🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔

@cendemtech Deputy Director on Surveillance. Expert on tech, AI, privacy, and surveillance policy and 4A law. Foodie and movie fan.

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

A very bad ruling for privacy rights. Warrantless border searches continue to escalate, hitting new records every quarter.

For more information on the messy state of border search law across the circuits, check out @CenDemTech blog:
https://t.co/I50V9nv2NZ

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

The Second Circuit holds that no warrant and no suspicion is needed to search a citizen's cell phone at the border. According to the court, per Judge Menashi, the border search exception authorizes searches to find criminals crossing the border, and Riley does not apply. #N

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

I would encourage reporters to take this claim with a big big dose of skepticism (esp considering false claims about surveillance going dark in April)

The Nov timeline is absurdly exaggerated, and the law has a provision to continue an active certification during a pending one

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

Scoop: Intelligence officials have told the Hill that they need to pass a FISA Section 702 reauthorization bill by Thanksgiving to avoid a lapse in the spring for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, per multiple sources.

Takes several months to make arguments at the court before its certification expires.

Reporting w/ @briana_reilly @AnthonyAdragna

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Want to reauthorize FISA 702?

Add a simple warrant requirement—adapted to the unique features of FISA investigations—with respect to queries directed at the stored, private communications of known U.S. citizens.

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

AI has in fact already killed humans:

Russia has deployed drones in Ukraine with fully autonomous AI targeting decisions, and reporting Israel’s Project Lavender shows AI designating targets with human-in-loop-in-name-only.

https://t.co/LTNWfXDaxZ

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Video shows Flock walking police through how to monitor a No Kings protest in real time. I do not have to agree with a single sign at that protest to say this plainly: Surveillance aimed at your political opponents today will be aimed at you tomorrow.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Flock specifically taught police how to surveil No Kings protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races:

"I’ve got the video footage to monitor when things go sideways, I know when the environment is starting to shift."

https://t.co/FmWJHRAnfM

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

@rahul @Ned_Donovan You do understand that for the scenario he's describing where a witness IDs a car but doesn't get the plate number ALPRs aren't going to be able to automatically flag the car, right?

You're cheerleading a hypo that your mass surveillance cameras in no way actually help with

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

The argument here is that because sometimes human witnesses don't catalog a license plate of a vehicle fleeing a crime we need an AI surveillance network that can always grab plate IDs.

Really? That's really the pitch for "this will mean less invasive policing"

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

Really good article from a cop who has used Flock pretty extensively. This excerpt stood out to me the most.

Despite what the anecdotal hysteria suggests, tools like Flock make it less likely for officers to pull over the wrong person.

Read it here: https://t.co/wOEOGsKIzD

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

Hey Ron how did the cameras get there? Who paid to put the Flock cameras there Ron????

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

"These cameras, the license plate readers — I think it’s out of control...When I see like a police officer using this to track like an ex-girlfriend I’m like you know, what the hell’s going on with this...I don’t want to have this become a surveillance state"

- DeSantis on Flock

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

@SenSanders The current dangers of Flock and other ALPR networks are just the tip of the iceberg:
AI monitoring of driving patterns that flag you to be pulled over for “suspicions” driving, facial recognition, and scanning videos to track people are being built in:
https://t.co/Q7YahKPYaG

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

The current dangers of Flock and other ALPR networks are just the tip of the iceberg:
AI monitoring of driving patterns that flag you to be pulled over for “suspicions” driving, facial recognition, and scanning videos to track people are being built in:
https://t.co/Q7YahKPYaG

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

STOP FLOCK. STOP AI MASS SURVEILLANCE.

Totalitarianism is when a government or another entity with overwhelming power seeks to know, control and influence everything you do, say and even think. I fear very much that if we don't act aggressively, that is where we’re heading.

You may not know it, but you may already be being tracked by artificial intelligence.

Flock, a surveillance company backed by Big Tech oligarchs like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, has installed more than 120,000 AI-powered surveillance cameras across America.

These AI cameras scan and record 20 BILLION vehicles every month across more than 6,000 communities.

What does that mean for you? It means that if Flock is in your community, every time you leave your house, a Flock camera records and tracks you.

If you are dropping your kids off at school, Flock knows.

If you are going to a doctor, Flock knows.

If you are going out on a date, Flock knows.

And that’s not all.

Newer Flock cameras do not just record vehicles. They record people. Flock’s AI system can combine images of you and your vehicle with databases of phone numbers, relatives and court records to find out who you are, where you're going and why.

In my view, this raises some very fundamental questions. Do we want to live in an America where AI companies like Flock can work with the government to track our every movement? Do we want to live in an America where our privacy rights and civil liberties — enshrined in the Constitution — are traded away so that AI oligarchs can collect more information, and increase their profits even more?

The answer must be NO. We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.

We must come together to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to do just that.

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

There is a compromise: It's called getting a warrant

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"What we have to prioritize as a country is compromise."

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley argues Americans shouldn't be forced to choose between privacy and safety as lawmakers debate restrictions on public safety technology.

Langley says he values his own family's privacy, but argues an outright ban goes too far. His comparison: America didn't ban cars because of the risks. It created laws to make them safer.

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

“The anti Shotspotter playbook” also strikes me as such an odd rebuttal to criticisms of Flock and ALPRs when …. Tons of audits and studies have found that Shotspotter was an incredibly wasteful over-hyped AI tech that did not provide any value.

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

Police have been caught using Flock cameras to look up people carrying Trump flags and cars with Trump bumper stickers:

https://t.co/0S9jg5Y0o8

[Rafael A. Mangual @Rafa_Mangual]

The anti-ALPR/Flock push is basically a replay of the anti-Gunshot Detection/ShotSpotter debate: Anti-police leftists (with the enthusiastic help of a handful of left-libertarians that almost always agree with them) are pushing this b/c they think policing is racist. DSA slop.

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

Flock cameras, the new data centers?

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

Using ALPRs for an EZ Pass lane can be used to track when you drive through a toll a highway.

Comprehensive Flock and ALPR networks can be used to track how you go to a church or seek medical care or engage in political activity.

[Nathan Leamer @NathanLeamerDC]

For years you all willingly paid your speed camera fines and peacefully drove through EZ Pass lanes.

BUT Flock is just beyond the pale, a provocation requiring a response of vandalism and domestic terrorism?

This makes no sense to me.

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

120,000 cameras creating an AI surveillance panopticon across thousands of communities gets you nearly …. 600 crimes allegedly stopped by the tech

We need to put guardrails pervasive surveillance tech
https://t.co/0S9jg5Y0o8

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

Here’s a long list of news stories about times Flock cameras have stopped crime
https://t.co/VIHvalyOZD

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

@SenSanders https://t.co/0S9jg5Y0o8

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

@WIRED https://t.co/0S9jg5Y0o8

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

New for @techpolicypress:

Stalking, misidentifications, invasions of privacy - we're already seeing plenty of harms from ALPR networks like Flock

But the biggest dangers from this surveillance tech are what comes next if we don't seriously rein it in

https://t.co/0S9jg5Y0o8