jonathanwestmoreland.com https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Oregon’s Privacy Leadership Needs Enforceable Authority Texas and New York Show Why “Age Verification” Is Too Broad a Label Axon Watch: Lead Lock Changes How Agencies Search Evidence Oregon Watch: Obsolete Corrections IT Could Fail Where Safety Depends on It More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Were Targeted Federal Funding Preferences Can Change What Local Police Are Asked to Do (DOJ COPS Grants) A Surveillance Drone Should Not Become a Weapons Platform by Administrative Approval (New Orleans) Flock FreeForm Changes What an ALPR Network Is Axon Watch: July 31 Transition Brings AI Oversight Questions Active Exploitation Turns Maintenance Into an Emergency (CISA SharePoint Alert) San Francisco Shows the Risk of Weak Sharing Controls (SFPD Drone Video Leak) Redmond Adds Drones and Fleet Cameras to an Existing Axon Surveillance Ecosystem Rights on Paper Still Fail at the Doorway (Data Broker Compliance Studies) New Jersey Moves Upstream on Data Brokers (A5328 / P.L. 2026, c.25) Clearview Settlement Fails on Who Represented the Class LAPD Lets Its Flock Agreement Expire While Negotiating Stronger Terms Flock’s Trust Problem Is Now a Governance Problem (ACLU Credibility Report) Treat Messaging-App Recovery Keys Like Master Passwords (FBI Alert) The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online (EFF) The KIDS Act Clears the House \u2014 With Age Checks Still the Privacy Fault Line Woodburn’s Experience Shows Why Sharing Architecture Must Be Understood Before Deployment Facial Recognition Cannot Remain Invisible When It Helps Identify a Defendant (State v. Miles) Make Privacy Rights Operational (Vermont S.71 / Act 145) Patch the System \u2014 and Invalidate What Attackers May Already Have Stolen (Splunk/Fortinet) Outsourcing a Public Service Does Not Outsource Responsibility for the Data (Texas Parks and Wildlife Breach) Write the Warrant Rule, Audit Access, and Termination Right Into the Contract (Shaker Heights, OH) Madison Square Garden Reportedly Cataloged Critics of Facial Recognition An Age Estimate Can Become a Legal Decision (UK Facial-Age Estimation for Asylum Seekers) 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) Privacy, surveillance accountability, and civil liberties in Central Oregon