Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
LightNews LightNews
mayu-tm.bsky.social
Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
@mayu-tm.bsky.social
41 followers 82 following 3 posts
Tech law & privacy 👩🏻‍💻 Law Fellow at @EPICprivacy 💼 Fordham law & Rice University alum 👩🏻‍🎓
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
tepski.tech
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/03/m...
Immigration attorney says federal officials confiscated his cell phone at Logan, without cause - The Boston Globe
Andrew Lattarulo regularly calls out ICE tactics on his popular Instagram account.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
marisakabas.bsky.social
FUCK ICE FOREVER
tilleckert.com Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · Sep 30
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
September 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
kyledcheney.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
wrecked9n76e.bsky.social
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: photos we were sent show the aftermath of a National Guard vehicle in DC t-boning a civilian vehicle. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) All Terrain Vehicle was previously used in the Afghanistan War. Now bashing peoples' cars in U.S. www.404media.co/a-national-g...
A National Guard Tactical Vehicle T-Boned a Civilian Car in D.C.
Emergency workers sent a civilian to the hospital after an Afghanistan War era military vehicle smashed into their car.
www.404media.co
August 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
thetnholler.bsky.social
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
August 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
knightcolumbia.org
DHS “Tiger Team” Scrutinizing Student Protesters Was Told to Investigate 5,000 Names Listed by Canary Mission, ICE Official Testifies. Check out more highlights from Day 3 of trial at the link: knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...
AAUP v. Rubio, Daily Trial Updates
knightcolumbia.org
July 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
mayu-tm.bsky.social
This is huge, and a testament to the great work by 404 media's incisive reporting on the law enforcement surveillance apparatus across the U.S.
www.404media.co/flock-remove...
Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
mayu-tm.bsky.social
So proud to have this report out today! Thanks to the support from my amazing team at EPIC 🎉
epic.org EPIC @epic.org · Jun 25
⚠️🤖 Today, EPIC released Assessing the Assessments: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Algorithmic & Privacy Risk Assessments. The report lays out the ideal elements of a risk assessment framework and engages with California’s ongoing development of risk assessment rules. epic.org/assessing-th...
June 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
caitrionafitz.bsky.social
The leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee wrote to #23andme saying that since there is no federal comprehensive data privacy law, they have "great concern" about the safety of Americans' most sensitive personal info. Not at all frustrating.

energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
Chairmen Guthrie, Bilirakis, and Palmer Launch Investigation into 23andMe and its Handling of Americans’ Sensitive Medical and Genetic Information
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
energycommerce.house.gov
April 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
epic.org
EPIC & @consumerreports.org are pleased to re-release the State Data Privacy Act with lots of new endorsements!

Now endorsed by:
Accountable Tech | CDT | Common Sense Media | CFA | Issue One | PIRG | Public Knowledge | Young People's Alliance

Learn more: epic.org/state-data-privacy-act
Logos of endorsing orgs
April 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
epic.org
EPIC updated our tracker on real-life harms from algorithmic systems in California – check it out here: epic.org/update-track...
Update: Tracking of Real Algorithmic Harms in California as Enforcement Continues
<p>As part of our project Assessing the Assessments—supported by the Rose Foundation—EPIC is continuing to track instances of real AI harms that are relevant to enforcement of the California Consumer ...
epic.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
angus.bsky.social
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 9
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
epic.org
⚠️ BREAKING: Last Friday, EPIC sued the Office of Personnel Management under the Freedom of Information Act seeking records on the agency's information security and worker privacy practices. 🧵 (1/4) 

Read more about our complaint here: epic.org/breaking-epi...
BREAKING: EPIC Sues OPM for Records on OPM’s Information Security and Employee Privacy Practices
<p>Last Friday, EPIC sued the Office of Personnel Management under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) after the agency failed to respond to EPIC’s requests for records concerning OPM’s information ...
epic.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
epic.org
Kroger is using surveillance pricing is trying to manipulate how much you spend on groceries by collecting as much data as they can about you— and it's not just creepy, you're probably paying more for grocery because of it. 🧵

Check out @mayu-tm.bsky.social's blog post: epic.org/krogers-surv...
Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition
<p>Every time you step into a grocery store, you step into a machinery of data that tracks, analyzes, shares, and influences your shopping behavior. Based on shopping history and data shared from data...
epic.org
February 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
mayu-tm.bsky.social
So proud of my colleagues’ work on this!
epic.org EPIC @epic.org · Feb 11
🚨 EPIC, @democracyforward.bsky.social, and a federal worker filed suit today against DOGE over its illegal seizure of personnel records and payment system data—actions which constitute the largest data breach in American history. 🧵

Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
February 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
mmasnick.bsky.social
Begging the political press to stop just reporting on what Trump says he's done, and actually investigating what has *actually* happened. The focus on rushing out stories to be first is letting the MAGA world play you over and over and over again.
January 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
epic.org
Nearly 1/2 of states that passed consumer privacy laws get a failing grade for protecting consumers’ data, according to The State of Privacy, an updated scorecard from EPIC & U.S. PIRG Education Fund.

See your state’s report card: epic.org/state-of-privacy-2025 spoiler alert: no state earned an A!
January 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
epic.org
🚨 EPIC and Enforce (@iccl.bsky.social) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵

Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
January 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
salome.bsky.social
Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
December 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Reposted by Mayu Tobin-Miyaji
cobun.bsky.social
Next Sunu reads her first poem of the day, and makes me cry for the first time today... www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...
October on the subway, roses at my side kids being loud. One skinny girl with a cap and a pretty smile gets up to give me her seat and takes this chance to sit on her friend’s lap. I read the paper and look over at these girls. So free and easy they are laughing laughing. I look at the pink pink roses and how I say I am not a romantic and how this whole roses thing is going to ruin my reputation against romance. I watch the girls. I watch the skinny girl in boy’s clothes and pretty smile flirt with all the other girls. So free and easy they are laughing laughing. And the man next to me, he is also watching watching. And the man next to me, he leans over and says to me: Hey Miss, Hey Miss, that’s too pretty to be a boy, right? As if somehow that thought disgusts him. As if he wants some agreement about this disgust. And me I am just relieved that he knows that I am a Miss and not a pretty boy. So I just shrug and I say nothing because it is 1997 and I am still afraid. Afraid to say what does a she look like and what does a boy look like. And what does too pretty look like and what is your problem exactly. And I don’t know whether his disgust is that he thinks girls who look like boys should be beat up or boys who look like girls should be beat up because, in fact, we know, they both are. I only know that I was relieved that he did not know my pink pink roses were for a girl and somehow I have this safety of passing and I think to myself: You all sitting there laughing laughing sitting there on your sixth grade girlfriend’s lap so free and easy, laughing laughing, be safe my handsome girls, be safe my pretty boys.
November 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM