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ICE Disappearances Documented by New Site Backed by Pritzker
Illinois Governor Pritzker's group tracks hundreds of U.S. citizens and immigrants harmed by Trump administration immigration raids.
Newsweek · 1m
City Council Demands State Ban Flock Cameras
Philadelphia City Council urges state to ban unregulated license plate cameras.
PhillyVoice · 1m
License plate cameras work. Should we trust police with them?
Flock's automatic license plate readers solve crimes but enable surveillance abuse. Regulation might let us have both safety and privacy.
Vox · 4m
Flock cameras abused by cops with zero consequences
Police search millions of surveillance photos with joke justifications, while the system faces hacking and public backlash.
TechRadar · 1m
Chaos Computer Club opens 40C3 to all model citizens
Europe's biggest hacker conference invites creators, artists, and activists to shape its future in December 2026.
CCC Event Blog · 1m
Judge rules DHS violated citizen's free speech rights
A federal judge found that ICE improperly intimidated a New York man for sending a critical email to the agency's director.
Newsweek · 3m
National security means whatever Trump wants
A post-9/11 emergency apparatus never got dismantled, and now it justifies ballrooms, tubas and trans people.
Mother Jones · 1m
DOJ charged 102 protesters with felony assault and won almost nothing
Federal prosecutors swung hard at protesters in four cities, then lost every case that reached a jury.
Chicago Sun-Times · 3m
Border Patrol is reading your bank activity
A secret Border Patrol unit mines Americans' financial data, then hands tips to local cops who invent a reason to pull you over.
Futurism · 1m
Flock’s Vision of Unchecked Mass Surveillance
Flock Safety promises a world without crime, but its nationwide network of license-plate cameras threatens privacy, autonomy, and civil liberties.
The New Yorker · 3m · 5 views