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Jake Laperruque
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Center for Democracy & Technology Deputy Director on Surveillance. I talk about tech, privacy, and surveillance policy: AI, FISA, facial recognition, location tracking, reproductive health privacy (Also cats, movies, cooking and baseball)
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This is a real pitch material from an AI vendor pushing its tool to police and prosecutors, recommending they take a “too long; didn’t read” approach to evidence and investigations.

Does this make you feel safe?
Tranquility policing AI tech ad offering “TL; DR for Investigations”
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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And this Explainer on the convoluted legal landscape of the border search exception:
cdt.org/insights/no-...
Map titled “Judicial Requirements of ‘Forensic Searches’ When Crossing the Border.” Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington are marked in light blue, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Digital Contraband.” Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia are marked in teal, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Ongoing Border-Crimes.” Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island are marked in dark blue, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Border-Crimes.” Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota are marked in orange, denoting “No Suspicion Required.” The remaining states are marked in grey, denoting “No Clear Rule.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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DHS does not need probable cause suspicion to take your phone when you enter the US and fully copy it into its databases. It can then scan through it for any reason, and use AI tools to effortlessly pull up sensitive info

It’s a massive & easily abused loophole for basic 4th Amendment protections
Series of four images from Cellebrite’s description page for its Pathfinder device analytics AI tool. Images promise “Hidden Connections Revealed … Map and visualize relationships between various entities such as people, locations, and events”; “Names Not Numbers … Correlate phone numbers, user IDs, and usernames across platforms to identify specific individuals”; “Meaning Behind Words … Identify topics of interest and patterns in communications across languages, slang, and coded words”; “AI-Powered Media Analysis … AI automatically organizes images and videos, enabling rapid review and advanced search.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Cellebrite’s AI device scanning and analytics tool also lets users build out contact maps across various communications apps, and create detailed maps of individuals movements based on data within a phone. In a tutorial Cellebrite says it lets police be a “fly on the wall” in your life
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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What happens when AI tools are applied to this massive database? The prospects are alarming. For example, tools from Cellebrite (which DHS contracts with) allow users to rapidly scan through photo libraries for certain types of images, such as “Money,” “Tattoos,” “Nudity,” “Drugs,” “Screenshots”
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This response from Google really makes no sense to me.

"We only let government personnel use the app" yeah, the whole complaint is that your helping cops use a sketchy facial recogition app to detain people (while also blocking off basic police oversight/accountability tools)
Article text: A Google spokesperson told 404 Media in an email “This app is only usable with an official government login and does not publicly broadcast specific user data or location. Play has robust policies and when we find a violation, we take action.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Axon wants police to push a button and let AI write police reports and create the formal written record of officer encounters and use of force incidents.

Does this make you feel safe?
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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This bit from Ars Trchnica seems to be the most important takeaway: The trillion dollar possibility will get lots of attention, but it’s also based on bold long term goals. Musk can be a replacement level CEO and still reap obscene rewards.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Text from article noting Musk could collect $50B by hitting lower tier goals that don’t require dramatically improving Tesla
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Closing slide of a tech policy presentation from literally two hours ago. The Butlarian Jihad art/merch must flow!
BUTLARIAN JIHAD NOW!
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Smart takedown by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social on Meta claim that it's smart glasses are no different than a phone:
It's not just that recording with these glasses is (obviously) more inconspicuous, Meta's made central design and selling point that they're inconspicuous!

Have cake, eat it too.
Article text: "In fact, the entire motivation for building these glasses is that they are discreet and seamlessly integrate into your life. The point of putting a camera in the glasses is that it eliminates the need to take an iPhone out of your pocket. People working in the augmented reality and virtual reality space have talked about this for decades. In Meta’s own promotional video for the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, titled “10 years in the making,” the company shows Mark Zuckerberg on stage in 2016 saying that “over the next 10 years, the form factor is just going to keep getting smaller and smaller until, and eventually we’re going to have what looks like normal looking glasses.” And in 2020, “you see something awesome and you want to be able to share it without taking out your phone.” Meta's Ray-Ban glasses have not achieved their final form, but one thing that makes them different from Google Glass is that they are designed to look exactly like an iconic pair of glasses that people immediately recognize. People will probably notice the camera in the glasses, but they have been specifically designed to look like "normal” glasses."
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Text of First Amendment, edited to protect freedom of non-hyperbolic speech
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Guillotin was lucky he didn't get guillotin-ed
"Towards the end of the Reign of Terror, a letter from the Comte de Méré to Guillotin fell into the hands of the public prosecutor, Fouquier-Tinville in which the Count, who was to be executed, commended his wife and children to Guillotin's care. The authorities demanded Guillotin inform them of the whereabouts of the Count's wife and children. As Guillotin either would not or could not give the information, he was arrested and imprisoned. He was freed from prison in the general amnesty of 9 Thermidor (27 July) 1794 after Robespierre fell from power."
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Treating facial recognition as a definitive ID is at odds with virtually every law enforcement agency in America that has policies & procedures for using the tech.
Don't treat a match as a defintive ID is perhaps the most basic rule of the tech, including by DHS. These actions violate agency rules:
Text from DHS policy rules on use of facial recognition: FR technologies used for identification may not be used as the sole basis for law or civil enforcement related actions, especially when used asinvestigative leads. Any potential matches or results from the use of FR technology for identification are manually reviewed by human face examiners prior to any law or civil enforcement action.
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"Nearly half of ICE recruits failing open book written exam on constitutional and legal requirements for conducting stops, searches, and seizures:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Article text: Nearly half of new recruits who’ve arrived for training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center over the past three months were later sent home because they couldn’t pass the written exam, according to the data. The academic requirement includes an exam in which officers are allowed to consult their textbooks and notes at the end of a legal course on the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fourth Amendment, which outlines when officers can and can’t conduct searches and seizures.
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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😬
Article text: How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod? People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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An interesting (and frustrating) contrast: Even as California continues to be an ever-active national leader on consumer privacy, it's fallen behind other states on surveillance issues such as facial recognition:
www.techpolicy.press/status-of-st...
Image shows a map of state facial recognition laws across the US in 2024. Light blue denotes 2 states — New Hampshire and Oregon — that ban use of facial recognition in combination with police body cameras. Medium blue denotes 6 states — Alabama, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont — that have a stronger limit than the body camera law on police use of facial recognition (such as a warrant requirement, notice requirement, or serious crime limit). Dark blue denotes 7 states — Colorado, Maryland, Maine, Montana, Utah, Virginia, Washington — that have that have multiple stronger limits on police use of facial recognition.
October 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Rules for warrantless border searches of electronic devices have become complex and convoluted - you can @cdt.org analysis if you want to see the full legal landscape of what rules apply at each airport across the country:
cdt.org/insights/no-...
Map titled “Judicial Requirements of ‘Forensic Searches’ When Crossing the Border.” Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington are marked in light blue, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Digital Contraband.” Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia are marked in teal, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Ongoing Border-Crimes.” Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island are marked in dark blue, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Border-Crimes.” Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota are marked in orange, denoting “No Suspicion Required.” The remaining states are marked in grey, denoting “No Clear Rule.”
October 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Section 230 is a liability shield for hosting third party content online - there's potentially an argument AI chatbots are covered, but I think it would be very tough, common view (even from Altman) is that the company's chatbot is speech from the company

www.semafor.com/article/08/2...
Article text: The big question for OpenAI is whether it will attempt to use Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a defense — which shields platforms from culpability for what users post on them. That framework, however, has been challenged in the AI age, because it’s those companies’ servers providing messages through their chatbots, rather than external users. CEO Sam Altman has previously said AI companies shouldn’t be relying on that defense. When asked if that law applies to OpenAI’s product in a Senate hearing in 2023, he responded, “I don’t think Section 230 is even the right framework.”
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"New lists! New lists!"
October 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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COMMUNISM WAS JUST A RED HERRING!
Clue
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The full written rules for use of body cameras by DHS personnel is available here:
www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

Meta's glasses squarely within the policy definition of body cameras
Text from DHS policy: "Body Worn Camera: Audio/video/digital recording equipment combined into a single unit and typically worn on clothing or otherwise secured to a person, e.g., affixed to the outside of the carrier/tactical vest facing forward"
September 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Is it surprising that the focus group designed to exclusively be dissatisfied Trump voters included lots of dissatisfied Trump voters?
Text from article: "While the participants in this focus group were selected on the basis of their unfavorable views of Trump’s job performance, there were echoes of another exclusive focus group I wrote about a few months ago in which half of the participants, Latino men from Arizona who had voted for Trump, regretted their vote."
September 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Couple months ago this guy did an interview containing one of the more wild and self-revealing things I've heard from the set of rich AI-utopian tech bros:
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Text from Bryan Johnson Wired interview: If there was a world where, let’s say in five years, you could upload Bryan into an AI—and AI Bryan is pretty much as good as Bryan Bryan—does Bryan Bryan eat the cheeseburger? Let’s think about your question in a different way. Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth; and the time they’re not spending pursuing wealth, they’re pursuing some sort of status or prestige. When you give birth to superintelligence, you can start extending lifespans to some unknown horizon: 200 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years. Millions of years. We don’t know. When that happens, the entire game of humanity shifts from that singular focus on wealth accumulation and status and prestige to existence. Now, embedded in existence, we may still play games of power, but it will be conditioned that existence itself is the highest virtue. That’s the shift that’s starting to happen right now.
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Also, interestingly it seems like this set of rules isn't followed for some of the most famous instances of murder that didn't result in a conviction:
Wikipedia article titled "Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman"
September 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM