jonathanwestmoreland.com https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos as New Update Goes Live Government AI Is Combining With the Data Broker Loophole to Bypass Warrant Requirements DHS Is Building Smart Glasses for Real-Time Biometric Identification on American Streets Border Surveillance Systems Keep Getting Bigger and More Integrated (Seguritech/Torre Centinela) Republicans Are Preparing Another National Privacy-Law Push The Parents Decide Act Would Push Age Verification Down to the Operating-System Level Europe’s Age-Verification App Is Testing the Promise of Privacy-Preserving ID Monroe County Requires Disclosure of Sheriff Surveillance-Tech Purchases Maryland Moves Against Surveillance Pricing (HB0895) Meta’s Smart-Glasses Fight Is Really a Fight About Ambient Facial Recognition Google Promised Notice. ICE Got the Data Anyway. Opting Out May Not Actually Stop the Tracking Mobile Fortify Brings Field Identification Closer to Real Time Inside ICE’s $12 Million Plan to Map Immigrants’ Patterns of Life (Project SAFE HAVEN) San Jose’s Camera Network Is Becoming a Constitutional Test Case Section 702 Survives for Now, But the Real Fight Is Not Over Free Surveillance Tech Still Comes at a High and Dangerous Cost Treat Home and Small-Office Routers Like Real Security Devices — FBI/IC3 CISA Advisory: Iranian-Affiliated Actors Targeting Internet-Connected PLCs Oakland County’s Flock Drone Pilot Points Toward the Next Surveillance Layer OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for Catastrophic Model Harms Richmond’s Flock Records Show Officials Thinking About Liability and Narrative at the Same Time Deleted Signal Messages Were Still Recoverable Through iPhone Notifications Nevada Quietly Signs Up for Fog Location Tracking We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702 Wyden Statement on Revelation of Major Compliance Problems with FISA Section 702 Surveillance Section 702 Faces Renewed Pressure Despite Major Compliance Concerns California Opens a Fusion Center Audit ICE Confirms Use of Graphite Spyware Federal Personnel Agency Seeks Broad Access to Workers’ Medical Records Microsoft Says North Korean Hackers Behind Malicious npm Packages Treat Dependencies Like Infrastructure, Not Convenience (Axios Supply-Chain Compromise) Ask Vendors Where AI Is Making Decisions for Them (Microsoft Copilot Disclaimer) The Business of Military AI — Brennan Center Government “Modernization” Can Also Mean Stronger Hidden Triage Systems (Palantir-IRS Contract) Turkey Says Users Will Need National ID Numbers to Access Social Media Within 3 Months Malaysia’s Age Verification Rules for Social Media Could Be World’s Strictest Apple Continues to Roll Out Age Verification Around the World Child-Safety Rules Can Become Company-Shaped Identity Rules (OpenAI Kids Safety Coalition) OkCupid Settles After Selling 3 Million Photos to a Facial Recognition Company Facial Recognition Gone Wrong “Wild West”: AI Watchdogs Say Facial Recognition Policing Errors Are Rising “Incognito” Privacy Claims Keep Running Ahead of Reality (Perplexity Lawsuit) LinkedIn Is Scanning Browsers Far More Aggressively Than Most Users Would Expect FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center FBI FY 2027 Budget Request (Joint Mission Center) Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence (NSPM-7) ICE’s Data Power Does Not Stop With Government Databases Section 702’s Defenders Are Asking for Trust While Oversight Gets Weaker Privacy, surveillance accountability, and civil liberties in Central Oregon