Another one down! Chatham County, NC cancels their contract with #FlockSafety

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Fusion centers like GISAC make it clear that the distinction between local police and ICE is illusory. To abolish ICE, we must abolish policing and the surveillance infrastructures fueling both mass incarceration and mass deportation.

Read our new zine on the architecture of APD’s surveillance apparatus and Georgia’s very own DHS-sponsored fusion center, the Georgia Information Sharing & Analysis Center (GISAC).

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How hacked surveillance cameras are fueling assassinations in Iran Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security researchers say the underlying vulnerabilities cover the planet and are ea...

“Cheap, ubiquitous and always on, cameras are uniquely useful targets. Poorly secured feeds can reveal where officials live, how convoys move and who walked into which building when. And new AI tools can turn that flood of footage into something searchable and operationally useful.”

Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Unlocked) This episode was originally released March 9th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patro

Now unlocked: Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police

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Trans People are Facing a 'Dual State' in Trump's America | On the Media | WNYC Studios This week, the Idaho Senate is considering a bill that would block transgender people from using public bathrooms that conform with their gender identity, escalating the state’s preex...

I interviewed with WNYC's On the Media about what is happening to trans people in the United States.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The problem of surveillance is bigger than Flock Safety.

Join us on 4/15 for a webinar to learn more about why Flock Safety is just a starting point for challenging the surveillance apparatus around us.

Please register at tinyurl.com/biggerthanflock

The way forward won't be building hardened publicly owned data centers, it will be giving public money to defend private data centers.

Opposition to data centers becomes a threat to national security, punishable by law of course.

SASSI - Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure SASSI documents and challenges surveillance systems and infrastructure across the South. Research on police technologies, surveillance companies, and community impact.

New from SASSI:

"DHS Has Sown Seeds of Authoritarianism Since Its Founding"

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Prison Dining Giant Aramark Serves Inedible Food to Drive Commissary Sales, Lawsuit Alleges Incarcerated people in West Virginia filed a lawsuit arguing that the nation's largest prison food provider violates consumer protections.

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BlueLeaks 2.0 (91.53 GB)

BlueLeaks 2.0 contains millions of submissions and tips about alleged crimes and terrorist acts. The data comes from P3, which is used by intelligence, law enforcement, and schools.

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SASSI - Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure SASSI documents and challenges surveillance systems and infrastructure across the South. Research on police technologies, surveillance companies, and community impact.

New from SASSI:

"DHS Has Sown Seeds of Authoritarianism Since Its Founding"

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Everyone, let me introduce to you the largest investor in Flock Safety.

Police Misuse of Flock Surveillance Becoming Statewide Issue Milwaukee, other cities face misconduct cases, accountability issues.

To be clear, none of what has been reported about how police use Flock Safety and other ALPRs is "misuse." Police are using these tools as they were designed to be used.

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

If you haven't, we would recommend reviewing the recent updates Flock made to its terms of service.

Might be worth asking your elected officials if they have seen these updates.

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Academic Staff Assembly calls on UWPD to cancel Flock Safety contract The organization passed a resolution that calls for all contracts with surveillance technology companies to be made publicly available and for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department to ...

“The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.”

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

The Atlanta Police Department is doing the Lord's work.

Included in the Homeland Security Unit's report about the April 2023 Stop Cop City "Week of Resiliency" are a number of events with national security concerns, including a bake sale.

Cupcakes are known to be a telltale sign of terrorism.

No Surveilling The Surveillance Giant A weapons and surveillance juggernaut doesn’t want its own political influence strategy tracked.

“Axon was sued by shareholders last month after rejecting a transparency proposal asking the policing technology firm to disclose its political spending strategy and make transparent all direct and indirect political contributions.”

What's fun about this is that the continued existence of the LAPD also "undercuts the city's promise as a haven for immigrants, those seeking gender-affirming care and other vulnerable groups."

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Discovered because of anti-surveillance activist run haveibeenflocked.com

Dunwoody pauses Flock contract for security and legal review Dunwoody City Council voted to delay a Flock Safety 911 dispatch software contract after raising data privacy, security, and policy concerns.

Flock continues to take hits across the country. Flock is not an anomaly.

We need to place the same level of scrutiny on all vendors and the police and corporations who use these tools.

Surveillance isn't safety.

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Denver dumps Flock, awards location tracking camera contract to Axon Denver is getting rid of its automated license plate reading camera vendor Flock Safety.

Case in point: Denver contracts with Axon after ending their contract with Flock.

www.9news.com/article/news...

The growing movement to cancel Flock Safety contracts across the country is great. We need to remember that Flock is one of many ALPR vendors and we need to oppose all of them.

If we're not careful, we're going to dismantle Flock only to have Axon or Motorola take their place.

Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’ Mervin Raudabaugh, an 86-year-old Pennsylvania man, is making headlines for turning down an offer of more than $15 million to sell his farmland to data center developers. He sold development rights to...

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The Anti-State State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore (Unlocked) This episode was originally released January 26th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pa

Now unlocked: we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way

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