Matt Cagle
@Matt_Cagle
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Attorney focused on surveillance and privacy @ACLU_NorCal. These tweets are my views.
Oakland, CA
Joined June 2009
We’re gonna keep fighting surveillance even if Twitter disappears:
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RT @matthew_d_green: Lots of folks are commenting on the fact that Meta is cozying up to the current administration, cutting out fact check…
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RT @RepRashida: No excuses. Every single one of my Democratic colleagues should be voting against this bill that gives Trump and his incomi…
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RT @TimothyDSnyder: Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny"
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Police surveillance tech triggers a vehicle pursuit across two cities that ends with four people hospitalized and multiple cars damaged. Surveillance will make us safer, they say.
A license plate scanner hit in Berkeley alerted BPD to a stolen car. BPD officer chased the car into Oakland where the pursuit ended in a crash.
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What Big Tech learned from Big Tobacco: (1) Push bad bills in states (2) Point to the "patchwork" the bills created (3) Use preemption to prevent better state laws read @snowjake on why this is a huge drag🚬:
I wrote in @techpolicypress about the tech industry's Tobacco-style campaign to undermine privacy and stop states from passing stronger laws. We know that Big Tech wants to sabotage privacy law. But look at whose footsteps they're following. 🧵 1/
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Littering Oakland communities with ineffective microphones is not making a meaningful dent in public safety and distracts money and attention from real solutions. Oakland should listen to @APTPaction and community groups and shutter its broken ShotSpotter program.
I'll be covering the Public Safety Committee meeting where the CMs will consider renewing the Shotspotter contract tonight from the @Oak_Observer . Here's my coverage of the PAC's analysis that found it of questionable effectiveness and rec'd ditching it.
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RT @AASchapiro: Important new FOIA lawsuit from @ConMijente & @JustFuturesLaw, trying to force DHS to disclose documents about use of AI in…
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RT @joeyneverjoe: They live on a different sidewalk. Worse off than before. They don’t just disappear.
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It’s all fun and games until the cops demand you turn over anything your fun music surveillance device incidentally recorded on the street
"Bop Spotter" listens in for what music people are listening to on one block in San Francisco @AVPapachristos
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As face recognition-fueled wrongful arrests illustrate, once this tech IDs someone, accurately or not, it can taint the subsequent police investigation and the basis for charges. This is just one reason that people deserve to know if cops used it in their case. Learn more⬇️
Phenomenal reporting in @washingtonpost shows an epidemic of police hiding their use of face recognition technology from people accused of crimes and their defense attorneys. (1/x)
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RT @NateWessler: Phenomenal reporting in @washingtonpost shows an epidemic of police hiding their use of face recognition technology from p…
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RT @ruha9: Princeton chose not to include my responses to their Qs about the #MacFellow award in this announcement—What it was like when I…
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RT @ACLU_NorCal: We filed a preliminary injunction against UC Santa Cruz to stop unconstitutional campus bans of students and faculty witho…
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Oakland's cameras aren't effectively stopping people from dumping trash. Instead of wasting $ on surveillance, the City should follow the lead of my neighbors who are putting up flowers, benches, and libraries to create spaces that invite people, not junk.
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RT @PeterBeinart: You know what actual populism looks like? It's not demonizing immigrants. It's this: Using government to protect ordinary…
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RT @william_fitz: Five years ago Microsoft workers protested the company developing military defense googles. Today Microsoft doubled down…
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In 7 weeks, Donald Trump may win the presidency, and if he does, SF's expanding network will be a perfect target for an admin carrying out Project 2025 and seeking info about people protesting, seeking medical care, and going about their private lives.
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Take it from Oracle, a company that just agreed to pay $100+ million to settle a suit alleging it had violated the privacy of hundreds of millions of people by collecting and sharing their personal information without consent.
Oracle's Larry Ellison says a surveillance system of police body cams, cameras on cars and autonomous drones, all monitored by AI, will constantly record and report on police and citizens, leading everyone to be on their best behavior
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RT @ACLU_NorCal: BREAKING! We’ve just released our new Know Your Rights guide and video on Free Speech, Protests & Demonstrations. Find out…
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RT @Matt_Cagle: We should be asking difficult questions about why the first prominent state-level deployments of genAI are aiming to scruti…
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