Center for Democracy & Technology Deputy Director on Surveillance, privacy and 4th Amendment expert
Focused on tech, privacy, and surveillance: AI, FISA, facial recognition, location tracking, drones (Also cooking, movies, and baseball)
Jake Laperruque
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meta last week: how dare u mention this totally innocuous code in our smart glasses app that is not even activated yet u are making a big deal about absolutely nothing we have nothing to hide
meta this week: wat code
Department of Justice, in response to Cato Institute FOIA suit for materials on compliance problems and misuse of FISA 702, says it has 39,650 responsive documents and will provide them just a little over THIRTEEN YEARS
The pressure is on to open the Strait of Hormuz.
This is from Dow’s presentation at today's Wells Fargo conference.
(via Vital Knowledge) $DOW
BREAKING: Trump's lawyers in his BBC suit just told the court they didn't file their response to the BBC's motion to dismiss on June 5 when it was due b/c the protective order and the court's sealing rules were too complicated for them. But, they say they did get it to the BBC's lawyers on June 5.
"More than a million investors whose net losses totaled $2.3 billion."
So that's around $2,000 a person.
In other words, the Trumps fleeced a lot of small-fry supporters. Most of whom will still support them the next time around.
CDT’s Jake Laperruque writes in Tech Policy Press that lawmakers should reject FISA 702 fearmongering and focus on meaningful surveillance reforms. The claim that a lapse would immediately halt intelligence collection doesn’t hold up.
Election denialism: Now brought to you by vibes
Perhaps most egregiously: In their letter Cotton and Grassley claim they reached "agreement with our Democrat counterparts" on their bill to extend FISA 702 for 3 years
In reality, Grassley's Judiciacy Cmte counterpart, Senator Durbin, was not involved in negotiation and strongly opposes the bill 🙃
This reads like a news excerpt from Kristallnacht
My latest piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, debunking the false claims & fear-mongering in a letter from Intelligence and Judiciary Cmte. Chairs Cotton and Grassley:
FISA 702 collection doesn't stop if sunset happens, and there is broad bipartisan opposition to simply continuing the status quo
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Jake Laperruque argues that lawmakers should reject fearmongering over a FISA 702 lapse and allow votes on bipartisan reforms to curb surveillance abuses.
Last week, researchers identified code in Meta AI's smart glasses app that could convert faces into unique biometric signatures to identify strangers in public. Just as quietly as they embedded this code, the app’s 6/5 update appears to have quietly removed them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Jake Laperruque
Center for Democracy & Technology
Jake Laperruque argues that lawmakers should reject fearmongering over a FISA 702 lapse and allow votes on bipartisan reforms to curb surveillance abuses.
Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to
President Trump's crypto ventures have been a jackpot for his family, which has raked in about $2.3 billion in profits since he took office, a Reuters analysis found.
And it's been a very bad bet for people who bought his crypto. They've lost more than $2 billion.
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My latest piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, debunking the false claims & fear-mongering in a letter from Intelligence and Judiciary Cmte. Chairs Cotton and Grassley:
FISA 702 collection doesn't stop if sunset happens, and there is broad bipartisan opposition to simply continuing the status quo
RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged?
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
NEW: Trump missed his deadline to respond to a Motion to Dismiss filed by the BBC in his defamation case against the outlet, and the court is considering hearing the MTD as unopposed and sanctioning his legal team.
Jake Laperruque argues that lawmakers should reject fearmongering over a FISA 702 lapse and allow votes on bipartisan reforms to curb surveillance abuses.
