"East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned."
"70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license."
"Not only do they attach strings to project funding such as this camera requirement in Richmond, they also finance many state and local surveillance programs outright."
"Last fall Amazon added capabilities that allow it to identify people in videos and follow their movements almost instantly."
"Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure."
"In February, the company insisted that all that stolen data didn’t include passport numbers. Except it did."
"Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use 'evidence-based, data-driven' policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime."
"A little-known service has been leaking the real-time locations of US cell phone users to anyone who takes the time to exploit an easily spotted bug in a free trial feature."
"Around a dozen Google employees have already quit over the company's involvement in an artificial intelligence drone program for the Pentagon called Project Maven."
"A former Missouri sheriff has been charged with using an online service operated by law enforcement contractor Securus to track cell phones illegally."