Albert Fox Cahn 🦊

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What the hell is this?

An NYPD Camera Points Directly Into Their Bedroom. They’re Suing the City Over It. The NYPD’s little-noted citywide surveillance system draws on a vast network of public and private cameras.

So proud of my colleagues at @stopspyingny.bsky.social, our partners at @ecbawm.com, and our amazing clients!!!! This sort of lawsuit is the reason I founded STOP, and the culmination of so many years of work.
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British friends, excited that UK preorders for my 1st book are live! @evanselinger.bsky.social and I explain why the DOGE (move fast & break things) approach is broken and how we can fix huge problems by moving slow and upgrading. You can get 25% off until Friday! www.waterstones.com/book/move-sl...

How the world's simplest sport became so tech-obsessed I fell in love with running. Then the Instagram ads started flooding in.

My latest piece! I explore the crazy world of #running products and all of the unproven inventions that are inundating my digital life. www.businessinsider.com/rise-running...

Watching what’s happening to CBS News is really terrifying. If we keep losing the integrity / independence of institutions like major broadcasters, universities, and newspapers, eventually there won’t be much left that actually ensures the most bedrock elements of an open democratic society.

Why is it so much harder to find new music now than it was a decade ago? It feels like all of this streaming services. Just use their AI to recycle the same familiar artist and tracks over and over again. It should be the golden Age of music discovery, but it feels like the dark ages instead.

#CharlieKirk says some awful things, but that doesn’t make his shooting any less awful. The more we normalize political violence, the more quickly we doom our democracy. A zealot with a gun can inflict grievous wounds, but they can’t delegitimize the ideology they fight. They only make it stronger.

From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.

"A lot of these predictive tools can create unintended errors where certain communities are underserved or misunderstood because of how the model missed or wrongly accounted for individuals’ risks in that community." @foxcahn.bsky.social #AI

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S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man

"Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition
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Aww, that’s too kind!

This was such a blast!!! Thank you so much for having me on and for bringing such needed scrutiny to these awful child tracking laws.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You

It was such an honor to have @foxcahn.bsky.social from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project on my podcast to talk about all the horrible invasive ways big tech is using “child safety” to dismantle civil liberties online and off.

Albert Cahn CahnCF.png Dr. Albert Cahn is a scientist who seems to have locked himself in a cell in Containment Block Baird. He offers to assist the player in escaping the facility if they free him by resetting t...

What on earth?? abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Albert_...

YouTube video by Proton Privacy Advocate Exposes All The Ways You're Being Surveilled

So excited to be able to partner with the amazing folks at @proton.me (especially Chris Cannucciari and Julia Jade Duffy) for this project on privacy and mass surveillance! youtu.be/QpFw7dk9l-0?...

The Facial-Recognition Sham Surveillance won’t make the internet safer.

After Tea’s recent breaches, with 70,000 user images allegedly leaked to, I decided to test out their facial verification for myself. Turned out I could break in in just a few minutes. 😬So why is creepy facial surveillance becoming such a big part of digital life? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

(3) Only a desperate person would pay $100 for a couple of pounds of sugar or flour, but that's the reality of life in a place where people had so little money to begin with, and now they so few places where they can spend what little they have.

(2) Well-intentioned people, imprisoned by ideology, can rationalize the most horrific crimes. But that doesn't make the crimes less horrific. And the reality of starvation is increasingly inescapable.

(1) As I see people denying the awful reality of Gaza, "fact checking" images of starving children for not being the perfect victims, it's hard to know what could possibly break through the wall of misinformation.

Such quality messaging 😂

I’ve seen some lackluster political events, but the anti-#Mamdani protest at Union Square is channeling a new level of desperation. Basically just organizers and camera crews. Highlights include chants in support of DeSantis and moving to Florida that drew looks of revulsion from onlookers. 🙄🙄🙄

Thanks as always! I don’t think I can fully get on board with that message, but I have repeatedly said “fuck the NYPD for co-opting everything good in city government.”

Thanks for amplifying this!

“The NYPD keeps using these incredibly disturbing companies to spy on New Yorkers, while hiding that surveillance from the public & violating NYC law in the process,” said Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Tech.Oversight Project. “The FDNY is clearly being complicit in enabling these NYPD abuses.”

Isn’t this just reinventing British prep schools? 😬

So many who baselessly claimed Mamdani is an antisemite are shockingly silent when Trump justifies his estate tax roll back by saying “Shylock” bankers are coming for family farms. It’s beyond a double standard, it’s complicity in the politicization and horrifying normalization of antisemitism.

Fuck

Aww, thank you so much!!!!

So the headline is more incindiary than I would have liked, but so glad the Daily News let me speak to this moment and why Mamdani’s election is good for NYC Jews. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/01/m...

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