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Cops ran hundreds of searches for license plates using targeted and offensive terms such as "roma" and "g*psy," and in many instances, without any mention of a suspected crime---perpetuating systemic harm by demeaning individuals based on their race or ethnicity. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/license-plate-surveillance-logs-reveal-racist-policing-against-romani-people

License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People

More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, according to audit logs obtained and analyzed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Nov 4

Requiring government ID just to make an app is a disaster for speech, privacy, and innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/application-gatekeeping-ever-expanding-pathway-internet-censorship

Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship

Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on these gatekeepers in order to assert that same control. Google’s central registration system will be devastating for the Android developer community. EFF has signed on to F-Droid’s open letter. If you care about taking back control of tech, you should too.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Nov 4

LISTEN: EFF’s Sarah Hamid joined KPFA Radio’s Law & Disorder on Tuesday to discuss how Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers are enabling warrantless, mass surveillance that threatens our privacy and civil rights. https://kpfa.org/episode/law-disorder-november-4-2025/

What is FLOCK surveillance w/ EFF's Sarah Hamid; Oakland Police Commission w/ Ricardo Garcia Acosta and Omar Farmer | KPFA

Flock Surveillance refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety, a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition and vehicle-tracking networks to police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S. This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks without sufficient oversight, … Continued

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The Verge Nov 4

Influencers have fractured reality in Portland https://www.theverge.com/policy/813408/portland-influencers-national-guard-oregon-ninth-circuit

Influencers have fractured reality in Portland

As the Oregon National Guard lawsuit goes through the Ninth Circuit, it’s become clear that right-wing content creators are shaping policy and law.

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The Verge Nov 4

I let Gemini watch my family for the weekend — it got weird https://www.theverge.com/tech/813523/gemini-for-home-google-nest-camera-hands-on

I let Gemini watch my family for the weekend — it got weird

Gemini promises smarter alerts from your Nest cams, but it shows how easily AI can get it wrong.

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Raw Story Oct 9

How our media became so vulnerable to Trump — and what we can do about it

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-2674169028/

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Nonilex Oct 9

A #DOJ ofcl…said the FBI's role includes analyzing financial networks for funding of activities involving violent crime.

Potential tools to defund or shut down the groups include #IRS investigations to strip them of tax-exempt status; #criminal probes by the DOJ & #FBI; #surveillance by federal law enforcement agencies; the use of #RICO statutes typically used for organized crime & financial investigations under anti-terror laws to identify #donors & #funders….

#law #WeaponizationOfGovernment

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CNN Oct 9

School shooting survivor released from hospital
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/us/video/wisconsin-school-shooting-survivor-ldn-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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School shooting survivor released from hospital | CNN

Samuel Garduno-Martinez was one of six people injured in the December 2024 Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Wisconsin that left two dead last year. On Wednesday he was finally discharged after nearly 300 days in the hospital.

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Nonilex Oct 9

Investigating the groups' funding & potentially stripping them of tax-exempt status could force some of them to close down, #CivilLiberty groups say.

#Trump last month also signed an executive order designating the anti-fascist movement #antifa as a domestic #terrorist organization, despite the group's decentralized nature & lack of formal structure.

#law #FirstAmendment #WeaponizationOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #propaganda