BREAKING NEWS: A judge this morning allowed the lawsuit by @aclusocal.bsky.social & Walkup Melodia against the UC Regents on behalf of Palestine solidarity activists from UCLA (2 students and 2 faculty members) to proceed, marking an important preliminary victory for student speech on CA campuses.
A whistleblower has revealed that DOGE staffers uploaded millions of Americans' Social Security information to an unauthorized server.
The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.
The UK's forays in age verification underscore that it its not only ineffective, but violates our privacy and keeps teens and adults from online life, blocking social media, online videos, streaming, and even gaming. www.theverge.com/analysis/715...
EPIC Law Fellow @kara-williams.bsky.social, Grace Gedye of Consumer Reports, and @cvenzke.bsky.social of the ACLU attended ACM’s FAccT conference to present a tutorial on the landscape of U.S. state AI policy and stakeholders. @facct.bsky.social
Correction: Murk did vote aye, but Lummis remains one unvoted
Over two hours later this is still true. www.politico.com/live-updates...
HIGH DRAMA IN THE SENATE.
There are 50 no votes on proceeding to reconciliation. Murkowski, Rick Scott, Mike Lee have not voted. One more no vote stalls the bill.
Collins voted aye.
Tillis, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul have voted no.
The Senate is moving to include a 10-year ban on states regulating AI in its federal spending bill — opening the door for AI harms in employment, credit, and housing. Tell them it has to go: action.aclu.org/send-message...
Previously, if someone else sued to strike down a law and won, that law would no longer apply to you. That changed today: their win only applies to them.
The idea that your guaranteed constitutional rights only exist if you have the personal resources to have a lawyer enforce them is terrifying.
The welcome event and first keynote are getting started! 🎉🦉
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
Untested AI can lead to real harms for individuals, and yet Congress is considering on ban on state regulation of AI. Tell Congress to pull the "AI moratorium" from the reconciliation package: action.aclu.org/send-message...
Trump and DOGE are already weaponizing Americans' most personal information to target groups and individuals that they don't like. Apparently airlines are helping them do it. My team and I have already contacted these airlines to get answers and will keep you updated.
Screenshot of amendment to strike the AI regulation ban provision.
Republicans are still pursuing their unacceptable plan to block states from regulating AI. I’m ready to fight with every tool I have.
I will be filing an amendment to strip this provision from their "Big Beautiful Bill". Republicans better be prepared to vote on it.
There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move.
www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n
Rep. @frankpallone.govpeeps.us outlines why the House's efforts to torpedo state regulations of AI are so harmful: it will pave the way for AI to be used to decide who gets a loan, gets into schools, or gets a job with zero safeguards.
www.youtube.com/live/_2DKqtr...
This decision striking down President Trump's unconstitutional executive order reaffirms that our judicial system exists to protect our rights, not carry out his agenda.
With our right to legal representation under attack, Perkins Coie fought back and won.
Some of the big points:
Signal has not been compromised. We know what the Pentagon concern was and it was very badly framed.
That doesn't mean planning Houthi strikes on it was operationally secure
Tech that keeps you from messaging someone you tell a messenger to message is not a thing.
There's a lot of confusion about Signal right now, so I wrote about what it's extremely good at, what it isn't designed to protect you from, and how it's different from the systems one is supposed to plan US military operations with:
I’ve been thinking a lot about this — I’m afraid that encrypted services (of which Signal is the best) is getting thrown under the bus as folks rush to simplify why the use of Signal was so problematic here
It's really crucial to understand how badly framed this is. There is no Signal vulnerability. The Pentagon email did a bad job explaining a Google report from a month ago and NPR repeated it.
This is like saying because you got a phishing email at your Gmail address, there's a Google vulnerability.
Oh boy. Seems like the democrats should have heeded our warnings for all those years civil libertarians warned democrats about abuse of power in the name of “fighting terrorism”
Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE:
www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...
