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📍The Lee C. Bollinger Forum, Columbia University
📅 September 9–10
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#FirstAmendment #PressFreedom #WarOnTerror #CivilLiberties #Journalism
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"This designation lacks any real legal weight because U.S. law has no formal domestic terrorist organization category. Creating one risks infringing on First Amendment protected speech. #DomesticTerrorism itself is not a chargeable offense."
https://www.govexec.com/defense/2026/07/trump-directive-reshaped-governments-counterterrorism-approach/414869/
#NSPM7 #USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #civilLiberties #freedomOfSpeech #Trump #Rubio #justice #fascization -
🚨 A 23-year-old Florida woman spent 13 days in jail and seven months under threat of life in prison for a triple-fatal hit-and-run she had nothing to do with.
On Oct 4, 2025, a speeding Dodge Durango caused a chain-reaction pileup on I-4 near DeBary, killing motorcyclist Joaquin Deno and Flagler County Deputy Administrator Jorge Salinas and his wife Nancy. Witnesses said the SUV was black, and a Flock license-plate reader had caught Lindsey Isaacs' black 2025 Durango about 3 miles west of the crash minutes before it happened. FHP seized her car that night and arrested her in April on eight felony counts, including three counts of vehicular homicide.
The case fell apart quickly: her SUV had zero damage, a 911 caller had reported the fleeing SUV was maroon (with the first three digits of its plate), and maroon paint transfer was found on one of the struck cars. Charges were dropped May 22, and Alisa Montalvo, 47, was arrested instead. Her maroon Durango had its driver-side doors replaced and airbags removed or stuffed back in to hide the crash.
The camera did what it was asked; the investigators just stopped looking once it handed them a suspect. Isaacs has since filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against FHP.
Read more:
https://www.wesh.com/article/woman-wrongfully-arrested-in-deadly-i-4-crash-speaks-out-after-charges-dropped/71393304
https://reason.com/2026/08/13/flock-cameras-and-license-plate-readers-are-everywhere-can-we-trust-cops-with-them/
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/05/24/wrong-woman-jailed-in-deadly-i-4-hit-and-run-after-witnesses-misidentified-suv-color-records-show/ -
#CivilLiberties groups Monday asked #SCOTUS to hear their challenge of a #Texas #law requiring that all #PublicSchools’ classrooms display the #TenCommandments, potentially setting up a landmark clash over the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.
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"A Sacramento immigration law firm claims #ICE agents arrived at its office without a warrant, threatened to break in, and targeted the firm based on a list of addresses allegedly linked to undocumented immigrants":
https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-immigration-law-firm-ice-agents/73441433
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Flock cameras, and automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are _inherently_ unlawful, _unavoidably_ contrary to the U.S. Constitution.
Yet another expert's view: youtube.com/shorts/DUQGu...
#USpol #law #CivilLiberties #CivilRights #FourthAmendment #4thAmendment
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Flock cameras, and automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are _inherently_ unlawful, _unavoidably_ contrary to the U.S. Constitution.
Yet another expert's view: https://youtube.com/shorts/DUQGu4l4a2g
#USpol #law #CivilLiberties #CivilRights #FourthAmendment #4thAmendment
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“France's Constitutional Council on Friday, August 14, struck down the ban on social media for children under 15, a flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron's second term, calling the measure "a disproportionate restriction" on freedom of expression.
The Council ruled that Article 1 of a law adopted in July, intended to protect minors from the risks associated with the use of social media, "constitutes a restriction that is not appropriate, necessary or proportionate" to the freedom of expression and communication of under-15s.
While recognizing the "constitutional requirement to protect the best interests of the child," the judges said that such a broad ban "could apply to online communication services for which the risks to the health and safety of minors (...) have not been established."”
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Despite 'New' Updates, Flock's Creepy #Cameras Remain Major #CivilLiberties Threat
In response to Flock’s announcement of operational changes, the #ACLU breaks down why many fall short.
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The US reportedly ran a mass surveillance campaign targeting leftwing and anti-ICE protesters. The key detail worth examining: what legal authorities were invoked, what data was collected, and whether oversight mechanisms flagged anything. Protest activity as an intelligence target raises concrete questions about scope, retention, and proportionality. #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #infosec
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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
ICE wants to spend millions of our taxpayer dollars to equip their agents with these gloves while they carry out violent kidnappings across the country.If this happens ICE, as we’ve continually seen, will ignore the safety precautions. How long until we hear about cardiac deaths related to ICE?
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#Coup #Activism #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #NoKings #elections #50501Movement #WeAreTheResistance #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #FDT #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #protest #organize#ICEgloves #ImmigrationPolicy #HumanRights #PublicSafety #TaxpayerDollars #CivilLiberties #ICEOversight #CardiacSafety #PolicyDebate #KidnappingClaims
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Big Brother Watch warns that people are “watched” by surveillance networks, tracked by devices, and monitored by platforms—often without consent. A UK civil liberties campaign group is fighting to reclaim privacy and defend freedoms. Join the fight: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk #Privacy #CivilLiberties #Surveillance #UK #BigBrotherWatch 🔎📱🛡️
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Indiana residents launch ‘Block Flock’ campaign against Flock Safety cameras.
https://www.21alivenews.com/video/2026/08/10/indiana-residents-launch-block-flock-campaign-against-flock-safety-cameras/ (21AliveNews)
Block Flock Protest: Saturday Aug 15th 2026
#Indiana #Block #Flock #Protest #BlockFlock #Campaign #GrassRootsMovement #Warrantless #MassSurveillance #Rights #CivilLiberties #StopFlock #FortWayne
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Getting the Flock Out of Ord, Nebraska
The county seat of my boyhood summers just voted, five to nothing, to pull its surveillance cameras off the poles, the first town in Nebraska to do it. The reasons cut deeper than the invoice. Ord, Nebraska sits eleven miles up the North Loup River valley from the village of North Loup, where I spent the summers of my boyhood on my grandfather's place, and in the mental geography of a ten-year-old those eleven miles separated the known world from its capital. North Loup had a few hundred souls, a grain elevator, and Popcorn Days. Ord had the Valley County courthouse with a square built around it, implement lots, storefront commerce enough to dazzle a village kid, and a radio station whose call letters spell the valley itself: K-N-L-V, North Loup Valley, on the air at 1060 since 1965 with farm markets in the morning and high school ball at night. When my grandfather's rooftop antenna strained for television it caught one signal, 10/11 out of Lincoln, and that was the extent of the visible world. Ord was "town." You washed up a little before going. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/07/getting-the-flock-out-of-ord-nebraska/
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„The chill of AI-powered mass surveillance will suffocate the very foundations of healthy democratic societies. But we can still choose a different path.“ – Bruce Schneier
#AI #AISurveillance #DigitalRights #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #TechnoAuthoritarianism
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Not all heroes wear capes
Inside the vigilante movement destroying Flock cameras – Stateside with Kai and Carter | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/aug/05/vigilante-movement-flock-cameras-stateside-podcast -
I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
-- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Bullies #CivilLiberties #FreeThought #Libraries
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
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TODAY at 3 p.m. ET, join BINJ's Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas as they interview guest Fatema Ahmad, executive director of the Muslim Justice League, about #Flock Safety Awareness! Check it out on YouTube Live! https://www.youtube.com/live/AJpSDWLJ9GU?si=sMYlxR_XEUhmLStF #civilliberties #democracy #surveillance
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Andy Burnham says Britain’s £1.8bn Digital ID programme is dead. The official record tells a more complicated story.
One Login, GOV.UK Wallet, private verification firms and statutory data-sharing powers remain—alongside Palantir’s expanding NHS and defence footprint.
I traced what was cancelled, and what quietly survived.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/burnham-cancelled-digital-id-britains
#DigitalID #Palantir #Privacy #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #UKPolitics
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That's inevitably what happens when you want to end "illegal" immigration: You turn your country into a Police State where Authoritarianism trumps out Democracy and Civil Rights.
"Davis, the government says, has attended and facilitated meetings about protests and discussed his “anti-authoritarian” ideology with other activists. He is not accused of violent acts, taking any specific actions at protests nor having any encounters with ICE agents.
He is facing six years in prison.
“It’s petty revenge,” Davis said. “They’re trying to portray being part of a community as an illegal conspiratorial act.”
Davis, and other defendants interviewed by the Guardian, are confident that the case against them will collapse. But the government is trying to send a signal, he said: “This isn’t just about us. It’s about trying to scare everybody who opposes ICE.”
Davis is a Buddhist studies scholar at Macalester College in St Paul and has long been part of labor organizing and activism against police violence in the region. When federal agents flooded the Twin Cities in January in a massive effort to round up immigrants, he felt compelled to step up, he said: “It was a federal invasion and terror campaign on our streets. The behavior of these masked thugs was horrific … they were ripping human beings out of families.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/28/ice-protests-antifa-minnesota
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"ABC accused the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday of retaliating against the company because the agency 'dislikes the content and viewpoints expressed' on the network’s programs. ABC called the F.C.C. review an attempt by the administration to chill the free speech rights of media organizations":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/media/abc-fcc-tv-licenses.html
#CivilLiberties #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics -
Investigations| Jul 30 2026
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
by Euan Thomson & David Slater
#Canada #cdnpoli #FreePalestine #encampments #civilliberties
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Expanding counterterrorism frameworks to target direct-action activists is a dangerous misuse of state power. Rebranding political dissent as an existential national security threat damages core democratic freedoms.
Are we underestimating this shift? #CivilLiberties https://www.opendemocracy.net/united-states-far-left-terrorism-protest-activism-direct-action-trump-rubio-argentina/ -
"In charging a man for allegedly typing in a duress password which wiped his privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone, the U.S. government is trying to intimidate other activists from protecting their data and participating in social movements, Samuel Tunick, the man charged, told 404 Media in an interview on Tuesday.
The case of Tunick, who participated in the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, has resonated across privacy and civil liberties circles. 404 Media first broke news of the case in December. Last week, The Guardian reported additional details including from a court hearing in the case. The maximum sentence for the alleged crime is five years in federal prison.
“I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy, and the government hopes to set a precedent that no one has the right to privacy,” Tunick told 404 Media in a conference call with his federal public defender Matthew Dodge."
#USA #FBI #CivilLiberties #Privacy #Activism #GrapheneOS #Surveillance
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‘Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His #GrapheneOS #Phone
#US government has charged #SamuelTunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people”
The case of Tunick, who participated in #StopCopCity movement, has resonated across #privacy and #civilliberties circles
https://www.404media.co/the-government-hopes-to-set-a-precedent-an-interview-with-the-man-charged-for-allegedly-wiping-his-grapheneos-phone/
https://archive.ph/T39kq
