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San Francisco Police Allowed 1.6 Million Illegal License Plate Searches by ICE and Out-of-State Agencies

| Importance: 8/10

Records obtained by The San Francisco Standard in September 2025 revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) allowed out-of-state police agencies to run more than 1.6 million illegal searches of the city’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) database, including at least 19 …

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Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion

| Importance: 9/10

Electronic Frontier Foundation reveals that a Johnson County, Texas sheriff’s officer searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader cameras across 6,809 different Flock Safety camera networks to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. The search spanned …

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Legal Resistance Tech Collaboration Platform Launch

| Importance: 7/10

Introduction of a secure, encrypted digital platform enabling distributed legal resistance groups to share research, coordinate strategies, and maintain secure communication channels. Building on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) ongoing work in digital rights and secure communication …

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Strategic Litigation Framework Developed by Legal Resistance Network

| Importance: 9/10

A comprehensive strategic litigation framework is developed by the Constitutional Litigation Consortium, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and American Civil Liberties Union, focusing on coordinated legal challenges to administrative overreach. The strategy prioritizes state-level constitutional …

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Flock Safety Network Expands to 5,000+ Police Departments Performing 20 Billion Monthly Vehicle Scans

| Importance: 9/10

Flock Safety’s automated license plate recognition network reaches unprecedented scale, with more than 5,000 law enforcement departments across the United States using interconnected cameras that perform over 20 billion scans of vehicles every month. The company now operates in more than 5,000 …

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FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality

| Importance: 9/10

The Federal Communications Commission votes 3-2 to punish Comcast for its “surreptitious interference” with BitTorrent uploads, marking the first time any U.S. broadband provider has been found to violate net neutrality principles. The Commission formally adopted an order finding that …

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Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking

| Importance: 8/10

The Associated Press publishes a comprehensive investigation revealing that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company and internet service provider, is secretly interfering with peer-to-peer file sharing applications including BitTorrent by forging network packets to block uploads. The AP …

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