Jennifer Kunze

I wrote in the @BaltimoreBrew about a new surveillance tool for BPD, which the Board of Estimates voted to approve $1.5 million for this morning. #ALPR #Baltimore #privacy #surveillance #deflock

Expansion of BPD’s license plate reader capability is dangerous – and flying in under the radar | Baltimore Brew Baltimore officials should shoot down the request on today’s Board of Estimates agenda like they shot down another surveillance tool, the spy plane [OP-ED]

A dangerous expansion of @baltimorepolice.bsky.social license plate reader capability is flying in under the radar on today's BOE agenda. tinyurl.com/5n85jh5 As we did with another surveillance tool, the spy plane, Baltimore should shoot it down. [OP-ED]

11/ AI enables DOD to take this data and connect the dots with other discrete datasets about US persons to recreate their movements, associations, and political views at scale – an invasion of privacy far more egregious than the type of surveillance before the Carpenter court.

8/ What is clear is that AI-enabled spying raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns that neither Congress nor the courts have directly grappled with – in large part because the law is not keeping up with how quickly the technology is evolving. But that doesn’t mean DOD has a blank check.

Exclusive: Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say The Pentagon is at odds with artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic over safeguards that would prevent the government from deploying its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S....

3/ In January, Anthropic and DOD were deadlocked over the appropriate uses of Claude. Anthropic wants assurances that the Pentagon will not use Claude to “spy on Americans or assist weapons targeting without sufficient human oversight,” which would violate the company’s usage policies.

Defense Dept. and Anthropic Square Off in Dispute Over A.I. Safety

1/ The dispute between Anthropic and DOD over the limits of using AI in warfare is escalating. I’ll have more to say on what these limits should be in a @brennancenter.org report out next month. But for now, here’s what you need to know, and what’s truly at stake 🧵:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

This is happening in cities all over the country through direct gifts, police foundations, or nonprofits—rich people are forcing an agenda of mass surveillance and elected officials never say no to “free money”

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

When I talk about more people turning out in spite of repression (or in response to it), people who've read a few articles about nonviolence say, "That's what happens! Violent efforts to repress nonviolent movements backfire!" But they often don't. It's special when people respond by showing up.

This Is Exactly What Privacy Experts Said Would Happen CBP’s trove of biometric data is catnip for bad actors.

I was quoted in this 2019 article about the risks of troves of biometric data collected by CBP from travelers. Six short years later and our data is being used against us, just like pretty much everyone warned it would be.

one reason we don’t need more data centers is we have a whole lot of data and most of it is just not good. increasing the available data will only make the situation worse

Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

Never reactivate it.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartf...

“People need to reject this kind of disingenuous framing and recognize the potential end result: a scary overreach of the surveillance state designed to catch us all in its net.”

Congresswoman @ramirez.house.gov: " Congress designed DHS [Department of Homeland Security] to violate our rights under the pretense of securing our safety."

" DHS cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled, and something new must take its place"

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...

"What we're seeing ... in hotels that have these types of contracts with the federal government is at night, when agents come back from their being out and about, beating people up, separating families and abducting people for fun all day, they drink heavily at the bar and have weapons on them."

"[C]olonizers, under [Christopher] Columbus's direction, engaged in mass murder against Indigenous people on the islands they arrived on, 'slaughtering everyone they found there, including small children, old men, pregnant women, and even women who had just given birth.'"

Trump Admin Plans to Place Statue of Christopher Columbus on White House Lawn A White House spokesperson said Trump views the colonizer and genocidaire as a “hero.”…

The Trump administration is planning to place a statue of Christopher Columbus — the colonizer whose legacy includes the enslavement and slaughter of millions of Indigenous people — on the White House lawn. The statue in question was fished out of the Baltimore Harbour where it was tossed in 2020.

Now that you mention “elevating:” when the overhead shot showed Bad Bunny standing on a square, I said “I bet that will be a raised platform” and instead it was a trap door – they not only didn’t raise him up, they dropped him down among people

Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.

The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.

They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

Benito carrying a football with musicians carrying flags behind him

Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order

For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.

It means evveeerrybody

Benito climbing up into the light pole

Lights flashing and strobing during this section to underscore the political commentary about the electrical grid

Ring also has partnerships (or pending) with two of the biggest police surveillance companies that are growing apps that merges dozens of data streams, Flock and Axon—how will search party show up in that partnership? Maybe not at all but it’s always a fluid and secretive situation!

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:

-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

Peep the LIGHT BLUE Puerto Rican flag in the window

The flag with the light blue triangle represents the Puerto Rican independence movement

For many years it was illegal to display on the island

(Lots more light blue flags forthcoming in this performance)