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Long-Distance Search Warrant Power Coming Dec. 1
"Google Law Enforcement and Information Security Director Richard Salgado said the Department of Justice has made assurances about what it would do concern…
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CIA-backed surveillance software was marketed in public schools wanting to monitor students' social media posts
""Discovering that Geofeedia was not only being used by social media sites to help police spy on activists of color was disturbing enough," said…
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Racial Disparities in Police 'Stingray' Surveillance, Mapped
"“We have to ask the question: ‘What are you doing with all that data?’,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice. “We don’t know—that’s part of…
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Activists, the police may be watching your Facebook page
"“At every protest, we assume we’re being spied on, because we know we are,” said Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice acti…
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Lawmakers try to stop mass hacking of Americans' computers by feds
""The use of various forms of (hacking) . . . are more invasive than other searches because they often have unknown, widespread, and sometimes destruc…
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says
"“Police spying on social media has a disproportionate impact on black people,” said Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice,…
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As License-Plate Tracking Increases, Privacy Advocates Press for More Regulation
"Nevertheless, there are some avenues for reform. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration offers grants for states to buy ALPRs for “highway saf…
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Crime-prediction tool PredPol amplifies racially biased policing, study shows
"Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice, says Oakland's legislators don't care that PredPol hasn't prov…
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Cities Fight Domestic Dragnet, Demand Local Police Disclose Use of Spy Gear
""In Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, Oakland, South Carolina, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Baton Rouge and now Charlotte, amongst other cities,…
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U.S. cities push for local laws to oversee police surveillance
""(We need) to build the legislative power of local communities to prevent high-tech racial profiling and policing from turning our neighborhoods into…
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How Cops Have Turned Baltimore into a Surveillance State
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California Davis who specializes in policing and technology, told me that while police secrecy is noth…
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5 Things to Look for at Black Hat USA '16 if You Can't Go
"3. How to push back against law enforcement requests Crypto Policy Project attorneys Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn want people to know how to re…