theintercept.com
An Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill With a Cruel New Twist
A new Kansas law lets those "aggrieved" by the presence of a trans person in a bathroom to file a civil suit for monetary damages.
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"Kansas's new anti-trans bathroom bill adds a dangerous twist: a bounty hunter provision."
"The law would permit private citizens to sue and seek monetary reward based on claiming to encounter a trans person in the bathroom."
#Kansas #USA #Bathrooms #Identification #Surveillance
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"Boston-area organizers are raising concerns and demanding answers amid confusion over a new startup accelerator spearheaded by Israel's largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center."
#Massachusetts #USA #Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Surveillance #Healthcare #Technology #Military #Genocide
prismreports.org
Activists protest Israeli AI accelerator opening in Massachusetts
Organizers warn of the harms of Israeli AI technology in campaign against partnership between Massachusetts and Sheba Medical Center.
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"These days, Jade Helm isn't talked about much because nothing happened."
"Eleven years past schedule, Trump and a docile American right wing have finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency."
#Minnesota #USA #Surveillance #Military #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
theintercept.com
Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency
Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they're cheering it.
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"Police officers are being told to 'be as vague as permissible' about why they are using the Flock surveillance system in order to not leak sensitive information via public records requests."
#Texas #Georgia #Illinois #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
www.404media.co
Police Told to Be 'as Vague as Permissible' About Why They Use Flock
The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.
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DHS "now says that two weeks of critical surveillance footage from within [ICE's] Broadview detention center wasn't actually lost in a 'system crash,' but rather, was never recorded in the first place."
#Illinois #USA #Incarceration #Surveillance #Courts #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
www.404media.co
DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter
Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.
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"Jordanian law enforcement used Israeli-made technology to crack the phones of activists protesting Israel's assault on civilians in Gaza."
"Cellebrite's Universal Forensic Extraction Device had been used."
#Jordan #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Protest #Genocide
www.occrp.org
Jordan Used Israeli Tech to Crack Phones of Gaza War Protesters: Report
A report by The Citizen Lab shows that Jordanian authorities used technology made by the Israeli company Cellebrite to extract data from the phones of activists.
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"[S]urprising surveillance tool pointed investigators toward Perez-Lugones: an office printer with a photographic memory."
"[S]everal commercial systems allow workplace administrators to view the contents of printed documents."
#USA #Media #Surveillance
theintercept.com
FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You
Investigators identified a suspect, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, because his employer could view the contents of files printed at its facility.
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"Leaders praise King's dream while avoiding his demands."
"They quote his words while rejecting his method."
"They honor his memory while reproducing the conditions that made him vulnerable to state violence in the first place."
#Tennessee #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Military
truthout.org
MLK's Struggle Against Policing and Surveillance Is Still Alive in Memphis Today
From surveillance of racial justice organizing to terror under Trump’s Memphis task force, we face ongoing repression.
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"History becomes scenery."
"Agents of an institution that once treated King as an enemy of the state now blissfully occupy his memorial space."
"This is how power often behaves: it absorbs history, flattens it, and renders it inert."
#Tennessee #USA #Media #Protest #Surveillance #Policing
mlk50.com
An unfinished mandate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy
A photographer explains why his image of an FBI agent posing for a picture in front of the Lorraine Hotel challenges us to remember what power wants us to forget.
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"If Project NOLA decides to, they could easily share these camera streams with facial recognition with ICE or CBP, facilitating the kidnapping and racial profiling of people of color."
"Surveillance will never bring safety."
#Louisiana #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Slavery
truthout.org
Battle Over Facial Recognition in New Orleans Will Shape Future of Surveillance
Edith Romero, an organizer in New Orleans, discusses the dangers of the growing surveillance state.
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"A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details of millions of surveillance targets."
HaveIBeenFlocked.com "allows people to search individual license plates to determine if they have been run through the Flock system."
#USA #Surveillance #Technology #Policing
www.404media.co
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
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"I was never convicted."
"I still have never had my parental rights reinstated or been reunited with Mansa and Kimoni."
"[O]ur family policing system does not protect children, but inflicts needless trauma that destroys familial bonds."
#NorthCarolina #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Incarceration
inquest.org
CPS Stole My Children
When I was falsely accused of abuse, North Carolina took away my sons. I was exonerated but I still may never see them again.
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"UK government planned 'covert' measures to monitor 'everything' which was said and written by Irish republican hunger strikers in prison in 1980."
Goal: "put pressure on the strikers when they were most 'vulnerable.'"
#NorthernIreland #Ireland #UK #Protest #Food #Media #Surveillance #Incarceration
www.declassifieduk.org
UK plotted 'covert' measures against Irish republican hunger strikers
Newly declassified files expose array of actions taken by UK government to bring end to hunger strike in 1980
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"Border Patrol official has leaked files."
"ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence."
"[P]lainclothes agents have been [.] in transport vans [.] and detention cells to gather [.] intelligence."
#USA #Whistleblowing #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
www.commondreams.org
'Part of a Larger War': Whistleblower Exposes ICE Effort to Spy on Immigrants—and Americans
"The ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence... on antifa, on the radical left... and anyone else they consider terrorists," said journalist Ken Klippenstein.
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"A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then yelled at her on the phone when she told him she had evidence that exonerated her."
#Colorado #USA #Surveillance #Technology #Policing
www.404media.co
Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.
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Alberta government's overdose "app triggered EMS dispatch just fifty times in four years."
"In comparison, supervised consumption sites in Alberta have registered more than 40,000 adverse events."
#Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Surveillance #Technology
drugdatadecoded.ca
Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption
Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.14 percent of the ministry's under-reported dispatches for opioid toxicity in that period.
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"Elbit's not going to suddenly stop being Elbit if we go and yell at them."
"But this other target, the landlord, is probably more movable and more vulnerable."
#NorthCarolina #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #UK #Protest #Military #Weapons #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Genocide
prismreports.org
Elbit subsidiary empties out Raleigh offices after protest campaign, activists say
Logos Technologies, a subsidiary of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, appears to have vacated its North Carolina offices, according to activists.
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"Organizers in cities across the country have launched Eject Elbit, a coordinated campaign against Capital One's partnership with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems."
#USA #Israel #WestBank #Gaza #Palestine #Apartheid #Surveillance #Censorship #Military #Protest #Weapons #Genocide
prismreports.org
Campaign against Capital One targets partnership with Elbit
Capital One is among the banks that have loaned $545 million total to Elbit Systems, a supplier of over 80% of weapons to the Israeli military
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"Privacy is the power to selectively reveal yourself."
"[C]an you beat face recognition?"
"[Y]es, and the easiest way is with a Covid mask."
#USA #Surveillance #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
www.404media.co
The State of Anti-Surveillance Design
The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet.
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"ICE and the Israeli army are using the same playbook because they are born of the same system of state violence and white-supremacy."
"[W]e must take freedom into our own hands."
#Minnesota #USA #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #Military
mondoweiss.net
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook
Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure exists to ensure those agents never face meaningful consequences for murder.
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"A military contractor with a lineage going back to the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater will help [ICE] track down a list of 1.5 million targeted immigrants."
"In 2007, Blackwater mercenaries massacred 14 civilians in Baghdad."
#USA #Iraq #Military #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
theintercept.com
Blackwater Successor Hunts Immigrants for ICE
Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince's mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter.
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"[B]roader use of border crossings and airports as venues to facilitate greater targeting of activists."
"Martinez advocates for device preparation [..], offline solutions [..], keeping quiet [..] and being aware of your risk profile."
#Georgia #USA #Protest #Surveillance #Technology #Policing
unicornriot.ninja
Atlanta Activist's Arrest Underscores Search, Surveillance Powers of Border Agencies
Atlanta locals say that Tunick's detainment at the border and subsequent arrest is part of an ongoing repression against political dissidents and activists of the Stop Cop City movement.
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"10 companies have [..] made over $1 million to date — and stand to make over $1 billion by the contract's end in 2027."
"[P]rivate sector 'skip tracing' services, where corporate investigators use [..] surveillance to track immigrants" for ICE.
#USA #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
theintercept.com
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE's deportation machine.
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"Canada is one of Palantir's top funders."
"Public Sector Pension Investment Board and the Canadian Pension Plan are major shareholders."
"[I]ncentive for governments to look the other way. Jeopardize oversight? That might hurt pension returns."
#Ontario #Canada #Surveillance #Technology #Policing
ricochet.media
When a company names itself after a mythical foreboding object — take it as a warning
Peter Thiel's Palantir borrowed its name from The Lord of the Rings, and two decades later, it's living up to the metaphor by quietly embedding itself in the machinery of government.
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