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San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance
Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city's controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous and costly automated license plate reader (ALPR) program.The TRUST Coalition—a grassroots alliance including Electronic...www.eff.org
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Jun 10, 2025
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?
Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.”
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it.
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Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard said:Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans' private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected.
As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a "back door" that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.
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Yet, it seems FinCEN is determined to defy the spirit of the court’s orders. It has since decided to reintroduce the requirement—albeit at $1,000 instead of $200. The only mention of the active cases came in the form of two footnotes saying that the parties in those cases are exempt from the new order until the injunctions are lifted.
Making matters worse, the order now applies to a vastly greater area. The original order covered as many as one million people living in the thirty affected zip codes in California and Texas. However, FinCEN has now expanded the order to cover 3.2 million people living across 126 zip codes in Arizona, California, and Texas. Part of this expansion occurred because FinCEN decided to target entire counties instead of individual zip codes. The motivation for this expansion, however, is unknown.
Yet, as if that was not enough, the requirement also went into immediate effect. It was published in the Federal Register and became effective on the same day. The only flexibility that was given was a 30-day transition period for the newly affected areas.
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