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NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws
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Dutch police collecting demonstrators' personal data on a large scale
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Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal acts is unconstitutional
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Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
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Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
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San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time
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Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data
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Mayor Breed withdraws proposal to gut city’s surveillance oversight law
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It’s not easy to control police use of tech, even with a law
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LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
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Surveillance Under Surveillance
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Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
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Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan
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DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance
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Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear
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Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find
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Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds
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Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
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Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it
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Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr
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Atlas of Surveillance
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Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
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Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
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NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech
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Nextdoor ends its program for forwarding suspicions to police
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Show HN: I scraped local court records to find dirty cops
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Surveillance plane starts flying over Baltimore
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LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA
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The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
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The wear patterns of jeans aren’t good forensic evidence
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San Diego Awarded GE Mass Surveillance Contract Without Oversight
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DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak
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New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases
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Palantir’s User Manual for Cops
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An entrepreneur wants to track the residents of a high-crime American community
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IBM and the Holocaust (2017)
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Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database
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FamilyTreeDNA: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give FBI Access to Your DNA
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San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
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One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
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An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech that Tracks Almost Every American
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Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising
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Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans
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Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood
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NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
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Dubai Police now using Crime Prediction software
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Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras
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Campaign in Oakland pushing for greater control of police surveillance
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Watched: Police are stockpiling databases with personal information
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Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients
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ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Distributed to Families
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New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours
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Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters
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Lenticular Photo Used To Secretly Convey Hot Line Number To Abused Kids
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Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS
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Draconian ‘Wi-Fi police' stalk Olympic Games
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Police get medical records without a warrant
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Dutch Police intelligence services unlawfully spied on whole population groups
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