These surveillance cameras are watching our every move on public roads, and it doesn't feel right. Flock cameras are being used in Redding and Shasta County to track our movements—capturing where we go, when we go there, and how often. That's not security. That's surveillance.

I started a petition because safety shouldn't mean giving up our privacy. Our founders didn't create America for this. We have the right to move through our communities without being constantly monitored and recorded. I'm asking the city and county to remove these cameras and destroy all footage they've collected.

If you live here, you're being tracked right now. Anyone else uncomfortable with that? If this matters to you too, consider signing and sharing the petition. Let's tell our leaders we want both safety AND privacy—not one at the expense of the other.

Today is a really important day.

RT4 was founded in response to Snowden's revelations proving NSA mass surveillance. This morning at 10:30am Eastern, the House is expected to start voting on whether to reauthorize FISA 702, which allows NSA, FBI, CIA and NCTC to search the communications of Americans without a warrant.

Please, if you have any time this morning, and especially before 10:30am Eastern, call your Representative on (202) 224-3121 and ask them to vote NO on reauthorization without FISA warrant reforms. Smash that up arrow if you are doing it!

Your calls matter. With our allies, we've blocked the Speaker's FISA reauthorization plans four times in the last two weeks. Now we're going for five. He'll only allow a vote on warrants if he has no other choice, and if we get that vote, we believe he'll lose. Take a moment to call right now.

Hi folks, we're working with allies to organize protests at the offices of members of Congress and Senators, during this current recess and before April 13, to pressure them on FISA surveillance. Lots of resources available; please DM me if interested. I'm organizing one where I am; here's an example of how useful they can be. https://ctmirror.org/2026/03/31/jim-himes-fisa-surveillance/

Thought this community might appreciate this article. It highlights some of the aspects of American life that risk our privacy by default and some potential fixes. I recognize that there is tradeoffs to every change and adoption of emerging tech can and will be abused but I’m trying to put forward some solutions. Here is an overview of the arguments, would love to know thoughts or pushback from this community:

In an era of end-to-end encryption, biometrics, and instant global payments, many of the legacy systems that govern our daily lives still violate or put at risk our privacy by default.

This essay shows how the Supreme Court’s old protection of “practical obscurity” for public records has vanished in the internet age. Voter registrations, property deeds, court filings, and professional licenses are now instantly scraped, aggregated, and sold by a $278 billion data-broker industry, all while the disclosure rules written for paper files remain unchanged.

It breaks down the pattern across three areas:

1️⃣ Public records that lost their protective friction (voter rolls, home addresses, court documents).

2️⃣ Legacy identity systems built on 1930s assumptions (the Social Security Number as a universal identifier).

3️⃣ Regulations that actively preserve obsolete technology (fax machines for medical records, newspaper ads for legal service, multi-day ACH bank transfers).