@stopspyingny.bsky.social
Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
@nyclu.orgReposted by @stopspyingny.bsky.socialICE out of the Bronx. ICE out of New York. ICE out - now.
@couts.bsky.socialReposted by @stopspyingny.bsky.socialNEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialS.T.O.P. Research Director Eleni Manis was featured in an NYU Wagner Alumni Spotlight! Read more here: wagner.nyu.edu/news/story/a...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialIn an expose with @latinojustice.bsky.social, STOP found that over 33 months, NYPD officers accessed Flock Safety data 1,710 times. The lack of accountability for officers who have access to this data and continue to use it is alarming.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/04/r...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialSTOP on noise cameras: "If you install a noise camera, it could be used to listen to just about anything in the vicinity.” - William Owen, STOP Communications Director
Read here: nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialICE protestors in Maine found their data entered into Palantir’s Gotham-based ICM system, which automatically shares data with Customs and Border Protection.
Read here: www.gadgetreview.com/ice-put-prot...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialFacial recognition software was crucial for DHS's massive federal enforcement campaign in Minneapolis, highlighting the ways Black migrants have heightened vulnerabilities to mass surveillance. @techpolicypress.bsky.social
Read here: www.techpolicy.press/black-migran...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialEven after Syracuse ended its contract with Flock in March, the company continues to surveil Central New York through clients like school districts and retailers. This data has real, tangible effects on our lives.
Read more: centralcurrent.org/syracuses-fl...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialNYPD Flock usage overwhelmingly lacks transparency. "It's at least 24 officers who used Flock, but there's an awful lot of blanks. There are 418 searches, with no officer name, conducted by who knows who for the NYPD." - Eleni Manis, Research Director
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/29/n...
@stopspyingny.bsky.social"[There is a] general shift of policing toward a constant monitoring, rather than the original promises of the Fourth Amendment... it's very much a false narrative that surveillance will always lead to safety." - Michelle Dahl, Executive Director
Read more: www.easthamptonstar.com/police-court...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialCities are now being forced to sign agreements allowing their ALPR data to be channeled into federal government surveillance servers- data which then becomes accessible to other law enforcement agencies who might previously not had access. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social
@stopspyingny.bsky.social"Privacy is certainly a key concern, as well as how these technologies will contribute to the terror that immigrant communities are facing... I fear that these will be showing up at protests more and more” - STOP Communications Director Will Owen
Read more here: www.scrippsnews.com/investigatio...
@jmbooyah.bsky.socialReposted by @stopspyingny.bsky.socialChatGPT and Grok did so without hesitation, even though ChatGPT later admitted that exposing the hair of a woman who wears hijab “can be a meaningful violation of privacy or religious practice.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
@jmbooyah.bsky.socialReposted by @stopspyingny.bsky.socialWe tested AI chatbots to see if they’d take the hijab off of an image of a Muslim woman. Gemini said it can’t alter a pic to remove someone’s hijab without consent. When we asked to make her look more “western” it responded with a picture of her without a hijab. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialA surveillance company shared plans with cops to add facial recognition to Flock cameras. They say the technology can be used to categorize individuals based on age, race, and gender to add to larger "watchlists."
Read more: 404media.co/surveillance...
@stopspyingny.bsky.social"Flock’s own newly announced guardrails are nothing more than a crisis PR stunt, still granting officers plenty of power to misreport how they are using the database.” - William Owen, STOP Communications Director
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialAfter reading our report with @latinojustice.bsky.social , @nytimes.com reporter Maria Cramer investigated and found #NYPD officers used #Flock after the firm approached them with a free trial—without approval from NYPD executive leadership.
Read the full story:
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/n...
@latinojustice.bsky.socialReposted by @stopspyingny.bsky.socialNew York state banned local police from doing ICE's work. In the Times Union, our President Lourdes M. Rosado writes that the state must now close the loopholes and pass New York for All. Read the op-ed: visit.latinojustice.org/close-the-loopholes
@stopspyingny.bsky.socialFlock wants to shut down the Flock Surveillance Map, a detailed map of its surveillance devices. The database not only shows the scope of Flock's reach, but also its vulnerability to data leaks.
Read Nikita Mazurov's article at: theintercept.com/2026/09/24/h...
@stopspyingny.bsky.social"Surveillance is booming with the Trump administration’s unprecedented spending on spyware... This has led to a surge in spyware firms looking to cash in on the erosion of our civil rights and privacy.” -William Owen, STOP Communications Director
Read more here: fedscoop.com/dhs-ice-surv...
