@ProfFerguson

Law Professor. Author, “The Rise of Big Data Policing” & “Why Jury Duty Matters” & “The Law of Law School.” Tech and criminal justice.

 Washington, DC
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Joined February 2013
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Bolts@boltsmagJun 19
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson says transparency around surveillance technology is essential: “We should not be asking police what technologies are in use, we should know and have approved of them before our tax dollars were used to buy them.” boltsmag.org/everything-ever…

“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered

A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.

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Bolts@boltsmagJul 6
Do police need a warrant to access your gmail account? What local laws could restrict data tracking? How do other countries protect data privacy? Our Q&A with legal expert Andrew Guthrie Ferguson answers these and other questions on police surveillance. boltsmag.org/everything-ever…

“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered

A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.

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Bolts@boltsmagJul 28
“There is nothing you do in a digital world that cannot be obtained with a judicial warrant,” says legal scholar Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. “All of it can be obtained by police seeking to prosecute you.” boltsmag.org/everything-ever…

“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered

A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.

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John Wrench
@JohnWrench_Oct 6
Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument in a case about whether using ALPRs (Flock and Motorola) was a Fourth Amendment "search." The gov't says "no" for two reasons. The oral argument shows there are serious problems with both arguments. 🧵
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Drew Harwell@drewharwellOct 3
Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ... Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?" washingtonpost.com/technolog…

A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules

A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.

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Joseph Cox
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New: a surveillance company is telling cops it wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras. Flock doesn't do face rec, but that doesn't stop other companies doing it. "This is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be" 404media.co/surveillance-com…

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

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Ben Conarck@conarckSep 12
An unusual moment in policing is taking shape: police unions, civil rights groups, conservative politicians and grassroots activists find themselves in an unlikely alliance calling for rapidly expanding surveillance tech to be reined in. A “tipping point,” says @ProfFerguson.
Juan@juanbennjrSep 12
Resistance to Flock has made its way to the DMV. In Washington, the head of the city police union said MPD used the cameras to investigate sworn officers. And officials in Alexandria signaled this week they don’t want Flock in their city. w/ @conarck washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…

D.C. police union, Alexandria leaders voice concerns over Flock technology

The head of the police union is calling on the D.C. Council to regulate how the license-plate readers are used in the nation's capital.

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Dan Epps@daneppsSep 12
If true, and especially if this is becoming routine, very troubling. Curious what lawyers/law profs would do in this situation. SCOTUS has never weighed in on this practice. Thoughts, @OrinKerr, others? reddit.com/r/GlobalEntry/s/B…
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You’ve probably read the headlines about Flock Cameras. But they are just the most visible frontier in an era of AI-powered policing. Right now, police are adopting AI tools at a staggering rate and using them to build an efficient, centralized surveillance infrastructure. On this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, @tristanharris speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @garanceburke and law professor @ProfFerguson about how police are using AI today, what we can expect in the near future, and what protections we need to create now, before it's too late. Check it out: Watch - bit.ly/4dsrtG0 Listen - apple.co/4A59Ky3 Read - bit.ly/4xdyKk7
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Emily Galvin-Almanza@GalvinAlmanzaSep 8
ANDROMEDA DIAZ AND THE REASONABLE DOUBT IS OUT TODAY!!! Anywhere you like to buy books, you can buy a copy of this book that is not only a twisty mystery, but will teach your children how to think like public defenders. Sharp critical thinking, deep empathy. LFG.
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Media Alliance@twrlingAug 26
As usual, John Oliver is right on point. #surveillance youtu.be/lnBPhelCdWE

Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the tools police are using to keep track of c...

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Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehroAug 19
NEW: Flock says its cameras don’t identify or track people We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. wired.com/story/flock-safety…

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license...

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Privacy just made prime time. Watch John Oliver highlight Andrew Ferguson's Your Data Will Be Used Against You. youtu.be/lnBPhelCdWE?si=odMR… linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Jim Harper@Jim_HarperAug 6
Running property myinformationismyproperty.co…

My Information is My Property | Protect Privacy, Take Action Now

Support privacy rights with the Surveillance Accountability Act. Learn how it aims to limit government data collection and protect your freedoms. Join the movement today.

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Sam Biddle@samfbiddleAug 6
This is a big deal for the 4th Amendment. Will be interesting if similar thinking re: innocent people being swept up in mass surveillance tools is ever applied to, say, Flock.
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@scotus_wireAug 5
🚨 A federal judge ruled that "tower dump" warrants, which allow police to obtain records for every cellphone that connected to nearby cell towers around a crime scene, are per se unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment as general warrants. Thanks to @SeamusHughes for fighting to unseal these records.
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“The public conversation comes last, not first—and only much later do we start to fully understand the damage these technologies can do.” Thank you, @iamjohnoliver for sounding the alarm on #MassSurveillance. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPhelC…

Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the tools police are using to keep track of c...

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Andrew G. Ferguson@ProfFergusonAug 3
Ok book lovers and friends. If I haven’t convinced you yet to buy “Your Data Will Be Used Against You” can the combination of John Oliver and BookTV be enough. Banner day for the book. (Also the issues are super important to our future).
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Andrew G. Ferguson@ProfFergusonJul 8
On marketplace tech talking about the Fourth Amendment and how “Your Data Will Be Used Against You” … marketplace.org/episode/2026…

Digital personal data is protected by the Fourth Amendment

The Supreme Court finished its term by reinforcing the fact that consumers' online information is constitutionally protected against the government. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, law professor at George...

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Sheldon Evans@prawfsevans777Jul 21
ICE obtained Medicaid data it wasn't legally authorized to have — then shared it with Palantir. Immigration has long been an undervalued vehicle for mass surveillance, and now they are coming after your medical data. npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-589…

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

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Jason Koebler@jason_koeblerJul 20
New Orleans published a document saying its police could put weapons on their drones, deleted it, now says it was a mistake. But it aligns exactly with when the drone manufacturer began musing about allowing police to weaponize their drones: 404media.co/new-orleans-cops…

New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones

Cops and drone companies seem increasingly eager to put weapons on their drones.

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