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Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals

As the ACLU fights to protect people’s privacy, playwright Matthew Libby discusses his play about the private companies fueling the government’s surveillance of immigrants.

Despite talk of "drones for good" from boosters, we're seeing a new, darker law enforcement “use case” for the technology

Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected

CEO attacks motives of people who care about privacy, says they are trying to “normalize lawlessness” and “let murderers go free”

“The pilots were well aware of which lever to pull. It was ‘human error’ that caused the mistake. But laying the blame on the pilots wasn’t ever going to solve the problem.”

We’re filing a FOIA to find out how deep the problem goes

The company’s default agreement with police departments grants the company license to share people’s license plate data

A digital ID system involves value-laden choices that should be made through explicit political discussion and debate