lawenforcement
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Licence Plates: The Next Privacy Nightmare in Post-Roe America
Before an injustice becomes a reality, when the consequences are all very abstract, it can be easy to doubt and defer grasping how inevitable they are. Some people will write off what is plainly obvious to everyone around them as the misgivings of pearl-clutching doomsayers, the fallout of overactive imaginations. Thankfully, reality does wonders for…
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Advocacy Groups Demand Amazon, MGM Cancel Creepy ‘Ring Nation’ Surveillance Reality Show
40 privacy and racial justice groups signed an open letter demanding MGM Studios cancel Ring Nation, a dystopian reality television show based on security footage captured from Ring home cameras. The groups warned airing the show risks “normalizing and promoting Amazon Ring’s dangerous network of surveillance cameras,” and could put vulnerable communities at heightened privacy…
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Surveillance Is Getting Less, Not More, ‘Orwellian’
“If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behaviour changes. We begin to do less. We begin to think about things less. We begin to modify how we think.” – Tim Cook
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San Diego Citizens Wrest Control of Surveillance Tech Away From Police
San Diego is joining a growing list of cities taking official action against the unregulated use of emergent police surveillance technologies.