Jake Snow is a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, where he works on a variety of issues, including consumer privacy, surveillance, automated decision systems, and the preservation of free speech online. At the ACLU, he has worked to bring attention to the harms of facial recognition on communities, brought litigation to protect the constitutional rights people targeted by the Trump administration on the basis of their speech, and represented tenants opposing AI-powered landlord surveillance in their homes.
During our conversation, he mentioned two articles of interest to readers: A Business Insider article about Flock Camera misreads and an ACLU NorCal press release about a victory against the Department of Homeland Security that protected the identities of social media users who posted about ICE raids in Los Angeles.
Another resource acknowledged in our conversation is the ACLU's Seeing Through Surveillance: Why Policymakers Should Look Past the Hype. The report includes helpful resources for communities concerned about the proliferation or use of surveillance technology in their comm https://www.aclunorcal.org/press-releases/dhs-withdraws-subpoena-seeking-unmask-instagram-users-who-posted-about-ice-raids/ unities.
You can learn more about ACLU Norcal by navigating to www.aclunorcal.org.
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To learn more about your host, Sharon Brisolara, go to inquirythatmatters.com.
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