Nick Hidalgo
@nickhidalgo.bsky.social
Senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California
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Whatever the federal presence looks like in the Bay Area on Super Bowl Sunday, we won’t allow it to stop us from exercising our First Amendment right to protest ICE violence.
Before you head out on Sunday, here’s what you need to know about your rights to help you stay safe.
Before you head out on Sunday, here’s what you need to know about your rights to help you stay safe.
February 4, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Whatever the federal presence looks like in the Bay Area on Super Bowl Sunday, we won’t allow it to stop us from exercising our First Amendment right to protest ICE violence.
Before you head out on Sunday, here’s what you need to know about your rights to help you stay safe.
Before you head out on Sunday, here’s what you need to know about your rights to help you stay safe.
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This surveillance tech is a "threat to undocumented immigrants or anyone opposing federal immigration actions who travel[s] through Mountain View, a chilling prospect as the U.S. is rattled by images of federal agents snatching people off the streets, brutalizing protesters and even killing..."
Mountain View police turn off license plate readers, allege unauthorized federal use
Mountain View has shut off its Flock Safety license plate readers over concerns that outside agencies were able to access the vendor’s data, police said.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
This surveillance tech is a "threat to undocumented immigrants or anyone opposing federal immigration actions who travel[s] through Mountain View, a chilling prospect as the U.S. is rattled by images of federal agents snatching people off the streets, brutalizing protesters and even killing..."
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The Department of Homeland Security is abusing administrative subpoenas to terrorize people and stop them from speaking out. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The Department of Homeland Security is abusing administrative subpoenas to terrorize people and stop them from speaking out. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Proud graduate of a football school. GO HOOSIERS!
January 20, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Proud graduate of a football school. GO HOOSIERS!
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pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
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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...
California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
cppa.ca.gov
January 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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...
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FINAL: No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10. The Hoosiers complete a 13-0 season and win their first Big Ten title since 1967. #iufb
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
FINAL: No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10. The Hoosiers complete a 13-0 season and win their first Big Ten title since 1967. #iufb
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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...
Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business.
www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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...
Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business.
www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...
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Surveillance is not safety. Yet government agencies deploy untested, invasive surveillance—like automated license plate readers—without considering proven, non-surveillance alternatives first. Mass surveillance should never be the first approach to public safety. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/l...
Lawsuit over San Jose license plate readers
A new lawsuit by local advocacy groups alleges San Jose's use of data collected by automated license plate readers violates drivers' privacy rights.
www.nbcbayarea.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Surveillance is not safety. Yet government agencies deploy untested, invasive surveillance—like automated license plate readers—without considering proven, non-surveillance alternatives first. Mass surveillance should never be the first approach to public safety. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/l...
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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
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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
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NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis.
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Report Finds That Leading Chatbots Are a Disaster for Teens Facing Mental Health Struggles
A report found that leading chatbots are "fundamentally unsafe" for teens looking for mental health support, and failed to catch red flags.
futurism.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis.
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Today @eff.org & our @aclu-norcal.bsky.social team sued San Jose alleging its warrantless searches for driver locations are unconstitutional. This program is fed by a vast network of license plate readers and amasses people's private habits, associations, and movements www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit...
Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance | ACLU of Northern CA
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November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today @eff.org & our @aclu-norcal.bsky.social team sued San Jose alleging its warrantless searches for driver locations are unconstitutional. This program is fed by a vast network of license plate readers and amasses people's private habits, associations, and movements 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.
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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.
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Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Been out of the SCOTUS opinion analysis for a min (baby). But this Gorsuch Dissent (joined by Thomas 😮) from cert. denial in Veneno v. US, which challenged the Major Crimes Act (a fed. law that allows feds. to prosecute crimes on Indian Reservations), is worth discussing/explaining for a sec. 🧵 1/8
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Been out of the SCOTUS opinion analysis for a min (baby). But this Gorsuch Dissent (joined by Thomas 😮) from cert. denial in Veneno v. US, which challenged the Major Crimes Act (a fed. law that allows feds. to prosecute crimes on Indian Reservations), is worth discussing/explaining for a sec. 🧵 1/8
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Amazon is firing 14,000 employees so that it can invest more in AI.
Record profits for billionaire CEOs has never stopped greedy corporations from screwing over working people.
The system is rigged.
Record profits for billionaire CEOs has never stopped greedy corporations from screwing over working people.
The system is rigged.
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Amazon is firing 14,000 employees so that it can invest more in AI.
Record profits for billionaire CEOs has never stopped greedy corporations from screwing over working people.
The system is rigged.
Record profits for billionaire CEOs has never stopped greedy corporations from screwing over working people.
The system is rigged.
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I can see them wanting to do this to "monitor drivers", but ultimately this is about SURVEILLANCE! Imagine the kind of footage they're getting of the streets, people at their homes, and in their homes, given what the average driver sees in a day! SMH
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I can see them wanting to do this to "monitor drivers", but ultimately this is about SURVEILLANCE! Imagine the kind of footage they're getting of the streets, people at their homes, and in their homes, given what the average driver sees in a day! SMH
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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.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
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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...
We draw heavily from @eff.org's fantastic Surveillance Self Defense resource, available here: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...
October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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...
We draw heavily from @eff.org's fantastic Surveillance Self Defense resource, available here: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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In Illinois, the Evanston Police Department shared their automatic license plate readers with at least seven out-of-state agencies for immigration enforcement. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/06/16/f...
FOIA records reveal Evanston data accessible to out-of-state police making ICE searches - Evanston RoundTable
An automated license plate reader (on black pole) in Evanston just east of the North Shore Channel. The camera looks east along Oakton Street. The
evanstonroundtable.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Illinois, the Evanston Police Department shared their automatic license plate readers with at least seven out-of-state agencies for immigration enforcement. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/06/16/f...
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New from me: Let’s call AI something else.
buttondown.com/creativegood...
I'm drawing on the excellent new book "The AI Con" by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social - and our recent Techtonic interview (click "pop-up player" at www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... ).
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I'm drawing on the excellent new book "The AI Con" by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social - and our recent Techtonic interview (click "pop-up player" at www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... ).
June 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New from me: Let’s call AI something else.
buttondown.com/creativegood...
I'm drawing on the excellent new book "The AI Con" by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social - and our recent Techtonic interview (click "pop-up player" at www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... ).
buttondown.com/creativegood...
I'm drawing on the excellent new book "The AI Con" by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social - and our recent Techtonic interview (click "pop-up player" at www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... ).