California will be the first state to audit the operations of its federal fusion centers.
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/03/california-opens-fusion-center-audit/
Are your local cops telling ICE about you? California is now investigating
The state will audit three of its federally-funded fusion centers amid concerns about violations of civil liberties and privacy.
Minnesota sues Trump administration over access to evidence in shootings by federal agents • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota prosecutors escalated their fight with the Trump administration over Operation Metro Surge on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit seeking to force the federal government to turn over evidence in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens and the wounding of a third person by federal immigration agents. “Minnesotans are seeing their federal government hide evidence […]
Judge sanctions public defender in case that raises critical issues about criminal justice - 48 hills
Does a 'tough on crime' mayor have to fund the public defender as well as the cops and DA?
City of Berkeley delays
#Flock #ALPR vote till June, running out of time at 1:30 in the morning after vociferous public comment.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/25/berkeley-flock-safety-vote-delayed-alprs-cameras-drones-nova
Berkeley council delays vote on ‘largest surveillance expansion in the city’s history’
After hours of debate, the council's vote on a $2 million expansion of the city’s Flock Safety surveillance network was postponed until June.
"For the first time, the 1st Amendment isn’t part of the discussion. Instead the case is the first to go to trial that seeks to hold
#tech companies accountable for harm by using tort law which is normally the province of ambulance chasers and too-hot McDonald’s coffee"
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/get-ready-more-big-tech-lawsuits-design-not-content-first-amendment-section-230.php
Get ready for more Big Tech lawsuits about design, not content.
A new wave of cases pin blame for tech’s harms on product design—keeping the First Amendment and Section 230 out of the conversation.
"The
#Wyden Siren — the pattern where Senator Ron Wyden sends a cryptic public signal that something terrible is happening behind the classification curtain, can’t say what it is, and then is eventually proven right. Well, the siren is going off once again"
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/the-wyden-siren-goes-off-again-well-be-stunned-by-what-the-nsa-is-doing-under-section-702/?
The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702
Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you…
Look what you did when you "tagged your friends". "The surveillance hardware is a $300 fashion accessory, the database was built by 3 billion people tagging photos for free, and the targets are anyone, anywhere, who never agreed to any of it"
#meta #smartglasses https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/15/meta-is-turning-its-smart-glasses-into-a-mass-surveillance-tool-and-you-cant-stop-it/
Meta Is Turning Its Smart Glasses Into A Mass Surveillance Tool… And You Can’t Stop It - Yanko Design
If not Palantir, why Palantir-shaped?? Palantir builds spy tech for the CIA, DHS, and ICE. It aggregates data, maps your life, and tells governments who to watch. Meta is building something with the same bones. It's called Name Tag, a facial recognition feature coming to Ray-Ban smart glasses that lets a wearer look at a
Data centers plan on guarding their facilities with robot dogs. "There are 5,000 data centers in the US alone, 800 to a thousand new data centers being built currently. So we see that as a large market for us."
#datacenters #robots https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-dogs-quadruped-data-center-security-boston-dynamics-ghost-robotics-2026-3
Robot dogs are protecting data centers. Operators are seeing payoffs.
Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics are selling robot dogs to data center operators, providing perimeter security and inspection capabilities.
Video released of unauthorized police chase that killed a bystander shows OPD cops turning off lights, turning off body cameras, laughing and not getting medical care as a 19 year old dying on he sidewalk.
#sideshows https://oaklandside.org/2026/03/18/lolo-soakai-oakland-police-chase-video/
Video of Oakland police ‘ghost chase’ captures cops laughing after deadly collision
Graphic video from the OPD car chase that turned fatal for a 28-year-old bystander also shows that the officers abruptly left the scene.
The sell-out of the DACA young adults is one of the worst betrayals by government in this new century.
#Dreamers #Immigration https://www.ms.now/news/ice-detains-daca-recipient-premature-baby
‘Americans at heart’: ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU
Juan Chavez Velasco’s case reflects a growing pattern: The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed DACA shielded them — and letting their renewals expire unanswered.
