@digital4th.bsky.social
The Massachusetts campaign to protect ourselves & our data from unconstitutional government surveillance. Based in Cambridge, Belmont, Boston and Somerville since 2012. Sign up at www.warrantless.org
Victory in Cambridge! With the help of @aclum.bsky.social, @masspirates.bsky.social , @cambridgedsa.bsky.social, @aaup.org and all the members of the public who testified against it, we have ended the use of Flock Safety cameras in Cambridge, MA!
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Thanks to @purplebandanna.bsky.social , @digital4th.bsky.social and others for coming out today. Looking forward to coming back to @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social tomorrow. See you at noon!
01.11.2025 23:21 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday Shava!
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Podcast: ICE's 'Backdoor' Into a Nationwide AI Surveillance Network
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New: DHS tells police to brace for the anti-ICE movement to grow much bigger in threat bulletins last month that lists ordinary behavior, like riding a skateboard or livestreaming, as threatening to law enforcement.
By me w/ records by @propertyofthepeople.org:
Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I donβt know why this is even controversial. You donβt get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.
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Tom the Dancing Bug says what has to be said.
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Don't get excited, Flock is training law enforcement agencies on what to write in the search reason field. Functionally just telling them to stop using terms like "abortion," "ICE", & "immigration"
Surveillance can't provide safety because it isn't designed to. Surveillance is control, not safety
Deadline to submit comment to Seattle IT against SPD's proposed expansions of CCTV cameras & FUSUS is tomorrow 6/23. stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/take-action/
Nashville stopped pursuing FUSUS in April due to Trump & ICE's ability to access it nashvillebanner.com/2025/04/28/m...
So according to ICE, there was a pack of armed masked men *pretending* to be them at Dodger Stadium?
Uh ....
A screenshot of a Wired article by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, published May 14, 2025, with the headline: "CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers."
A screenshot of a Wired article by Lily Hay Newman, published June 16, 2025, with the headline: "Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses."
One month apart.
17.06.2025 13:56 β π 4602 π 1812 π¬ 26 π 38In a time when Texas cops can run nationwide searches for women seeking reproductive care, automated traffic cameras aren't all they're cracked up to be:
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Should Mass cities and towns have the power to ban masks?
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Massachusetts can #ChoosePrivacy if it wants to.
And right now, it really should.
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βA deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if youβre an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who wonβt identify themselves telling you to get in a vanβ, what a fuckin country
14.06.2025 16:33 β π 36799 π 10694 π¬ 366 π 250Last night, Cambridge City Council discussed what they could do about ICE raids, and agreed to have staff formulate appropriate language. Our notes on the discussion are here:
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City Councils (and Towns) can do more than they think:
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throwback to that time @dmehro.bsky.social found the location data of people who visited Epstein's island for no reason whatsoever www.wired.com/story/jeffre...
05.06.2025 19:47 β π 355 π 101 π¬ 5 π 1Today, we launch a new initiative, to help local elected officials in Massachusetts who are worried about the issue of masked or plain-clothes "ICE agents" conducting raids in our communities.
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DM us if you're interested in ordinance text for your town or city!
Troopers in Central Florida appear to have been given direction not to wear their name tags during ICE operations.
31.05.2025 16:49 β π 2316 π 1231 π¬ 166 π 103Leaks and official disclosures have repeatedly shown that "gang databases" like this are only good at spending money and putting people in prison - not at keeping people safe or ""predicting"" anything
It's not a matter of the database's (bad) intel or Palantir's software - it's conceptually flawed
If attempted, this would constitute flagrant violations of the Privacy Act of 1974 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
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New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
29.05.2025 17:36 β π 1287 π 569 π¬ 52 π 93We believe it would be lawful for any city or town, to pass an ordinance requiring their police department, in the event of purported ICE agents conducting a raid, to require those agents to identify themselves to police, and to treat the raid as being unlawful if they refuse.
Watch this space.
To read more about ShotSpotter's deployment in Cambridge, go here:
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The Black Response is organizing folks to turn out for a public hearing this coming Monday, June 2, 12pm-2pm at City Hall, on the audio surveillance technology ShotSpotter, deployed in poorer and higher-minority areas of Cambridge, Somerville and Boston.
End the ShotSpotter contract now!
The President wants Harvard to hand over surveillance footage of all protests in the last five years involving at least one Harvard student here on a nonimmigrant visa.
Let's hope they don't have any.
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