AI-empowered surveillance tools (even 'robo-dogs') are policing state borders, furthering systemic discrimination practices and contributing to loss of life

Read Petra Molnar on 'The Deadly Digital Frontiers at the Border' TIME 👇

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✨I am over the moon that my book, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable, has won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel award! ✨

The award is meant to recognize works “exemplary in fostering the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system'...1/5

In Atlanta, the George Floyd demonstrations of four years ago are being used as evidence of illegal gang activity — and the activists of today could be next. trib.al/qyPw0UQ

On the day of publication for #TheWallsHaveEyes 📖 grateful for the opportunity to share a few words in TIME Ideas about the US/Mexico border

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas. cbsn.ws/4anlkqx

Here's a great summary of last night's ACLU of Northern CA event that I spoke at about police surveillance and resistance.

santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/san…

Big shout out to Elaine Frantz for this amazing review of my book.

ICYMI: EFF is hiring a Social Media and Video Manager to supersize our presence on social media and do some incredible activism work to shape technology policy and fight to protect civil liberties. Please share!

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How the Surveillance of Immigrants Remade American Policing

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“Facial recognition still gets things wrong, especially in reference to Black men and women,” EFF’s @MGuariglia told HorizonMass, and “police around the country have demonstrated they can’t be trusted to do follow-up investigations.” horizonmass.news/2024/05/20/fac…

'Community bail funds, which have served as an important mutual aid strategy for Black communities and racial justice activists, are now functionally illegal in Georgia'

Really cannot wait for this one. Talk about essential

👁️Big Brother is not only watching you—he’s identifying you.

Police & private companies in the UK are using facial recognition tech to monitor & track us like never before.

This technology is a huge threat to our privacy. There's no place for this invasive tech in Britain.

Excited we'll be putting out a 50th anniversary edition of the Church Committee Report for next year, in part because it contains the government's full playbook of how to interrupt, discredit, and lock up protest movements and the civil liberty arguments against those tactics.

🚨NEW REPORT 🚨In 'Raiding the Genome: How the U.S. Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing,' we investigated a federal program under which DHS agents take our most sensitive information: DNA.

Here’s what we found 🧵

raidingthegenome.org

This starts in about 20 minutes!

Everyone has something “to hide!” Or at least something they’d rather not have to answer for. That’s why location privacy, even on a small scale, really does matter!