jonathanwestmoreland.com https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Supreme Court Docket: Texas’s App Store Accountability Act Age Verification Is Advancing Through Both Legislation and Litigation (Revised KIDS Act Text) Kansas City Plans to Turn Bus Cameras Into Live Identity Searches Eugene Is Moving From One Surveillance Dispute to a Citywide Governance System When Direct Government Access Is Blocked, Agencies May Buy the Data Instead Federal Databases Became a Voter-Screening System \u2014 And a Court Said the Government Skipped the Rules Petition Filed to Increase Transparency and Control Over Data Centers in La Pine Surveillance Pricing Is Becoming a Consumer-Protection Issue Axon Watch: Police-Tech Contracts Are Becoming Platform Commitments Security Features Should Not Disappear Quietly (AMD Strips Memory Encryption) AI Support Bots Should Not Control the Keys (Meta AI/Instagram Hijacking) AI Chats Can Become Legal Records (Judge Blocks Subpoena for ChatGPT Records) Lawful-Access Bills Can Become Encryption-Access Bills (Canada’s Bill C-22) Age Checks Are Becoming Identity Infrastructure (France, UK, US House) Phone Numbers May Become Identity Checkpoints (FCC “Know Your Customer” Proposal) Patch Windows Are Shrinking Because Exploitation Is Getting Faster Private Cameras Can Still Become Public Surveillance Systems (Retail ALPR) Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People Section 702 Expired on Paper, But the Warrant Fight Did Not Before AI Touches Public Systems, Set the Purpose Limits (EFF Congressional Testimony) Public-Safety Grants Need Technology and Data Guardrails (DOJ’s Model Cities Initiative) Treat School Platforms as Civic Infrastructure (Federal Student Aid Canvas Alert) Hackers Are Trying to Steal Signal Users’ Backups in a New Wave of Phishing Attacks Patch What Attackers Are Already Exploiting — CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog Data-Center Opposition Is Becoming a Surveillance Issue Public Memory Is Becoming Harder to Preserve Sanctuary Policy Only Works if Data Channels Cannot Route Around It (ICE’s Ad-Tech RFI) Campus Safety Systems Are Becoming Campus Surveillance Systems (SDSU) AI Developer Tools Are Becoming Supply-Chain Targets Meta Smart Glasses and Ring Show Facial Recognition Moving Into Ordinary Devices 1000 Data Breaches Later: The Disclosure Lag Is Worse Than Ever Metadata Is Sensitive Data — Supreme Court Sides With FCC on Carrier Fines Section 702 Is Now a Warrant Fight and a Governance Fight Troy License Plate Cameras Stay On With New 60-Day Privacy Rules Drone-First-Responder Programs Are Becoming Routine Infrastructure Axon Watch: Release Notes Are Part of the Oversight Record Age Verification Is a Privacy Nightmare DOJ Wants to Know Who on Reddit and X Is Criticizing ICE’s Tactics Commercial Location Data Is a National-Security Problem More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification and Background Checks ALPR Oversight Reached Congress, But the First Sweeping Restriction Failed Signals & Safeguards Issue 18: Flock’s FreeForm Search, New Orleans’ Weaponized-Drone Draft, and Federal Grants as Policy Instruments Judge Privacy Bills by What They Prevent, Not What They Promise (The Secure Data Act) Treat Movement and Biometric Data as High-Risk (NYC Health + Hospitals Breach) Make Warrants and Notice Real (The NDO Fairness Act, H.R. 6048) Microsoft Patches 138 Vulnerabilities, While a CISA Contractor Leaks AWS Keys on GitHub Data-Center Infrastructure Is Becoming a Local Consent Fight (La Pine, OR / BoxMiner) General Motors Settles Over Selling Drivers’ Location Data Connecticut Restricts Police ALPR Sharing, But Not Retailers Privacy, surveillance accountability, and civil liberties in Central Oregon