“In this kind of a fight, the center of gravity is the civilian population,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier this month. “And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat.”
#JobAlert: @ACLU_NorCal is hiring Technology & Civil Liberties Program Team interns for both the Spring of 2024 and the Summer of 2024! The applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, open until all positions have been filled. Details:
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Many of the internet’s ills are based on widespread corporate surveillance online. This pervasive system, ran by corporations and governments, stifles our speech and erodes our privacy. But together, we can dismantle it. https://t.co/fvT8nvKxjz
.@Google makes technical changes to moot #geofence requests from law enforcement, basically deleting the data that allows for dragnet #location searches so they don't have it anymore. https://t.co/ep4UlfJ33E
Recall DA @BrookeJenkinsSF refusing to hand over reports and videos to the SF Police Commission. "Police Commissioner Kevin Benedicto said the issue is threatening to kneecap reforms that came out of the U.S. Department of Justice review of #SFPD in 2016". https://t.co/9HG9lBWxzw
NOTABLE: Google announces dramatic changes to its "location history" function that should nullify all geofence warrants going forward—and I wouldn't be surprised if that is the point. Code is law, as they say.
https://t.co/vtUkSpyGkF (h/t https://t.co/3O6c1Jydqj)
NEWS: Jack Smith reveals in a filing he has extracted data from the phone Trump used in the White House — and can use it to pinpoint his location when he used the Twitter app.
w/ @joshgerstein
https://t.co/vQgjEwKeJa