Patrick Toomey
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Deputy Director w/ @ACLU's National Security Project. Views here are my own.
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https://www.aclu.org/bio/patrick-toomey 28-10-2013 02:17:18
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Earlier this week, we at Knight First Amendment Institute filed a new case that we hope will change the way people are allowed to use social media. Our client is Prof. Ethan Zuckerman (Ethan Zuckerman), and we’re suing Meta. It’s a novel case with big aspirations. 🧵 knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…
Yesterday the Brennan Center, joined by more than 20 civil society organizations, urged the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence to declassify information that is critical to ongoing efforts to rein in a dangerous surveillance power. 1/17 brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
Last week the S Ct handed down a ruling that matters for jawboning cases about govt pressure on platform content moderation (including the Ct’s pending Murthy case). It got lost in the hubbub of other judicial developments, so I’m writing about it now. supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf… 1/
Today @ 10AM: the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board is holding a public forum on AI and counterterrorism—and the resulting dangers to civil rights and civil liberties. Great thread on many of the AI-powered programs we & Brennan Center are urging the Board to scrutinize:
Before the next #FISA Section 702 renewal, former House Judiciary Dems Chair Bob Goodlatte and former Assoc. Counsel to Pres. George HW Bush Gene Schaerr write, the intelligence community “must take stock” of “why it is losing trust.” justsecurity.org/97812/intellig…