How the Feds Use Transportation Funds to Spy on You
"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."
"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."
"'I was buying eggs. I don't think that's suspicious,' Ana Suda said after last week's incident with a Border Patrol agent."
"Sessions’s child-removal policy actually extends the callousness of current American penal practices."
"The Corker-Kaine AUMF is beyond dangerous. It is unconstitutional. And it is set up to never end."
"The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents."
"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 seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal."
"The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing."