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Live today at 2pm ET.

Rob Sheldon of Eyes Off Eugene-Springfield joins us to explain how Eugene and Springfield dropped Flock on the same night, and what his group found when they opened up legally acquired Flock Falcon cameras. One result: FlockBlocker, a device that can feed a Falcon fake images. Remember that the next time someone calls a Flock hit evidence.

Join us live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Q7T...

#FlockSafety #HideAndSpeak

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Rob Sheldon joins us this Saturday, November 14 at 2pm ET to walk through how Eugene and Springfield, Oregon got Flock Safety's license plate cameras out of their cities. Set a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Q7T...

Eugene paused its 57 Flock cameras in October 2025 and canceled the contract that December, after the police chief learned a camera had switched back on during the pause. Springfield ended its contract the same night. Rob co-founded Eyes Off Eugene-Springfield and works in software and network security, and his group got its hands on legally acquired Flock Falcon cameras. We'll get into what they found inside, from an exposed shell to an outdated Android build, and what it means that their FlockBlocker device can feed a camera fake images.

We're also covering why "we own the data" contract promises don't hold up, and why vendor lobbyists went after the end-to-end encryption definition in Oregon's SB 1516.

If your town just signed with Flock, this is the episode to send your city council.

Click through and set a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Q7T...

#FlockSafety #EyesOffEugene #LicensePlateReaders

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A court order lands at your VPN tomorrow. What do they hand over?

With most providers, the honest answer is whatever they promised not to keep. VPNs have handed over records they swore didn't exist.

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Live today at 2pm ET. Jess Miers is here for Part 2 of our Section 230 series, and we're taking on the question courts haven't settled: when a chatbot says something false that hurts someone, who gets sued? We'll also look at the Take It Down Act five months into FTC enforcement, and what a new AI immunity should look like.

Join us live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfeq...

#Section230 #GenerativeAI #FreeSpeech #Censorship

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

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Jess Miers joins us Saturday, November 7 at 2pm ET for Part 2 of our Section 230 series. Last week Eric Goldman covered where 230 came from and why Congress wants it gone. This week we get to the question nobody has answered yet: what happens to Section 230 when the speaker is an AI?
Click through and set a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfeq...

Jess is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law, and before academia she worked on technology law and policy at Google and Chamber of Progress. We talk about what content moderation looks like from the inside, how the Supreme Court's view of feeds as editorial fits with juries now calling those same feeds defective products, and what's happening on platforms five months into FTC enforcement of the Take It Down Act.

Then the big one. When a chatbot tells someone something false that hurts them, who should be liable: the company, the person who typed the prompt, or nobody? Courts are already wrestling with it in the Character.AI case, and AI answers now sit at the top of search results.

Click through and set a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfeq...

#Section230 #GenerativeAI #FreeSpeech

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Eric Goldman joins us this Saturday, October 31 at 2pm ET, to kick off our two-part Section 230 series.

Lawmakers in both parties want to sunset Section 230, and juries are now holding platforms liable for how their feeds are designed. Meanwhile the Supreme Court upheld Texas's porn ID law, Utah now makes Apple and Google verify ages at the app store, and Pornhub has pulled out of whole states rather than check IDs. Eric has been practicing internet law since before 230 existed, and his Technology & Marketing Law Blog has tracked 230 cases since 2005.

We get into what happens to a small hobby forum the day 230 is gone, why Eric calls these age laws "segregate-and-suppress," and what an age check would have to look like before he'd actually trust one.

If you've wondered why every site suddenly wants your ID, this episode explains who ends up paying for it.

Click through and set a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JIH...

#Section230 #AgeVerification #HideAndSpeak

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

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@GainSec joins us live on Hide & Speak this Saturday, October 24 at 2pm ET to walk through what he found when he bought used Flock Safety hardware and started taking it apart. Set a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXCEU...

Jon's Bird Hunting Season research covers Flock's license plate readers, compute boxes, and Raven gunshot detectors, and it turned up more than 50 issues. We'll get into what Flock's "physical access" response actually means for a camera bolted to a public pole, how a handful of exposed feeds turned into 67 live, unauthenticated streams, and what the leaked Flock firmware showed about which of his findings were ever fixed.

His work also came up at the recent Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Flock, a hearing Flock's CEO was invited to and didn't attend. Meanwhile, cities across the country are still voting on whether to keep these cameras. If you drive past one every day, you'll want to hear what's inside it.

Drop this on your calendar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXCEU...

#FlockSafety #ALPR #MassSurveillance

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

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Preston Byrne, 4chan's pro bono lead counsel against Ofcom and the primary author of the GRANITE Act, joins us on Hide & Speak this Saturday, October 17 at 2pm ET.
Set a reminder, see you live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTDw...

Ofcom fined 4chan £520,000, mostly for skipping age checks. 4chan sued in the US, and in September Judge Contreras dismissed the case on sovereign immunity grounds, while noting Ofcom would most likely have to come to a US court to collect. Preston answered the fines with the hamster emails, and we're getting the story behind them, including the drafts he didn't send.

We also get into why about 193 of the 197 US sites Ofcom sent orders to went along with them anyway, what a small American forum should do in the first 24 hours after a notice, and how the GRANITE bills (H.R. 10174, S. 5478, plus the state and model versions) would have changed 4chan's fight. Then the other direction: the Free Speech Act 2026, the bill Preston co-authored to repeal the Online Safety Act and give Britain its own First Amendment.

If you run a website, post on X, or just want to know how far a British regulator can reach into American speech, this one's for you.

Set a reminder, see you live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTDw...

#4chan #Ofcom #GRANITEAct

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

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A subpoena for vp.net/ user logs gets one answer: there's nothing there.

No connection logs, browsing history, or DNS queries stored, and Intel SGX hardware means it physically can't be.

Hardware, not policy.
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