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Thanks again to the lovely people who came out to my talk last night, and big ups to @Info_Activism and @mozilla for putting on THE GLASS ROOM, a fun and interactive tech/art/privacy show in downtown SF. (Free!)

@Info_Activism @mozilla My book is here: habeasdatabook.com

Here’s some stories I’ve done on surveillance at US border for @NBCNews and @arstechnica :

1) Without warrants, U.S. border agents can search devices for wide range of crimes, lawyers claim (April 2019)

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
@Info_Activism @mozilla @NBCNews @arstechnica 2) How Face ID could be a game-changer for aggressive US border agents (Oct 2018)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@Info_Activism @mozilla @NBCNews @arstechnica 3) Woman: My iPhone was seized at border, then imaged—feds must now delete data (Aug 2018)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@Info_Activism @mozilla @NBCNews @arstechnica 4) Remember the artist whose iPhone was searched at border? He’s suing the feds (Sept 2017)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@Info_Activism @mozilla @NBCNews @arstechnica 5) Man: Border agents threatened to “be dicks,” take my phone if I didn’t unlock it

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@Info_Activism @mozilla @NBCNews @arstechnica 6) Cheese danish shipping, warrantless GPS trackers, and a border doctrine challenge (Sept 2018)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@Info_Activism @mozilla @NBCNews @arstechnica 7) Feds to judge: We still think we can put GPS trackers on cars entering US (Oct 2018)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
8) Woman sues border agency after invasive cavity search for non-existent drugs (June 2016)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
9) Man removes feds’ spy cam, they demand it back, he refuses and sues (Feb 2018)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
10) Feds find border drones don’t actually make border more secure (Jan 2015)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
11) It’s about to get tougher for cops, border agents to get at your iPhone’s data (Sept 2017)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
12) Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers (July 2014)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
13) Feds have spent 13 years failing to verify whether passport data is legit (Feb 2018)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
14) Judge won’t let student challenge electronics searches at US border (Dec 2013)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
15) Supreme Court enshrines “reasonable suspicion” for device search at border (Jan 2014)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
And finally, one of my fav pieces of the exhibit is the Megapixels piece by @adamhrv.

You can have your face scanned and run through facial recognition databases—my face was found 33 times!

@oliviasolon did great work on this:
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…

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