There’s something to be said about how neoliberalism, in pursuit of transforming public services to private, has obscured what democracy dictates public.

In policing, we have privatized surveillance such that companies control what data even police have access to, let alone defendants. Where processes and their resultant data used to be subpoenable, now we have strict NDAs and proprietary claims.

This is a major impediment to justice, accountability, equality. #police #surveillance #AI

ICE triples Azure data usage to 1.4PB (Jul'25-Jan'26), leans on AI Vision/Video Indexer for surveillance amid facial recognition, phone trackers, drones. ☁️

Reports challenge Microsoft's "no mass surveillance" stance despite contracts; employee concerns rise as policies clash with ICE enforcement reality. ⚖️

🔗 https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-azure-data-usage-by-ice-triples-as-reports-question-microsofts-connection-to-mass-surveillance-we-do-not-believe-ice-is-engaged-in-such-activity

#TechNews #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #AI #Cloud #Azure #Microsoft #ICE #DigitalRights #DataProtection #Ethics #FOSS #US #USA #Police #Trump #USpol

Police departments receive surveillance technology thanks to government grants, private donors, and surveillance companies offering free or in-kind trades of precious police data. It comes at a cost.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/free-surveillance-tech-still-comes-high-and-dangerous-cost #surveillance #police #ai

DHS monitors Reddit users calling for peaceful ICE protests, per leaked intelligence bulletin. 🔍

No violence indicated, yet agency flags it for "operational and reputational risks" near Border Patrol sites—raising free speech concerns ⚠️

Surveillance without warrants erodes user privacy and civil liberties 🛡️

🔗 https://boingboing.net/2026/02/10/dhs-is-stalking-reddit-users-online.html

#TechNews #Privacy #DHS #Surveillance #Reddit #FreeSpeech #Cybersecurity #DataProtection #CivilLiberties #ICE #Censorship #Government #Protest #Violence #Police

Police recovered "deleted" Nest Doorbell footage from Nancy Guthrie via Google's residual backend data, despite no subscription. 🔍

Expired clips retrieved by FBI post-removal expose retained cloud data accessible to law enforcement. ⚠️

"Deleted" ≠ gone, raising user privacy risks. 🛡️

🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage

#TechNews #Privacy #Google #NestCam #Nest #Surveillance #DataRetention #Cybersecurity #SmartHome #DigitalRights #UserRights #DataProtection #Biometrics #Accountability #GDPR #Police #FBI

"Several recent #books paint a stark portrait of the uniquely expansive regime of #USpolicing and punishment, revealing what conventional wisdom gets wrong about its origins and scale and clarifying the obstacles to changing it."

Marie Gottschalk reviews #TheMigrantsJail, #TheHighestLawInTheLand, #TheMinneapolisReckoning, & #Copaganda

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-making-of-the-deportation-machine/

#USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #ICE #police #immigration #migrants #deportations #massDeportations #carceralIndustry @bookstodon

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[rubrics] LAW, POLITICS The Making of the Deportation Machine The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus. Marie Gottschalk image (photo, at left): Outside New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility in March 2025. Image: courtesy of Daniel J. Chacón / Sante Fe New Mexican

“…a clumsy attempt by Ring to put a cuddly face on a rather dystopian reality: widespread networked surveillance by a company that has cozy relationships with law enforcement and other equally invasive surveillance companies.”

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

#Ring #Amazon #Surveillance #Police #Policing #ICE

Und auch deshalb ist die Digitalisierung, die früher oder später unweigerlich auf eine Post-Privacy-Gesellschaft herausläuft, in erster Linie eine Dystopie:

Google und Facebook/Meta geben Nutzer:innendaten an die US-amerikanische Polizei weiter, damit diese Menschen verfolgen kann, die Informationen zu Abtreibungen suchen.

Und das ist nur ein Beispiel. Morgen kann schon illegal sein, was heute noch legal ist und etwaige Datenschutzgesetze können auch in Europa gelockert werden, während die Überwachungsinfrastruktur, Digitalzwänge/Abhängigkeiten und der Zugriff auf Gesundheitsdaten immer invasiver werden.

"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping. "

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T

#Abortion #Polizei #Police #Datenschutz #Feminism #Abtreibung #DigitaleTransformation #Digitalisierung

Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
"The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership."
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/

#BigTech #Cops #Spyware #Surveillance #Capitalism #Antireport #Police #USA

The Paradox of the State. Claude and I continue our dialogue about the parable of the Two Valleys, effectively invoking Hobbes and Rousseau.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/07/comrade-claude-4-libertarians-and-anarchists/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #politics #democracy #property #freedom #liberty #authority #violence #power #protection #police #authroity #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #justice #choices

UK launches major police reforms with expanded AI and live facial recognition 📹
AI analyzes CCTV footage to free up 6M officer hours yearly; facial rec vans rise to 50 🔍
Privacy concerns grow as surveillance scales without clear civil liberty protections ⚖️

🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.html

#TechNews #Privacy #AI #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Security #Data #Regulation #BigTech #Police #CivilLiberties #Ethics #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #UserRights #UK #UnitedKingdom #CCTV

Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

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Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

A new EPIC report warns that surveillance and ICE-linked enforcement are deterring people from seeking medical care, fueling a US “health privacy crisis.” 🩺
Data brokers, ad-tech tracking, and law enforcement access to health data are eroding trust and driving patients away from treatment. ⚠️

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/surveillance-and-ice-are-driving-patients-away-from-medical-care-report-warns/
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#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #ICE #Health #Healthcare #DataBrokers #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #PoliceBrutality

ICE’s Mobile Fortify facial recognition app misidentified a detained woman twice in an Oregon raid 👤
ICE still calls the app a definitive way to determine immigration status, even over documents 📱
Raises major concerns about wrongful targeting, due process, and biometric policing ⚖️

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ices-facial-recognition-app-misidentified-a-woman-twice/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #ICE #FacialRecognition #AI #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #Security #LawEnforcement #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #PoliceBrutality

Palantir is developing a mapping tool for ICE that scores targets & flags “high-density” deportation areas 📍
Internal docs show data flows from HHS into ICE systems via Palantir’s ELITE platform 🧩
Raises serious privacy, oversight & civil liberties concerns ⚖️

🔗 https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Palantir #ICE #AI #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #Security #LawEnforcement #Transparency #Ethics #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #Policebrutality

#BatonRouge Acquires a Straight-Up #Military #Surveillance #Drone

Baton Rouge is now one of the first local #police departments in the United States to deploy an unmanned aerial vehicle ( #UAV ) with such extensive surveillance capabilities — a dangerous escalation in the #militarization of local law enforcement.
#privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/baton-rouge-acquires-straight-military-surveillance-drone

In the name of fighting #crime and #terrorism, EU law already requires mandatory #police surveillance of international air travel.

EU governments are now considering #surveillance of all other modes of transport, in particular maritime travel.

Via @statewatch. Give them a follow if you'd like to stay in the loop.

https://www.statewatch.org/news/2026/eu-member-states-want-to-expand-police-surveillance-of-travel/

#privacy #DigitalRights #migration

My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.”
Photo by Pierre Lavie.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

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Getty photojournalist John Abernathy is seen face down on ground pinned & surrounded by federal agents. His arm is outstretched & his camera is midair as he tossed it to another photographer so it wouldn't be confiscated. Photo by Pierre Lavie.

Are you being tracked by the police?

Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error

https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/

#Police #ACAB #Flock #Surveillance #Security #Privacy #Flock #Tech

“There’s this veneer of respect for privacy that is painted over all of this data aggregation and consolidation.”

But beneath it all, #privacy experts warn that smartphone-monitoring software "Tangles" is the latest in a law enforcement arsenal, from surveillance #tech to an army of drones, operating with little oversight.

Our latest from Francesca D'Annunzio is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/

#police #surveillance #law #politics #USpol #news

Fascisation sécuritaire, impérialisme et guerre contre les peuples (partie 2)
https://www.contretemps.eu/fascisation-securitaire-imperialisme-guerre-police-rigouste-partie-2/
#Politique #Diaporama #Enquête #Histoire #Théorie #Armée #Armement #Armes #Autoritarisme #ExtrêmeDroite #Fascisation #Fascisme #Impérialisme #Militarisation #Militarisme #Néofascisme #Police #Répression #Révolution #SoulèvementsArabes

@YesterdaysWiki

Typical social pornography ; Groveling over framed images of Tian An Men while our local #police maims, suppress and imprison protesters.

Like dude, do you own a mirror? #China manifestants are LUCKY. France's police is WAY more violent.

Source: Amnesty International.

Something extraordinary is happening in #Iran:

#Women are really really not giving a fuck anymore

What started as protests over the murder of #MahsaAmini by religious morality #police in 2022 for not wearing her headscarf simmered and now is snowballing. Women and girls are not wearing the mandatory #hijab at ever increasing rates

https://apnews.com/article/iran-hijab-mahsa-amini-protests-israel-war-d953ebfce090c044ac948aa5e476e7b1

#WomensRights #religion

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A man and a woman ride a motorbike in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025

@autonomysolidarity 'A #Giessen, des personnes venues de toute l'Allemagne ont manifesté samedi contre le mouvement d'extrême droite "Generation Deutschland". La #police a fait usage de la force.' #Violence policière

https://taz.de/Demo-gegen-AfD-Jugend-in-Giessen/!6133578/

#GénérationAllemagne #FckAfd #Répression

Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City

https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg

#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution

As Nottinghamshire's Chief Constable faces jail for contempt of court, for repeatedly failing to hand over video evidence in a claim around false arrest & assault by police officers, one can only presume that the Labour Govt. will be exploring ways to forestall such actions in the future (perhaps by removing the option of making a Chief Constable personally liable for the actions of their force?).

#police #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/12/judges-set-to-decide-fate-of-police-chief-constable-guilty-of-contempt-of-court

…Zarkin is involved in another MI controversy.
In an ongoing lawsuit, filed earlier this year in a Wayne County court, a fmr city manager & a fmr #police officer allege that Zarkin held conversations w/ Jamiel Altaheri, until recently the #PoliceChief in Hamtramck, a #Detroit suburb. In those conversations, plaintiffs allege, the 2 men discussed a plan to pay #Trump as much as $5 million to secure a #pardon for an unidentified NY acquaintance of Altaheri accused of unspecified financial #crimes.

At some point the London's Metropolitan Police will need to stop surveying & analysing to find the extent of the force's racism (in this case specifically against black people) and start acting on the findings.

Its 25 years since Macpherson report declared the force 'institutionally racist', another report confirming such a conclusion is really no help if (as is clear) a quarter of a decade has resulted in little actual change!

*Action* is required

#police #racism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lq711n2e2o

In the capital, where #SexualHarassment & #abuse are crimes, many #women said the #police would file a complaint only if a victim knew her abuser’s name. Going to the authorities was widely seen as a waste of time, they said; even if a complaint was filed, it would be unlikely to result in a full investigation or arrest, as it did in President Sheinbaum’s case.

#SexualAssault #RapeCulture #misogyny #MaleSupremacy #ViolenceAgainstWomen #ClaudiaSheinbaum

On the streets of #Mexico City this week, many #women could quickly recall frightening personal incidents—men following them on the street or groping them on a crowded train. Many said they did not believe they could count on the #police to pursue such cases, whether #SexualHarassment was a punishable #crime or not.

#SexualAssault #RapeCulture #misogyny #MaleSupremacy #ViolenceAgainstWomen #ClaudiaSheinbaum