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"Calling Flock a ‘weapon of mass inspection,’ Wyden backs Oregon ban effort" https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/10/calling-flock-a-weapon-of-mass-inspection-wyden-backs-oregon-ban-effort.html?gift=13549e14-d950-48d7-8d64-1effc9d3b63f "A bipartisan effort in the Oregon Legislature to ban Flock cameras and similar devices statewide has received support from Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union." #Oregon #Flock #Surveillance #Cameras #Privacy #Wyden #ACLU

Folks, I'm still here. I have had less to say or share because the news has been generally overwhelming, and I have been recentering my focus (slowly but surely) on the good that remains. Kinda like looking up into the heavens at night, I realized I could suddenly see many tiny points of light amid the darkness. To that end, here's my update, my Three Good Things. 1) I've volunteered to work with the ACLU, both as a poll monitor in a different city for midterm elections, and also "as needed" for other future concerns. Training is planned. 2) My local branches of Indivisible are also gearing up for midtems, and are actively recruiting poll monitors for training to address the many possibilities, good and bad. I am considering attending this training as well, as it's closer to home, and poll monitors are needed badly here too. 3) My full-time job continues at a popular national thrift store chain that makes every effort to reduce carbon emissions, employee the health-challenged and those with recent prior prison records, and keep used clothing / furniture / household goods out of the landfills while giving back to the local community with inexpensive or free job training available to everyone. And an extra today: 4) Community college classes start again for fall semester in mid-October. I'm registered for two in-person classes, plus one that is entirely online. #threegoodthings #3goodthings#CommunityCollege #midterms2026 #pollmonitoring#aclu #indivisible #northcarolina#perseverance #survivingintheshadows #survivingtheabyss

Get #Flock Cameras Out of Your Community: Learn how to fight the proliferation of Flock Safety cameras and other automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in your city. Get facts, sample letters, and advocacy tools from the #ACLU of Northern #California#ALPR

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets The online toolkit for criminal defense attorneys is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judge, will force prosecutors to reveal whether surveillance technology was used against a defendant. #ACLU #legal #flocksecurity #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

The #FourthCircuit Says #Border Agents Can #Search Your #Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which @eff@mastodon.social filed an amicus brief, alongside the national #ACLU, its #Maryland , #NorthCarolina , #SouthCarolina , and #Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (#NACDL ). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a #warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of whether an officer searches by hand or with #forensic software that plugs into a device and downloads its entire contents for search, the same #FourthAmendment standard should apply to all device searches at the border. #privacy

The #ACLU Is Arming #Lawyers to Expose State #Surveillance #Secrets A new toolkit for #attorneys in #Massachusetts targets the technologies #police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports. #ai #facialrecognition #security

How to Fight Deployment of #Flock and Other Mass #Surveillance License Plate Readers in Your Community The #ACLU provides a range of tactics for communities to stop or limit the use of Flock’s #ALPR mass #surveillance technology #privacy