For years, people knew that ICE could search the addresses of the customers of 80 gas, water, electric, phone, and cable companies.

But no one has known how ICE gets that data, or the companies who are sharing it.

Our new technologist, @NinaLWang, seems to have figured it out.

https://twitter.com/GeorgetownCPT/status/1365382637146275844

People get gas, water, and electricity in their home because they need heat, water, and lights to survive. ICE takes advantage of those basic needs to find and deport people.

The first time I heard the word Latinx I was like “wait, what did you call me? Yeah, no, whatever that is I am not that.”

But then they explained it to me. And I came around. So, here’s a few thoughts why I use it myself and for the people I feel a part of. I call myself Latinx for the same reason I *don’t* call my wife "Mrs. Alvaro M. Bedoya”: women and non-binary people exist and deserve the same respect I do.

Also, I don't want to call people of Latin American descent a term that erases most people of Latin American descent.

1/ Miles Taylor is no resistance hero. He was an active facilitator of the separations of thousands of boys and girls from their parents who is now whitewashing his own reputation.
nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/… 2/ Miles Taylor propagated the myth that the moms and dads arriving at the border were not in fact parents.

Don't take my word for it. Here's the stories he solicited for Secretary Nielsen to use for this, and a link to his email soliciting them. documentcloud.org/documents/6881…

1/ Thanks to the reporting of @Haleaziz, @aflores, @SalHernandez, @RMac18 and @jacobsoboroff, we know that Miles Taylor’s claims to have been uninvolved in DHS family separations is fiction. buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/hameda… 2/ Here in April 2018 is Miles Taylor asking Katie Waldman (now Miller) for cases to help Secretary Nielsen propagate the fiction that the families showing up at the border were actually fake.

1/ If you are thinking about investing in @PalantirTech, then here are some people who you should be aware of.

#DefundPalantir #NoTechForICE 2/ A 7-year-old boy fled Honduras after his dad was murdered and his mom left him. His uncle took him in.

ICE agents came to their home claiming that they were checking on the boy.

With the boy watching, the agents arrested the uncle and then put him in removal proceedings.

The Feldman op-ed reminds me of a warning I give my law students.

I start by admitting that I hated law school. If the student is struggling, I’ll add that I once told a friend that if I ever try to teach law school, “please shoot me in the head.” There was an extra word there. I tell them that I hated law school because it rewards, hand over fist, a very specific kind of intelligence: The ability to answer, on-the-fly and on-the-spot, to an abstract hypothetical that’s divorced from reality — without reference to notes or the ability to reflect.

The @NoahRFeldman op-ed is deeply disingenuous.

You cannot use the sentence “elections have consequences” in a post-2016 op-ed supporting a SCOTUS nominee and spend all of one sentence discussing Merrick Garland. For a constitutional scholar to fail to appreciate that we’re in the middle of a republic-defining authoritarian power grab - Trump this very week said he would not accept the results of this election! - to blithely support your friend for the highest court in the land is bizarre

1/ I've worked in tech policy for a decade. In most rooms, I'm usually the only Latino - almost always the only Latinx immigrant.

If you care about immigrants or Latinx people, if you care about kids, I need you to care about Palantir's IPO next Tuesday.
slate.com/technology/202… 2/ Palantir wrote the final layer of code facilitating countless deportations - and Trump's first systematic family separations.

When confronted, Palantir's CEO has made demonstrably false denials. He has lied.

Their stock goes on sale Tuesday as if none of this had happened.

1/ I'm often asked for readings on the #ColorofSurveillance -- how race, religion, class, immigration, and sexuality intersect with surveillance.

Here's a public and free syllabus you can use in your classrooms, or for your own reading.

docs.google.com/document/d/1Rt… 2/ What will you notice?

For most module, I try to cite first-person accounts on the lived impact of surveillance. For the slavery module, for example, we open with Frederick Douglass' first autobiography.

(Also, you can't teach Foucault in 2020 and not read @wewatchwatchers.)

This is a watershed moment for face recognition. We can either heed its implications and stop using this dangerous technology. Or we can ignore it.

https://twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/status/1275731177094201351

Vendors sell face recognition with the fiction that it’s only an “investigative lead.”

Yet the “match” is often the definitive part of the “investigation” that follows.

One man was arrested after police sent a single photo - his own - to witnesses and asked ‘is this the guy’?

🚨@GeorgetownLaw rising 2Ls + 3Ls 🚨

Wondering how you can make a difference this fall? Embed within the privacy center (@GeorgetownCPT) & work to release a report exposing ICE’s use and abuse of surveillance.

Apply with a simple email. Details below. Some relevant past coalition work: apnews.com/08d469b81a3149…

1/ May 12, 1950: 70 years ago #onthisday, a Hispanic man stood on the Senate floor and denounced Joe McCarthy.

Many think that Joseph Welch or Margaret Smith were first to confront McCarthy in the Senate.

Dennis Chávez, the first U.S.-born Hispanic senator, came before them. 2/ To appreciate what Chávez did, look at Senate of 1950.

When New Mexico sent Chávez to the Senate in 1935, there were no other Hispanics. Or African Americans. Or Native Americans. Or Asian Americans.

One senator called him “the Senator from Mexico.” Seriously:

1/ On morning fifty-something of quarantine, we caught Kian staring at Liyana across the table with a complete and uncomplicated adoration.

Taking care of “two under 2” is intense, but these moments are pretty great.

So, here are three love poems to newborns and toddlers... 2/ “Cairn at 4am” by Anna McDonald (and she is right)

Um here’s a couple

1) Deny unanimous consent. The Senate schedule runs on the assumption that not 1 senator will object to proceed to the next item.
So... object.

Remember when Ds had to speed-read the ACA 3 times in the dead of night to get votes? The Rs denied UC.

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1227379060994641921

2) Just walk out. Remember when the White House dumped thousands of new documents on Senate Judiciary *the morning of the Kavanaugh hearing*?

The Ds made a bunch of objections and made a stink... and then stayed in their chairs.

1/ My love of poetry and my day job advocating for the privacy of vulnerable people rarely intersect, but thanks to @poetryquestion, today they did. I used it as an opportunity to talk about five of my favorite poets.

https://twitter.com/poetryquestion/status/1203951176007458817

@poetryquestion 2/ Javier Zamora's Unaccompanied (@CopperCanyonPrs) is the most searing writing I've read about unaccompanied kids and what they live through to get here. As I talk about in #TPQ5, I assign "Cassette Tape" in my clinic. granta.com/cassette-tape/

1/ A week out from #ColorOfSurveillance and my co-organizer @gabriellexgem have a few more transformational speakers to tell you about. @gabriellexgem 2/ Surveillance of workers used to be one-off and outside-in.

Now it is constant... and workers are expected to do it to themselves.

@iajunwa will speak about her foundational article (with @katecrawford and @Lawgeek), Limitless Worker Surveillance: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

1/ One of the things we're proudest about for #ColorOfSurveillance is that we feature people personally affected by surveillance. Two years ago, Prof. Xi of Temple told this harrowing story: This year is no different. 2/ @schylardblkgrn, a D.C. public housing resident, will speak about the constant monitoring residents experience. She's a powerful advocate, having partnered with @ACLU_DC to push back when officials tried to bar her from city meetings. acludc.org/en/cases/ponde…

1/ “After a year working on the floor, I felt like I had become a version of the robots I was working with.”

In 2018, Amazon was issued new patents to let them track their workers through wristband haptic monitors.

via @geekwire: geekwire.com/2018/amazon-wi… #colorofsurveillance @geekwire 2/ We’re warned: Automation will decimate labor. What if we’re missing something?

@BrishenRogers argues that the threat isn't from mechanization. Rather, it is *surveillance* that will help companies ID tasks to outsource to “low-skilled” low-wage labor.
rooseveltinstitute.org/beyond-automat…

1/ Look up the "Molly Maguires."

You'll see portrayals of a vicious gang of Irish coal miners that murdered mine owners in the dead of night.

How vicious?

Aaaah... pretty vicious, according to historians at the time. From F.P. Dewees (1877) #colorofsurveillance 2/ Problem?

This xenophobic caricature ignores the brutalization of coal miners by mine owners and the state...

ignores many workers' dual role as labor leaders...

justifies their infiltration by the Pinkertons...

who laid the ground for executions of 10 of their leaders.

1/ The most vulnerable are in a no-win situation:

The unhoused struggle to have privacy (or control) in their lives.

Yet those who *find* shelter often live in spaces designed to maximize surveillance.

(Sound familiar?) #colorofsurveillance

https://twitter.com/alvarombedoya/status/1168934865657614337

2/ At #ColorOfSurveillance, @GotNoPlace will explain the maze of local laws that basically criminalize not having a home.

Countless cities make it illegal to sleep, sit, "loaf," loiter, or ask people for help.

From the #HousingNOTHandcuffs report (PDF: homelesshub.ca/sites/default/…)

1/ For the unhoused, giving up deeply personal information is a part of daily life.

Below -- a template for the Homeless Management Information System intake form for homeless people seeking shelter. #colorofsurveillance 2/ Many may assume that poor and working class people don't value their privacy.

The crushing reality is that the *opposite* is true. The less money you make, the *more* you worry about what happens to your data.

@mary_madden showed this in a recent @datasociety survey: