The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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In Trump’s America, Black Lives Matter Activists Grow Wary of Their Smartphones
The perception among political activists that they are unfairly targeted has fueled a new wave of technical training intended to blunt what they consider government overreach that threatens their constitutional rights to free expression.
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ICE Is Using Stingrays To Round Up Undocumented Immigrants
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has used the controversial cell phone tracking device to track, capture and deport an undocumented restaurant worker from El Salvador.
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NYPD Officers Accessed Black Lives Matter Activists' Texts, Documents Show
Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal details of how police posed as protesters amid unrest following the death of Eric Garner.
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Facial Recognition Database Used by FBI Is Out of Control, House Committee Hears
Database contains photos of half of U.S. adults without their consent, the algorithm is wrong nearly 15% of the time – and it's more likely to misidentify black people.
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Help Wanted: How You Can Act Locally To Stymie Trump’s Agenda
Community Control Over Police Surveillance, or CCOPS, empowers city councils to reexamine and stop local police departments from broadly sharing surveillance data with fusion centers, as well as with the federal government.
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Court Rules U.K. Mass Spying Was Unlawfully Conducted for Nearly Two Decades
Decision is called "long overdue indictment" of government's bulk collection of citizens' private information.
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Surveillance Tool was Used to Arrest Baltimore Protestors
For years, the social media giants have provided data to Geofeedia, a company marketing surveillance tools to police, creating real-time maps of activity in protest areas that were later used to identify and arrest protestors.
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency and the FBI.
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How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything On a Smartphone
Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Cost: $650,000 plus a $500,000 setup fee with an Israeli outfit called the NSO Group.
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Surveillance Isn’t Colorblind
Rapidly developing technology exposes communities of color to near-constant surveillance and over-policing.
