paramilitary invasion of Los Angeles violated the Constitution and caused irreparable injury across the region."

More on our win from this evening: www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

Federal immigration arrests in SoCal are violating constitutional rights, new lawsuit argues Civil rights groups allege feds have targeted people based on skin color and blocked detainees from seeing lawyers. Officials say actions have been lawful and “highly targeted.”

"To them, if you are brown, they will hunt you down. To them, if you have dark skin, they will take you in." @mtajsar.bsky.social

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This is great — here in California, this change will help prevent out-of-state agencies and ICE from tracking drivers, including abortion-seekers and immigrants.

Flock points to a CA law that prohibits local/state agencies from sharing this info across state lines. A thread on how that came to be🧵

A fist rapidly made contact with a face, raising punching concerns.

ACLU Sues Sonoma County over Code Enforcement’s Runaway Drone Spying Program | ACLU of Northern CA

NEW lawsuit: Sonoma County is operating a runaway warrantless drone surveillance program that regularly invades residents' privacy, interrupts personal lives, and instills dread in those targeted. This violates the CA Constitution and we're taking the County to court. www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

Face surveillance isn't just incompatible with a healthy democracy, it's also a threat to public safety, here made worse by an unaccountable watch list, a seeming disregard to false match risks, and camera feeds accessible to an authoritarian federal government
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Impeccable vibe

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

A major victory against the world’s most notorious monger of malicious spyware.

BREAKING: In a major civil rights victory, a federal court today issued a preliminary injunction barring Border Patrol from using stop-and-arrest practices that violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

They can’t target people just because they’re Brown, or day laborers, or farm workers.

They did it, and are legends.

There is a time and a place for "et al." and this is neither the time nor the place.

NEW: We just filed an amicus brief urging the California Supreme Court to side with a mother appealing her wrongful listing on the child abuse registry.

Parents must have a meaningful opportunity to challenge unjust rulings.

Newsom Signals to California Privacy Watchdog That He’s on Big Tech’s Side on AI Regulation | KQED In an unusual letter to the California Privacy Protection Agency’s board, Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging the regulators to dial back proposed regulations on automated decision-making technology.

Folks this isn't complicated.

AI regulations are sensibly a part of privacy law. Privacy gives people control over the use of information about them. When a computer deprives people of a job or a loan, that's a privacy harm.

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Newsom Signals to California Privacy Watchdog That He’s on Big Tech’s Side on AI Regulation | KQED In an unusual letter to the California Privacy Protection Agency’s board, Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging the regulators to dial back proposed regulations on automated decision-making technology.

“It’s unfortunate to see a lot of the industry talking points coming out of a letter from the governor,” said @snowjake.bsky.social, a technology and civil liberties attorney at the @aclu-norcal.bsky.social. www.kqed.org/news/1203751... via @kqednews.kqed.org

Rümeysa Öztürk has not been accused of any crime. Plainclothes ICE agents grabbed her off the street, arrested, and detained her.

For nearly 24 hours, Ms. Öztürk’s attorney was unable to locate her as ICE quickly moved her in three different states.

We won’t stop fighting to bring Rümeysa home.

Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: the trillion dollar company behind Facebook and Instagram is effectively outsourcing the labor of combatting platform abuse to overworked and under-resourced school employees.

Big Tech is Trying to Burn Privacy to the Ground–And They’re Using Big Tobacco’s Strategy to Do It | TechPolicy.Press Jake Snow is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.

My piece detailing the parallels. www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-is-...

Emboldened by Trump, A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer Rules After the president made A.I. dominance a top priority, tech companies changed course from a meeker approach under the Biden administration.

Weak state laws rolling up to federal preemption. It's the big tobacco playbook all over again.

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The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

Thanks in part to the supposedly progressive city of San Francisco, we now have U.S. Supreme Court rulings that allow the criminalization of homelessness and weaken the Clean Water Act, putting the environment in even greater peril. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

How Congress Can Delete DOGE | TechPolicy.Press Rebecca Williams explores how DOGE’s budget can be restricted—if Congress decides to act.

Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE:

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ACLU sues Border Patrol over California immigration raid that set off panic among farmworkers Five Bakersfield residents are suing the federal government, alleging they were targeted by their race and deprived of constitutional rights.

So proud of my colleagues for bringing this righteous case. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Knight Institute Seeks Immediate Release of Special Counsel’s Report on Trump’s Mishandling of Classified Documents

We (@knightcolumbia.org) just filed a motion in Pres. Trump's criminal case in FL, seeking Volume II of the special counsel's report.

Our motion argues that disclosure is required under the common law and First Amendment rights of access to judicial documents.

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BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide.

This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.

It's an exceedingly basic point, but every lawsuit by people challenging the Trump administration's roiling chaotic looting of the government relies on a legal private right of action.

This is why people need the ability to enforce their own legal rights, against both companies and governments.

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

"Preemption has long been the tech industry’s holy grail. But few know its history. It turns out, Big Tech is pulling straight from the toxic strategy that Big Tobacco used in the 1990s... But it’s not too late.We can ensure our civil rights and civil liberties are protected in the digital age."