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Georgetown Privacy@GeorgetownCPT
14 Jan 2025
We are no longer active here. For more about us and our work, visit our website or find us on Bluesky @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, Instagram @georgetownprivacy, and our LinkedIn page. We also have a newsletter – sign up here: georgetown.us9.list-manage.c…
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Do you work at @WholeFoods? Consider participating in our research survey on workplace surveillance and workers' rights! For more information contact us at privacy@georgetown.edu. georgetown.az1.qualtrics.com… CC: @athenaforall @forrespect @moworkerscenter #workersrights
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Register today! Hear @ClarenceOkoh talk about the surveillance technologies that criminalize youth and young adults. ⬇️
AKA @TheBlackBerryGuy - Gerald Lippert@theCLEguy
12 Dec 2024
Watched Youth: Challenging Surveillance Technology that Criminalize Youth and Young Adults – featuring @ClarenceOkoh of @GeorgetownCPT (Washington, DC) at the 2025 #NACDLRaceMatters Conference in Tulsa, OK. MORE Details from @NACDL: nacdl.org/RaceMatters
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We are thrilled that these smart, talented, creative and caring individuals have agreed to serve on our new advisory board. They will support us as we work towards a world where privacy is for everyone.
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You can read more about them on our new advisory board webpage! law.georgetown.edu/privacy-t…
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“Biden Is About to Hand Over a Vast and Unconstitutional DNA Database to Trump.” In a new piece out today in @truthout, our Executive Director Emily Tucker explains the dangers of the genomic surveillance powers Trump is about to gain access to.
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“Every person’s privacy, security and civil rights are implicated by this program, whether or not their own DNA ever ends up in the database…The only way to stand up for yourself in the face of mass genetic surveillance is to stand up for everyone else.”
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There’s still time before inauguration. In his final days in office, Biden should terminate the program, order the deletion of profiles created through the program and the destruction of any genetic samples the government has stored. Read it here: truthout.org/articles/biden-…

Biden Is About to Hand Over a Vast and Unconstitutional DNA Database to Trump

Every person’s privacy, security and civil rights are implicated by this program.

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Just Security@just_security
2 Jan 2025
The #US-#Mexico border is a laboratory for high-risk experimentation with #AI technologies. @_PMolnar unpacks what to expect under the incoming Trump admin. justsecurity.org/105662/bord…

Border Technologies Under Trump 2.0

With few safeguards to govern AI deployment, high-risk experimentation at the border will likely continue during Trump's second term.

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Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)@_PMolnar
9 Dec 2024
For the @techpolicypress @justinhendrix and I spoke about border tech, dehumanization, and how we can fight the politics of difference that separate us from one another. Audio and transcript here: techpolicy.press/petra-molna…

Petra Molnar on Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Molnar is author of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, published by The New Press in May 2024.

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On Oct. 17, Privacy Center Associate Emerald Tse testified before the DC Council Committee on Health in support of the Consumer Health Information Protection Act (CHIPPA).
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CHIPPA seeks to provide crucial protections for consumer health data. Read Emerald’s blog post about how CHIPPA would protect privacy, especially with regards to health data in apps: medium.com/center-on-privacy…
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Ronan Farrow
@RonanFarrow
20 Nov 2024
The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in @newyorker: newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone

Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?

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The Privacy Center's Executive Director, Emily Tucker, is quoted in an important article out today by @RonanFarrow for @NewYorker about the federal government's contract with the Israeli spyware vendor Paragon Solutions. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone

Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?

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Reporting like this, and reporting on commercial spyware in particular, is absolutely crucial to help people understand how vast and unconstrained the surveillance powers of the executive branch are.
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Last month we signed on to a letter organizedby @HinakoSugiyama and the International Justice Clinic @UCIrvine demanding that @SecMayorkas disclose details of the Paragon contract. But we don't need to see the contract to know it should be canceled. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.…
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Happy change in plans for Color of Surveillance programming! We will now live stream local artist Mercedes’ experimental opera, “We Shall Not Inherit The Earth” on our Instagram account! Head there at 5pm to view. Our handle is: georgetownprivacy
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It's a beautiful day in DC as Color of Surveillance 2024: Surveillance/Resistance gets underway. We have an incredible lineup of speakers & attendees including some of the bravest writers, teachers, activists & artists taking on the problems of technology and surveillance today.
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Vibes are good and the space is vibrant. Looking forward to seeing many of you in person and online! If you need the livestream link, please email us at privacy@georgetown.edu.
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