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The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of US drivers in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The surveillance has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested.

Federal and internal documents reveal a $3.3 million geofencing contract awarded to Show Faith by Works LLC. The campaign maps the physical boundaries of churches and Christian colleges. Attendees’ mobile devices are then targeted with pro-Israel ads.

“We see the government throwing more and more of our taxpayer money at this idea that they can somehow collect and organize everything that they know about us and only use it for good...I think we ought to be very skeptical of this" -@eff 's Cindy Cohn.

The 80 fusion centers across the US work with the military, private sector, and others to collect data on US citizens in a stated effort to prevent terrorism. However, The Intercept found that fusion centers helped monitor pro-Palestine demonstrations.

Civil rights attorneys are suing the Trump administration to force the release of records detailing whether federal immigration agencies are using sophisticated Israeli spyware to track, monitor, and target immigrants and activists across the country.

CISA abandoned an Election Day situation room it had operated for years to share vital intelligence on physical and cyber threats with state and local authorities. This follows the dismantling of CISA's agency’s election security team earlier this year.

Youtube deleted 700 videos from Palestinian human rights groups documenting alleged human rights abuses, and said it deleted the videos because of US State Dept sanctions on the groups for working with the ICC in cases charging Israelis of war crimes.

Technology is making it easier to spy on people, block free speech, and control what we do. Join activists, lawyers, and technologists from @eff who are fighting back.

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Librarians told 404 Media that library AI like CLCD is just the start; they are beset with pitches for AI library tech and catalogs flooded with AI slop books. AI maximalism is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, workers, and academics. https://t.co/CxcrY82O2W

With a transition team that includes former Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, a strong opponent of Big Tech monopolies, Mayor-elect of NYC Zohran Mamdani has the opportunity to show how technology can serves the people.

An AI gun detection system at a Baltimore county school mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed. The police held him at gunpoint, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing.

The SEC has opened an investigation into AppLovin Corporation’s data-collection practices, centering on allegations that AppLovin systematically violated platform partners’ service agreements to extract user identifiers for targeted advertising. https://t.co/mTE0WbVI0x

Many thanks to our members for the support that makes our digital privacy mission possible! You inspire and inform the ways we continue to build privacy tools, education, and community engagement. #PrivacyByDesign

The anonymity granted by the internet is a lifeline for many trans people. What happens when that privacy disappears?

We tested four popular hotspot devices with the Calyx Sprout BYOD SIM card, and here is our testing result on network performances across these devices. Tests came from three states to gain more insights. Want to share your test results? Let us know! https://t.co/ePlnySedWK

A new startup called Doublespeed is building a service that allows clients to “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.”

An investigation into First Wap, a surveillance company that aims to provide sophisticated phone-tracking software capable of pinpointing any person in the world, reveals one of the most complete pictures to date of the modern surveillance industry.