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Surveillance
Surveillance Technologies Don’t Create Safety. They Intensify State Violence.
Surveillance technologies create a dragnet to monitor nearly everyone and collect data on all of our behaviors.
Border Industry Peddles Robot Dogs and AI Surveillance Amid End of Title 42
Blocks from a migrant camp in El Paso, execs at the Border Security Expo hawked dystopian tech designed to repress them.
The War on Terror Has Not Waned. It’s Used Against Black and Brown Communities.
A network of 80 surveillance-oriented “fusion centers” around the U.S. are eroding our privacy and civil rights.
Israel Is Using a Vast Network of Biometric Cameras to Terrorize Palestinians
The facial recognition surveillance system violates Palestinians’ human rights to freedom of movement and privacy.
NYC Police and Landlords Are Turning to Surveillance Tech to Expand Their Reach
The city has long been a testing ground for surveillance tools as a mechanism for social control.
Policing Does Not Have Problems — It Is the Problem
Policing is neither reformable nor redeemable.
ICE Has Quietly Been Forcing Schools and Abortion Clinics to Share Private Data
Since 2008, ICE has spent more than $2.8 billion on new surveillance, data collection and data-sharing initiatives.
Restrict Act Critics Call the Far-Reaching “TikTok Ban” Bill a “Patriot Act 2.0”
The bill has drawn criticism from both left and right, and privacy experts say it legalizes unprecedented surveillance.
Warren, Sanders Want to Ban Racist Facial Recognition Tools From Government Use
Research has shown that facial recognition technology is often used to perpetuate racism.
US-China Tensions Escalate Amid Mutual Accusations of Surveillance
Historian of modern China, Jake Werner, discusses the need for deescalation and how war is not inevitable.