New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency

AP report reveals how the agency uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers

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Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship

Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

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Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell

ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition

A CBP shoulder patch

I’m Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled by Concern Over Anti-Immigrant Uses

Policymakers are beginning to recognize that the boundaries between local surveillance and the Trump Administration are hard to maintain.

Police being grilled on Flock at Austin City Council meeting

Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance

Build it (an authoritarian tracking infrastructure) and they (expanded uses) will come.

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Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”

Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions

License plate readers on back of police car

AI Could Exacerbate Inequality, Experts Warn

At the ACLU’s Civil Rights in the Digital Age AI Summit, leaders convened to evaluate the civil rights landscape of artificial intelligence and tech, and how we can call for policies that center privacy, fairness, and equity.

The panel members of the ACLU CRiDA Summit.

As AI Gains Power, We Must Push for Guardrails to Protect Civil Liberties

As AI increasingly makes decisions in hiring, policing, and social services, the ACLU’s Civil Rights in the Digital Age Summit focuses on promoting responsible AI design to ensure technology protects rights and serves justice for all.

The camera focuses on a sign held by a demonstrator that reads, "REGULATE AI KEEP THE FUTURE HUMAN."

Weekly Highlights June 23 - 27

This week at the ACLU of Maine: The state legislature wraps up its session, SCOTUS hands down major decisions, Maine upholds its strongest-in-the-nation internet privacy laws, and more. 

Weekly highlights