Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
@profferguson.bsky.social
Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
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@nilsgilman.bsky.social
Interesting piece about a legal privilege for AI communications. In my forthcoming book, I propose a broader legal privilege for digital communications (not just AI).
Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Interesting piece about a legal privilege for AI communications. In my forthcoming book, I propose a broader legal privilege for digital communications (not just AI).
Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot?
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
@nilsgilman.bsky.social
Interesting piece about a legal privilege for AI communications. In my forthcoming book, I propose a broader legal privilege for digital communications (not just AI).
Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Interesting piece about a legal privilege for AI communications. In my forthcoming book, I propose a broader legal privilege for digital communications (not just AI).
Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Anyone know if this is true? 75 years seems pretty long for any evidence retention.
“DHS requires evidentiary data to be held for 75 years, potentially evidentiary data for three years and non-evidentiary data for 180 days.”
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“DHS requires evidentiary data to be held for 75 years, potentially evidentiary data for three years and non-evidentiary data for 180 days.”
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November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Anyone know if this is true? 75 years seems pretty long for any evidence retention.
“DHS requires evidentiary data to be held for 75 years, potentially evidentiary data for three years and non-evidentiary data for 180 days.”
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“DHS requires evidentiary data to be held for 75 years, potentially evidentiary data for three years and non-evidentiary data for 180 days.”
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Great piece from @awinston.bsky.social: "One area where Mamdani is guaranteed to clash with Tisch is on the NYPD’s massive technical surveillance apparatus and intelligence-gathering methods, which have metastasized since 9/11 to levels that rival the capabilities of a midsize country."
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Great piece from @awinston.bsky.social: "One area where Mamdani is guaranteed to clash with Tisch is on the NYPD’s massive technical surveillance apparatus and intelligence-gathering methods, which have metastasized since 9/11 to levels that rival the capabilities of a midsize country."
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I must have been in some sort of mood when I sent in this blurb for @profferguson.bsky.social's important new book
Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
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Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
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November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I must have been in some sort of mood when I sent in this blurb for @profferguson.bsky.social's important new book
Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
nyupress.org/978147983828...
Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
nyupress.org/978147983828...
Thank you for your poetic blurb. And as you wait to buy my book in March you should all read “Police and the Empire City.”
I must have been in some sort of mood when I sent in this blurb for @profferguson.bsky.social's important new book
Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
nyupress.org/978147983828...
Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
nyupress.org/978147983828...
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thank you for your poetic blurb. And as you wait to buy my book in March you should all read “Police and the Empire City.”
Coolest Halloween trick or treat. Giving a book-loving kid a signed book by an award-winning author. Talk about knocking on the right door.
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Coolest Halloween trick or treat. Giving a book-loving kid a signed book by an award-winning author. Talk about knocking on the right door.
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You can see the document for yourself here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You can see the document for yourself here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets
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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets
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NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
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October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
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New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
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“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
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October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
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“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
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Your Data Will Be Used Against You
New from me: A recent report about robot vacuum cleaners sending maps of people’s homes to manufacturers is just the latest in a series of stories about privacy issues with these machines :: Friend link - stribs.medium.com/is-your-vacu...
Is Your Vacuum Cleaner Spying On You?
A recent report about robot vacuum cleaners sending maps of people’s homes to manufacturers is just the latest in a series of stories…
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October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Your Data Will Be Used Against You
Smart glasses that protect against surveillance v. Smart glasses that are surveillance. What a world.
NEW: we tested Zenni's anti-facial recognition glasses coating. "ID Guard" adds a pink sheen to the surface of the glasses that reflects the infrared light used by some facial recognition cameras.
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Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Smart glasses that protect against surveillance v. Smart glasses that are surveillance. What a world.
Read this thread!
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Read this thread!
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Jotwell Crim Law latest:
Mary Fan, AI-Generated Police Reports, JOTWELL (March 4, 2025) (reviewing Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Generative Suspicion and the Risks of AI-Assisted Police Reports (July 17, 2024), available at SSRN), crim.jotwell.com/ai-generated....
Mary Fan, AI-Generated Police Reports, JOTWELL (March 4, 2025) (reviewing Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Generative Suspicion and the Risks of AI-Assisted Police Reports (July 17, 2024), available at SSRN), crim.jotwell.com/ai-generated....
March 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Jotwell Crim Law latest:
Mary Fan, AI-Generated Police Reports, JOTWELL (March 4, 2025) (reviewing Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Generative Suspicion and the Risks of AI-Assisted Police Reports (July 17, 2024), available at SSRN), crim.jotwell.com/ai-generated....
Mary Fan, AI-Generated Police Reports, JOTWELL (March 4, 2025) (reviewing Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Generative Suspicion and the Risks of AI-Assisted Police Reports (July 17, 2024), available at SSRN), crim.jotwell.com/ai-generated....
If you are protesting #NoKings be cognizant that you are under surveillance.
Your rights to petition, assemble, dissent, and just speak your mind are threatened by the same surveillance systems you have helped enable through buying “smart” tech and funding police tech to watch your communities.
Your rights to petition, assemble, dissent, and just speak your mind are threatened by the same surveillance systems you have helped enable through buying “smart” tech and funding police tech to watch your communities.
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you are protesting #NoKings be cognizant that you are under surveillance.
Your rights to petition, assemble, dissent, and just speak your mind are threatened by the same surveillance systems you have helped enable through buying “smart” tech and funding police tech to watch your communities.
Your rights to petition, assemble, dissent, and just speak your mind are threatened by the same surveillance systems you have helped enable through buying “smart” tech and funding police tech to watch your communities.
“Also, around 49% of those interviewed say their agencies are apt to adopt facial recognition and 54% say they are likely to adopt predictive policing tools like AI.”
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More law enforcement agencies using artificial intelligence - Spartan Newsroom
A growing number of law enforcement agencies are using artificial intelligence, a U-M study finds. That includes automated license plate readers, facial recognition technology and other AI tools. The ...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“Also, around 49% of those interviewed say their agencies are apt to adopt facial recognition and 54% say they are likely to adopt predictive policing tools like AI.”
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Can’t say we weren’t warned. And, all of that tech will be normalized in a few years as it expands beyond immigration enforcement.
ICE "has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements," per spending disclosures.
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Can’t say we weren’t warned. And, all of that tech will be normalized in a few years as it expands beyond immigration enforcement.
This debate over AI in policing is going to happen in every city in America over the next few years. billypenn.com/2025/10/17/p...
Philly councilmembers push for protections from misuse of AI
Police use of facial recognition and drones is subject to “rigorous” review, officials say.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This debate over AI in policing is going to happen in every city in America over the next few years. billypenn.com/2025/10/17/p...
Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/a...
Amazon Ring security cameras moving deeper into law enforcement with Flock Safety, Axon deals
Amazon Ring security cameras are getting more deeply into police work through deals with Flock Safety and Axon at time of rising debate over crime levels.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/a...
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@profferguson.bsky.social’s work in this area is so important.
Should you know if police used AI to draft your police report? Only Utah and California require such basic transparency. Who is next? theconversation.com/concerns-abo...
Concerns about AI-written police reports spur states to regulate the emerging practice
AI-generated police reports promise to save cops time, but they also raise a host of legal and technical concerns.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
@profferguson.bsky.social’s work in this area is so important.