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Tell Congress to Put an End to FRT

Post author By Jo Facklam
Post date July 15, 2021
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Rudimentary Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) was pioneered in the 1960s and even then the government quickly realized what implications FRT could have for policing and security. If one could use a computer to quickly look for the identity of suspects, they could effectively automate an extremely labor intensive aspect of policing—saving money in the long […]

Tags biometrics, fourth amendment rights, FRT, Moratorium, surveillance reform

Op-Ed

Our Platform To Reduce Police Violence

Post author By Alex Marthews
Post date September 4, 2020
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The United States is in the middle of a pandemic of racist police violence that shows no sign of abating. For many police officers, expressing verbal opposition to a police killing, police tactic or police budget, is itself an act of unreasoning aggression no sane person could endorse. So it’s at protests against police violence […]

Tags DHS, forfeitures, ice, immigrants, immigration, no-knock warrants, police, police brutality, police surveillance, qualified immunity, surveillance, surveillance ordinances, surveillance reform