"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon Epstein, of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Opposition to data centers and Flock cameras tells us something important about why normalization isn’t inevitable, write Evan Selinger and Divya Ramjee.

Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything

The Boston Globe has been covering debates over Cambridge’s use of ShotSpotter, which is marketed as gunshot detection technology. The Politics and Policy Research Lab that I direct at Boston University just published an open letter arguing that its coverage amounts to copaganda.  Here’s an executive summary... The post The Boston Globe’s coverage of ShotSpotter amounts to copaganda appeared first on Cambridge | Somerville Independent.

ACLU responds to surveillance company Flock's announcement of changes to license plate reader system.

In our analysis of conflicts of interest in PubMed, we used an LLM to trace relationships between academics and companies – helping us discover more ties.

The technology has been shown not to prevent gun violence or improve public safety.

Surveillance technology creates and perpetuates injustices across our legal system. This toolkit will help level the playing field for criminal defense attorneys and their clients.

Advocates say it’s too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

Here’s how you can stop or limit the use of Flock’s ALPR mass surveillance technology in your neighborhood

Strong, enforceable privacy law is an essential ingredient to getting our nation and our democracy back on track.

Supporters of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection technology made emotional pleas Monday and tried a variety of ploys to save its use for Cambridge police, but city councillors voted for the city manager to turn off the system and remove its microphones within 90 days. With a community debrief... The post Cambridge vote calls for ShotSpotter gunfire detection to be turned off and dismantled within 90 days appeared first on Cambridge | Somerville Independent.

When properly regulated, speed cameras don't pose the same threats to privacy as license-plate-reader surveillance

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

Maine residents allege that DHS agents threatened to place them on a domestic terrorist watchlist after scanning their faces and license plates.

Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents accessing local data are driving these debates.

The level of coordination among inauthentic online agents is unprecedented.

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.

As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Protesters are using social media and encrypted messaging apps to track ICE vehicles and agents, while hackers have targeted ICE’s surveillance arsenal.

A conversation with George Washington University Law School scholar Spencer Overton about his forthcoming paper, "Ethnonationalism by Algorithm."

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s gloriously messy, madcap roller coaster ride through modern America, objects in the rear view may go out of sight, but they don’t disappear.

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

Cambridge drops Flock Safety after company acknowledges it installed cameras against the orders of the city council.