The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses.
Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
The Department of Homeland Security is abusing administrative subpoenas to terrorize people and stop them from speaking out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/
Today, Prof. John Clarke at UC Berkeley (who is, full disclosure, my father-in-law) won the Nobel Prize in Physics!
He also spoke out about how the Trump administration's cuts would "cripple science" and take a decade to rebuild.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115334923455329102
California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability.The Corporate...
ACLU is hiring a IT program manager
https://www.aclu.org/careers/apply/?job=8036945002&type=national
“These cuts are just the most recent in a series of a sledgehammer approach to the critical US teams supporting IT infrastructure. […] We’re wrestling with what it will mean for ourselves and our families, as well as the impact on our partners and the American people.
“But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet.”
For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient but effective, and to save money for American taxpayers.
”I lost all but a few loyal friends, my devoted family, and all but lost my newspaper but thank god I retained the pearl of great price—my self respect.”
Here’s @dansinker with a reminder that fascism always, always falls: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
Needed to read this tonight; maybe you did too.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adrianna Tan
CenDemTech
Ethan Marcotte