Meta's plans to install facial recognition in their “smart” glasses would destroy our chance at privacy and anonymity in public. We could all be identified without our consent.
Send a message to Meta demanding they make eyewear, not spywear.
Powerful questions from @eff.org client Amandla Thomas-Johnson, re Google sharing of his information with ICE:
"Am I now a marked individual?
Can I travel safely to see family in the Caribbean?
Who, exactly, can I hold accountable?" www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The Lochnerization of humanity's immortal soul has begun.
We woke up early to hear our colleague Cecillia Wang defend birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court.
ACLU NorCal’s Executive Director Abdi Soltani—a birthright citizen himself—reflects on today’s arguments and the Bay Area roots of a key chapter in the history of birthright citizenship.
Nicole Ozer smiles at the camera, wearing black-framed glasses and a black shirt with four gold buttons across the shoulder while sitting in a red chair.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Nicole Ozer, @nicoleozer.bsky.social, has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1!
Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5)
Periodic reminder that the First Amendment isn’t magic. It requires broadcasters to defend their rights. If they don’t, if they capitulate for whatever reason - money, convenience, fear - the far that this is a flagrant First Amendment violation won’t matter.
NEW: We filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to ban police from using geofence warrants, which forces tech companies to hand over location data for everyone in a certain area during a certain time.
These invasive searches ensnare innocent people and violate our Fourth Amendment rights.
It's important that lawmakers are demanding answers here. Every user of social media (including our clients in the cases we've filed) deserves to know whether companies are stepping up to protect them or selling them out to a repressive government.
“With these subpoenas, the government is intimidating anonymous social media users who are documenting ICE in their communities. Companies are capitulating to demands instead of fighting illegal subpoenas in court,” said ACLU attorney @snowjake.bsky.social.
The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses.
Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
The Department of Homeland Security is abusing administrative subpoenas to terrorize people and stop them from speaking out. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
WOW @nicoleozer.bsky.social, a brilliant privacy scholar and leader (and my former boss), has been appointed to the board of @calprivacy.bsky.social. This is ✨amazing news✨ for Californians' privacy. cppa.ca.gov/announcement...
Subscribe to my new ~biweekly newsletter, Tech Shadow Work, where I will write about the unspoken "shadow" behind tech policy discourse: rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-t...
It’s been quite a year. Here’s a look back at some of the work we’re most proud of in 2025.
When you must accept surveillance as a condition of receiving a service (including housing): “It’s not convenience; it’s coercion.”
BREAKING: @aclu-norcal.bsky.social, Lieff Cabraser, and Tobener Ravenscroft just sued San Francisco landlords over AI-powered surveillance in people's homes.
Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business.
www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...
BREAKING: @aclu-norcal.bsky.social, Lieff Cabraser, and Tobener Ravenscroft just sued San Francisco landlords over AI-powered surveillance in people's homes.
Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business.
www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...
VICTORY: DHS has withdrawn its subpoena demanding the identities of anonymous Instagram users who posted about ICE raids in LA. The First Amendment protects your right to record police, to share those recordings, and do so anonymously. @snowjake.bsky.social @aclu.org
Today @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @eff.org filed a lawsuit on behalf of non-profit advocacy groups challenging San Jose’s warrantless searches as violating the California Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and right to privacy.
www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit...
The San Jose PD regularly conducts warrantless searches through its massive license plate reader database, allowing it to reconstruct detailed maps of a person’s movements through the City going back as far as a year. This poses a serious threat to communities’ privacy and freedom of movement.
Your boy has plans, I have plans too.
The case challenged UCLA's decision to dismantle the Palestine Solidarity Encampment, arguing that it violated the plaintiffs' constitutional right to free expression and that the unlawful assembly declaration that caused the arrests of 200+ people at the Encampment was unconstitutional.
BREAKING NEWS: A judge this morning allowed the lawsuit by @aclusocal.bsky.social & Walkup Melodia against the UC Regents on behalf of Palestine solidarity activists from UCLA (2 students and 2 faculty members) to proceed, marking an important preliminary victory for student speech on CA campuses.
A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Good to be a part of this litigation team.
We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
If you're going out to protest this weekend and wondering how to protect yourself from digital surveillance, @aclu-norcal.bsky.social has a video for you (featuring, yes, me).
We draw heavily from @eff.org's fantastic Surveillance Self Defense resource, available here: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...
📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
The legendary parking pass for Nobel Laureates is both immense and hilarious.
Today, Prof. John Clarke at UC Berkeley (who is, full disclosure, my father-in-law) won the Nobel Prize in Physics!
He also spoke out about how the Trump administration's cuts would "cripple science" and take a decade to rebuild.
