Machine Surveillance is Being Super-Charged by Large AI Models

Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.

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Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond

You shouldn't participate in face recognition ticketing schemes.

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DHS Focus on "Soft Targets" Risks Out-of-Control Surveillance

AI surveillance of public places risks subjecting everyday spaces to airport-level security that heightens the risk of discrimination.

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How Trump's Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms

A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First Amendment freedoms, surveil Americans and undermine democracy.

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My Family Business Depends on Digital Ads. And I Support Legislation to Protect Mainers' Privacy from Big Tech.

Our family business has thrived by building trusting relationships with customers, not because we exploit their most personal information to get ahead.

Stop big tech from spying on Maine. Support LD 1977.

I'm a Tech Founder. You Can Trust Me When I Tell You Maine Needs Privacy Laws.

I am passionate about using technology to improve our lives, and I am equally passionate about protecting the civil liberties that let us live freely. Technology and privacy can coexist, and if our democracy is to survive, they must.

By Robert T. Kelley

Stop big tech from spying on Maine. Support LD 1977.

How to Protect Consumer Privacy and Free Speech

Consumer privacy laws should strengthen free speech protections online, and vice versa. Here’s how it can be done.

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An Open Letter to Portland City Council on Facial Recognition

Face surveillance technology poses unprecedented threats to civil rights, civil liberties, and open, democratic society. We wrote in to express strong support for the proposed prohibition on face surveillance sponsored by Councilor Ali.

By Michael Kebede

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Don’t believe the corporate interests. Maine really does need an ISP privacy bill.

Internet service providers (ISPs) have access to some of your most personal information like every website you visit, the times you log into and out of your accounts, and even some location data. And, because the federal government has failed to put privacy protections in place, ISPs can sell that private information to third parties, like advertisers, without your permission.

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