Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock—a network used by ICE, police & feds—in a major privacy red flag 🚨

Cops can now request Ring footage, expanding AI surveillance into our neighborhoods 🎥
Flock tracks vehicles & uses biased AI to ID people ⚠️

Given Ring’s privacy failures, this is deeply alarming 😠

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Ring #Flock #Amazon #AI #CivilRights #BigBrother #SmartHome #Police #Data #BigTech #DigitalRights #Security

Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock—a network used by ICE, police & feds—in a major privacy red flag 🚨

Cops can now request Ring footage, expanding AI surveillance into our neighborhoods 🎥
Flock tracks vehicles & uses biased AI to ID people ⚠️

Given Ring’s privacy failures, this is deeply alarming 😠

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Ring #Flock #Amazon #AI #CivilRights #BigBrother #SmartHome #Police #Data #BigTech #DigitalRights #Security

OpenAI has paused the ability for Sora users to generate video resembling the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The decision came from King’s estate after users produced “disrespectful depictions” of his image. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/CbHCEg

#Tech #AI #OpenAI #Sora #MartinLutherKing #CivilRights

But Democratic lawmakers, #CivilRights watchdogs & fmr officials have expressed concern that #ICE now has a green light not only to monitor immigrant communities, but also to carry out broad #surveillance of Americans exercising their #FirstAmendment right to oppose government action.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech#SurveillanceState#MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny#NoKings

The #UN#HumanRights Council (special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful #assembly and of #association) is calling for comments on the “Impact of digital and #AI assisted #surveillance on assembly and association rights, including chilling effects.”
https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-input-hrc62-thematic-report-impact-digital-and-ai-assisted-surveillance

Comments are due by Nov 7, 2025.

#CivilRights#Dissent#PeacefulProtests

The #UN#HumanRights Council (special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful #assembly and of #association) is calling for comments on the “Impact of digital and #AI assisted #surveillance on assembly and association rights, including chilling effects.”
https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-input-hrc62-thematic-report-impact-digital-and-ai-assisted-surveillance

Comments are due by Nov 7, 2025.

#CivilRights#Dissent#PeacefulProtests

An SUV driven by the federal agents collided with the car they were pursuing, #Chicago PD said, sending that car into another vehicle that was parked nearby.

After the crash, dozens of additional #immigration agents in masks arrived & residents emerged from their houses, gathering on streets & sidewalks, throwing objects at agents & shouting, “ICE go home!”

#Trump #law#RecklessEndangerment#CivilRights#HumanRights#DueProcess #fascism#MafiaState#PoliceBrutality#ICE#CBP#Gestapo

The #Louisiana case heard Wednesday raises the possibility that #SCOTUS will rule that the #law, in seeking to protect minority voters, runs afoul of a conservative understanding of the #14thAmendment, one that forbids the government from making distinctions based on #race.

In the #NorthDakota case, the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in July that only the government, not voters or other private parties, can sue to enforce the voting law.

#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights

The case, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe, was brought by 2 tribes & several voters. It challenged a state legislative map that they said denied #NativeAmerican voters an #equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.

#SCOTUS paused the 8th Circuit’s ruling in July. 3 members of the court — Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito & Neil #Gorsuch — noted dissents. It takes 4 votes to grant review.

#law#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy

If #SCOTUS ends up agreeing with the 8th Circuit, it would upend #VotingRights #litigation nationwide. According to a supporting brief filed by voting rights historians last year in a different case, 93% of challenges under the provision since 1982 were brought by private plaintiffs. It is very unlikely that the #Trump admin would sue to enforce the law in most voting controversies.

#law#VRA#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy

The #Louisiana case heard Wednesday raises the possibility that #SCOTUS will rule that the #law, in seeking to protect minority voters, runs afoul of a conservative understanding of the #14thAmendment, one that forbids the government from making distinctions based on #race.

In the #NorthDakota case, the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in July that only the government, not voters or other private parties, can sue to enforce the voting law.

#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights

A key part of the #VotingRightsAct, the 1965 #CivilRights landmark, appears at risk after arguments in a case from #Louisiana before #SCOTUS on Wednesday. It is at least possible that the court will rule unconstitutional a provision allowing states to use #race as a factor in drawing electoral maps.

But even if the #law survives its encounter with the justices, it faces a second significant challenge, from #NorthDakota. The court will consider whether to hear an appeal in that case in November.

Janai Nelson president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is back up. Again, she is the only lawyer before the court arguing for maintaining §2 of the #VRA as it is. There are 3 lawyers arguing against her, 1 each for the State of #Louisiana, the #Trump admin, & #white voters in Louisiana.

“Louisiana is emblematic of the ongoing need for Section 2,” she said.

She closes her argument, the case is submitted. Court adjourned.

#SCOTUS #law#VotingRights#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy

Sorry, have to laugh right now as #AmyConeyBarrett says to Mooppan than it is a “big ask” to reconfigure #Gingles because its a 40 year old #precedent.

Is she serious?

Can you say #RoeVWade?

#SCOTUS #hypocrisy #law#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy

Mooppan, #Trump administration’s lawyer calls the voting map in #Louisiana a “reverse partisan gerrymander” based on race because #Black voters in the state overwhelmingly back #Democratic candidates. He suggests that in a #Republican-dominated state like #WestVirginia, white #Democrats do not get congressional districts drawn to give them an opportunity to elect their candidates of choice [cuz the Trump admin really cares about white Dems🙄]

#SCOTUS #law#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights

Lawyers for #Louisiana & the #Trump admin [the first admin ever to challenge the law] will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s 2nd majority Black congressional district & make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of #race in #redistricting.

#law#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-voting-rights-arguments-updates?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Live+updates

The questioning begins with Thomas. His long-held view that drawing districts with #race in mind violates the #Constitution. Until now, that view has never commanded a majority of the court.

#SCOTUS #law#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy

Arguments underway in #SCOTUS#VotingRightsAct case

#JohnRoberts first called on Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to present her argument. Nelson is representing Press Robinson & other #Black#Louisiana voters.

Nelson argues her opponents “seek stagging reversal of precedent that would throw maps across the country into chaos.”

#law#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy

The other lawyers are the #Trump administration’s deputy solicitor general, Hashim Mooppan, #Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga & Edward Greim, the lawyer for the #white voters who sued over the map with 2 majority #Black districts.

Louisiana switched sides after the court ordered new arguments.

#SCOTUS #law#VotingRights#VRA#CivilRights#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy

4 lawyers will present arguments to the court

But only one is defending the #Louisiana congressional map with 2 majority #Black districts.

That will be #CivilRights lawyer Janai Nelson, representing the Black voters who sued when the state initially produced a map with just one majority Black district.

#SCOTUS #law#VotingRights#VRA#ActivistCourt#WhiteSupremacy