PDX Privacy

The State of Surveillance in Portland (and Beyond): A Threat Assessment, Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup *(This is a hybrid event both in person and online. **Online link will be posted the day of the event!)*** **Data is collected on us every day** \- from license\-plate num

Hi #portland tonight is our event on surveillance, happening at 6 pm. If you haven't signed up yet please do and join us in person or online: www.meetup.com/portlands-te...

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In this episode, I speak with Justin Hendrix, the CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. We talk about ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), surveillance, and AI. Recorded Oct 21. Released Nov 10, 2025

Surveillance, with Justin Hendrix | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social

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now that the govt shutdown is over, y'all will need to really yell and scream about these bills because many of them are going to be pushed again.

tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

The State of Surveillance in Portland (and Beyond): A Threat Assessment, Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup *(This is a hybrid event both in person and online. **Online link will be posted the day of the event!)*** **Data is collected on us every day** \- from license\-plate num

Are you concerned about ICE and other federal agencies operating in your communities, spying on you and your neighbors? Then take some agency by joining us next Monday to discuss surveillance in our community w/ Alex Marthews from RestoreThe4th & @councilormorillo.bsky.social

AI Surveillance on the Rise in US, but Tactics of Repression Not New | TechPolicy.Press Resistance sends a message that intimidation tactics won’t work and to those targeted that they are not alone, writes Dia Kayyali.

And this from @dia.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/ai-surveilla...

To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.

This from Emily Tucker: www.techpolicy.press/to-have-demo...

The State of Surveillance in Portland (and Beyond): A Threat Assessment, Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup *(This is a hybrid event both in person and online)* **Data is collected on us every day** \- from license\-plate numbers scanned by cameras throughout our cities\, to loc

If you haven't already signed up register today to come learn about surveillance in Portland and what it means for our immigrant communities and communities at large as well as what our elected leaders are doing to address abuses of power by the govt!

www.meetup.com/portlands-te...

The State of Surveillance in Portland (and Beyond): A Threat Assessment, Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup *(This is a hybrid event both in person and online)* **Data is collected on us every day** \- from license\-plate numbers scanned by cameras throughout our cities\, to loc

Hi folks, are you concerned about the recent immigration raids in Portland? We will be hosting an event on November 17th regarding privacy concerns around data collection and surveillance. Sign up today! www.meetup.com/portlands-te...

Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock The partnership allows police agencies who use Flock software to request footage from Ring users in the Neighbors app.

#Amazon #Ring just partnered with #Flock Safety to create a surveillance pipeline from your doorbell straight to police databases, including ICE, Secret Service & Navy. Same day as the announcement, @404media.co exposed Flock’s fed access. They’re not even hiding it anymore.

Ring Expands Community Requests to Additional Community Safety Partners - The Ring Blog Ring’s mission is all about making neighborhoods safer. Earlier this year, we told you about Community Requests—a feature that enables customers to respond to requests for help from local public safet...

#Ring just announced they’re partnering with #Flock Safety to pipeline your doorbell footage directly to police. You know, Flock.. the company that’s been caught letting #ICE track vehicles without warrants. They promised to stop warrantless requests in 2024. That lasted exactly 9 months…

Search the Data Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research

The Electronic Frontier Foundation maintains the Atlas of Surveillance, a searchable database tracking police surveillance technology including Flock cameras by city, county, and agency across the U.S. You can search by your location or leave it blank to browse the entire country.

When users contacted Digi, Movistar, Vodafone about broken WireGuard VPN connections, ISPs claimed “no technical issues found” while actively poisoning DNS queries. They’re gaslighting customers to avoid admitting court-ordered sabotage.

ISP Blocking of No-IP's Dynamic DNS Enters Week 2 * TorrentFreak Spanish ISPs blocked No-IP's dynamic DNS service over a week ago. For local users, artificial disruptions like these are part of everyday life.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening… ISPs are redirecting ddns.net to 127.0.0.1

It’s DNS poisoning as official policy. They’re deliberately breaking legitimate network infrastructure to target piracy sites they won’t even name. As a network engineer, this is architectural sabotage.

Coming soon!

YouTube video by MuckRock MuckRock x TJA FOIAthon

Ileana from @transjournalists.org is doing some live FOIA filing with @muckrock.com ! Suggest something you're curious about on the livestream and join the fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QwO...

Trump's Department of Justice sues Oregon, Maine for refusing to hand over voter information The Justice Department alleges that Oregon and Secretary of State Tobias Read violated multiple federal laws by refusing to hand over the state's voter rolls.

This is a gross abuse of privacy if the DOJ wins a case against our state to hand over private information on voters. No party, no government besides our own democratically elected government in the State of Oregon should have access to our private data and personal information.

A surveillance tower in Mexico becomes an unsettling landmark for privacy advocates When completed, the Torre Centinela in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, will be a 20-story surveillance colossus serving state governments on both sides of the border. Activists and privacy advocates are warnin...

It's time to take privacy seriously for all Americans. Why? Because a wave of anti-privacy monuments are being built into our landscape:

🧵 Portland Police are accepting comments on Automated License Plate Reader policy until tomorrow. I spent lots of personal time lately to dig into this. There's very little info about the ALPR system. The policy under review is from 2013. Here's what I noted in my comments -- You can comment too:

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It is officially author rebuttal time for @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers. For me this year's crop was broadly in the AI governance subject area. Awesome learning opportunity!

Leaving Money on the Table: Inside Portland Water Bureau’s Algorithmic Pricing Program Portland is testing a machine learning algorithm for water bill pricing that promises both affordability and higher revenues. Here’s the first in-depth analysis of the program and the tech be…

🧵Can city utilities boost revenues, reduce debt burdens & do so equitably? My latest personal reporting uses records obtained via public records request to investigate Portland Water Bureau's algorithmic segmented pricing program, inspired by a corporate tech pricing scheme. I dug deep on the data:

YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.

The more pressure platforms and websites face to age-gate services, the more radically it could change people's relationships with the internet, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @arstechnica.com. arstechnica.com/tech-policy...

One has to wonder how secure data centers are, particularly with regard to public consumer data that is collected.

AI concerns are a bipartisan and frankly a post political issue. We must break free of our political tribes and meet these problems head on. We can only win with a coalition of serious people seriously approaching these potential threats to the safety and security of our communities.

Some very serious and legitimate questions need to be posed to our elected reps and government offices.

A very serious concern is ICE having backdoor access to security cameras. And how many surveillance cameras in a city do agencies have? and how easy for those surveillance networks, both private and public, to access through legal or illegal means by both US and foreign intel agencies?

Appreciate speaking with Justin and working with the team at @techpolicypress.bsky.social, as always.

@emilymbender.bsky.social

Coming Soon: Redtail's Investigation of Portland's Algorithmic Segmented Pricing System for Utility Bills | Kate Kaye Get more from Kate Kaye on Patreon

AI policy & gov algo wonk alert:

An in-depth investigation I've been working on for months about an algorithmic segmented pricing system for utility bills piloted in Portland will be out soon - based on docs obtained via public records request. Follow my Patreon or redtailmedia.org/get-redtail-...