by Tyler Walicek | Nov 26, 2025 | AI, Amazon, Flock Safety, ICE, immigration, News Analysis, Policing, Surveillance
The United States public has been treated to round after round of revelations disclosing that our actions — public and private, digital and physical, criminalized and legal — are tracked and surveilled in a bevy of ways. New realms of egregious privacy violations and excesses continue to be regularly broached by corporations and police. One of the most concerning contemporary cases is that of the…
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by Ed Vogel | Oct 18, 2025 | Flock Safety, ICE, Illinois, license plate readers, Op-Ed, Public Safety, Surveillance
In a remarkable series of avoidable mistakes, elected officials in Illinois have demonstrated to the rest of the country the impossibility of meaningful regulation of police use of surveillance technology. In May of this year, 404 Media published evidence that Illinois automated license plate reader data was being accessed on behalf of federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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