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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If he was white, they would have already told you he was white...

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The two gunmen who opened fire on Australia’s Bondi Beach where thousands of Jews were celebrating Hanukkah are believed to be a father-son duo who had a trove of legally-owned guns.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old accomplice are believed to be father and son, authorities said on Monday.

Together they allegedly murdered at least 15 people ranging in age from 10 to 87 years old, most of whom are believe to be Jewish.

They owned at least six guns between them, each of which were fully licensed.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
FBI Kash is confused again!?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They haven't named "Benjamin" as a suspect, and are still referring to him as a "person of interest".

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In case you haven't been paying attention up until now, Jaynez... Here in America, the news will IMMEDIATELY point out a criminal was white and put their picture up everywhere if they are white (and many times even if they aren't white, like Jake Tapper just did the other day), but if they know the person wasn't white then nobody mentions race at all and unless it was a heinous crime, you'll never see their photographs in the media at all.

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We're done with this shit. It's been going on for decades.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Brown University removes Mustapha Kharbouch's student profile amid search for shooting suspect
https://news.meaww.com/brown-university-removes-mustapha-kharbouchs-st
udent-profile-amid-search-for-shooting-suspect

Lebanon News

Mustapha Kharbouch Identified as Prime Suspect in Brown University Campus Shooting, Authorities Say
https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/mustapha-kharbouch/894977/

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They haven't named "Benjamin" as a suspect, and are still referring to him as a "person of interest".

There are over 150 video cameras in the vicinity, owned by both the university and in a network of local establishments and their own cameras, and all we get to see is a 4-second clip of footage so low quality it would make Bigfoot blush? Of a dude fully clothed in winter weather with his back completely turned to the camera the whole way?

Nobody has any cell phone footage in 4k? We're talking an entire college campus of young 20-somethings and a huge amount of noise that didn't happen in a bubble and not one person among them was brave and smart enough to grab footage without being seen? Not a single photograph?

How do you even detain anybody at all if that 4-second clip they're showing us is all the info you've got?

Unless he killed everybody in that room, they know what he looks like.


In case you haven't been paying attention up until now, Jaynez... Here in America, the news will IMMEDIATELY point out a criminal was white and put their picture up everywhere if they are white (and many times even if they aren't white, like Jake Tapper just did the other day), but if they know the person wasn't white then nobody mentions race at all and unless it was a heinous crime, you'll never see their photographs in the media at all.

That's why the Florida sheriff coming out and putting the face of the 8 black criminals from out of state was such a breath of fresh air. We're done with this shit. It's been going on for decades.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

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Dear university administrators and trustees,

We are human rights organizations writing to express concerns about campus surveillance tools and policies that have the potential to fuel attacks on free expression and academic freedom across the country. Since January 2025, the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions, revoking international students’ visas and threatening universities with funding cuts unless they agree to suppress speech on campus. The president of Princeton University has described this assault as “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s.” As university leaders take steps to defend their communities, it is imperative that data minimization, data privacy, and the dismantling of harmful surveillance systems are prioritized alongside other protective measures. Without immediate action, surveillance tools and the data they amass will be used to supercharge the virulent attacks on campus communities.

Protest, free speech, academic freedom, and press freedom are indispensable in democracies, and are even more important as fascism looms. University campuses must be spaces where people feel safe to speak truth to power, express dissenting opinions, report freely on campus issues, and organize for social change.

For years, researchers and tech experts have warned about the ways surveillance technologies are fundamentally at odds with the principles of freedom of expression, and democracy broadly. Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists’ right to anonymity––a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation. They are also being used to monitor students’ online activity, forcing students to self-censor and contributing to a broader chilling effect on online speech and journalism.

Beyond stifling free expression, surveillance technologies are often deeply flawed and biased. They disproportionately misidentify people of color, women, children, nonbinary individuals, and people with disabilities—errors that can lead to wrongful disciplinary actions and false arrests. Far from making campuses safer, these tools can bring about serious harm, potentially with life-altering consequences.

Now, in the face of Trump’s attacks on U.S. universities, the stakes of invasive tracking of students have never been higher. The troves of data amassed through surveillance tools can be accessed by agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to track, intimidate, and disappear campus community members who have engaged in constitutionally protected speech. These attacks are part and parcel of the administration’s broader campaign to criminalize immigrants and the expression of dissent––a campaign enabled by nationwide surveillance infrastructure.

As university administrators, you have the responsibility to safeguard your campus community and uphold the constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms of students, faculty, and staff––especially in the face of the anti-rights campaign led by the Trump administration. To stand against these threats, we urge you to adopt the following practices:

Refuse to cooperate or share data with law enforcement agencies: Refuse to cooperate with local, state, and federal lawmakers, law enforcement agents, and immigration authorities seeking to surveil, detain, and deport students, faculty, or staff. This includes prohibiting university staff from voluntarily sharing campus community members’ personal data with law enforcement, especially data that can aid in the targeting of activists, like immigration status and records of disciplinary actions. This also includes discontinuing any default data sharing agreements with campus police and local police departments.
Secure data with end-to-end encryption: Secure student, faculty, and staff data with the highest levels of protection, including end-to-end encryption. Mandate training for university staff on data security practices.
Delete sensitive data: Purge any data collected on students, staff, and faculty that is not essential to the functioning of the university––including data that can be used to fuel the targeting of protesters, immigrants, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Delete video footage and photos of campus protesters acquired through surveillance cameras and ID swipe records that identify student and staff movements across campus.
Dismantle surveillance: Discontinue the use of invasive technologies that collect sensitive data. This includes tools and practices such as ID swipe tracking, social media monitoring, facial recognition tools, license plate readers, motion and heat sensors, WiFi vendors that collect people’s location data, and biometric online exam proctoring programs. The data amassed by these tools may be weaponized by local, state, and federal agencies to target activists, immigrants, journalists, and other vulnerable groups on campus.
Reject mask restriction policies: Mask restrictions fundamentally threaten free speech and increase the criminalization of protestors. These policies also jeopardize the safety of the entire campus community by exposing people to the ongoing threats of COVID, Long COVID, and other public health issues. Universities must oppose proposed restrictions on masking, and retain COVID safety policies that allow students to remain masked.
Harm reduction related to doxxing: Provide campus community members with information about data deletion services (i.e. services that remove personal data and other information from data broker databases) and educational resources that allow students, staff, and faculty to proactively protect themselves against doxxing. Also provide tools and services to mitigate harm once doxxing occurs.

Universities must adopt these measures as the baseline for preventing the weaponization of their communities’ data. Universities should also make every possible effort to engage with students, faculty, and staff on enacting broader campus safety measures and demands. This could include the establishment of clear policies delineating how community members are expected to respond to ICE presence on campus, as well as the implementation of strong protections for journalists’ reporting on rights infringements against student/faculty protestors and other vulnerable groups (whether by ICE, administrators, or other actors). It could also include the introduction of secure and privacy-preserving remote learning/teaching options that allow faculty and students to stay at home to protect themselves, among other common sense measures.

Campus surveillance and invasive data collection directly serve the forces seeking to suppress speech and erode the spaces universities provide for political exchange and critical thought. You have the power to resist these threats. In doing so, data minimization, data security, and the dismantling of harmful surveillance systems must take on a central focus. Defending privacy is not only essential for fostering trust within your community, but also for upholding the university’s fundamental role and responsibility to protect free expression and academic freedom––two key pillars of our democracy.

Signed,

18 Million Rising
Access Now
Advocacy for Principled Action in Government
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Amnesty International USA
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Security, Race and Rights
Center on Resilience and Digital Justice
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
COVID Safe Campus
Defending Rights & Dissent
Demand Progress
Dissenters
Eko
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Fight for the Future
Free Press
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Kairos
MPower Change
MPower Change Action Fund
Muslim Advocates
Muslim Justice League
New America’s Open Technology Institute
Palestine Legal
Repro Uncensored
Restore The Fourth
Secure Justice
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
Tech for Palestine
X-Lab

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Rights groups call on university leaders to defend their communities against the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks by rolling back surveillance.

Today Fight for the Future sent a joint letter to the administrators and trustees of 60 top universities in the U.S. demanding they roll back surveillance and invasive data collection on their campuses. The letter was signed by more than 30 rights groups––including Amnesty International USA, Center for Constitutional Rights, Access Now, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)––and is being delivered to university administrators as they revisit and refresh a range of campus policies for the upcoming school year, including protest policies.

The organizations assert that invasive data harvesting practices and the tracking of campus community members are fundamentally at odds with freedom of expression, and they urge universities to:

Refuse to cooperate or share data with law enforcement agencies seeking to target international students, activists, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups.
Expunge unnecessary data that has been collected and retained on faculty, students, and staff; secure any remaining data with end-to-end encryption.
Discontinue the use of invasive technologies and practices, including ID swipe tracking, online activity monitoring, facial recognition programs, license plate readers, motion and heat sensors, WiFi vendors that collect location data, and biometric online exam proctoring programs.
Reject mask restriction policies.
Provide community members with information on doxxing and measures they can take to protect themselves from doxxing.

“Spying on students for engaging in peaceful protest and expression is a clear attack on Constitutionally protected rights and has no place in higher education,” said Michael De Dora, US Advocacy Manager at Access Now. “Surveillance of students for exercising their basic rights threatens privacy, chills freedom of speech, and erodes trust. University administrators must reject these harmful practices and affirm that dissent and protest are not only essential to learning, but protected rights that demand firm, transparent safeguards.”

“Rather than making communities safer, campus surveillance policies play into the hands of federal agents carrying out the Trump administration’s unjust targeting of international students, immigrants, and activists by supplying location data, names, faces, and other personal tracking details,” said Leila Nashashibi, Campaigner at Fight for the Future. “If university leaders are serious about defending their communities against these attacks, there are practical steps they can take right now as part of their broader efforts to fight back: data minimization, improving data privacy, and the dismantling of surveillance systems.”

The letter was sent to the 60 universities that are being threatened with funding cuts if they fail to suppress protests on campus––an attack on higher education that the president of Princeton University described as “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s.” While many of these universities have spoken out strongly against the Trump administration’s assault on academic freedom and free expression, few have taken concrete steps to defend the rights of their students and faculty, including their right to privacy.

Accompanying the joint letter, Fight for the Future and COVID Safe Campus recently published a scorecard that tracks university policies on masking––an emerging “battleground policy” that has become a focal point for university administrators seeking to crack down on campus protests. The scorecard demonstrates that some universities, including Georgetown, have recently ratcheted up mask ban policies as a concession to the Department of Education and organizations like the Anti-Defamation League that oppose pro-Palestine student movements.

Recipients of the letter have been requested to respond with information about their current surveillance-related policies and positions by Sept 30, 2025. As Fight for the Future receives more information from administrators, we hope to expand our public policy tracking to include campuses’ use of tools like facial recognition and their regulations on data sharing with law enforcement. This would build on years of campaigning alongside university students and faculty members against surveillance on campus. Past initiatives include a scorecard tracking campuses’ use of facial recognition in 2020/2021, and a letter from more than 150 faculty members denouncing the use of facial recognition on campus.

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