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Topic: Surveillance

Smarter Government or Data-Driven Disaster: The Algorithms Helping Control Local Communities

Governments now use the ability to collect and analyze hundreds of data points everyday to automate many of their decisions,...

Police Surveillance: Facial Recognition Use in Your Backyard

The use of facial recognition technology by police departments, both small and large, has quietly proliferated throughout the country. MuckRock...

Who’s Watching Who? A Guide to Monitoring the Use of Facial Recognition Tech Where You Live

A New York Times investigation recently introduced the country to Clearview AI, a small and secretive facial recognition company. Clearview...

FAQ – New Jersey Police Bodycams

This is a collection of frequently asked questions around body-worn camera use by police officers in the state of New...

Surveillance Policy Making by Procurement

In an age of heightened concern about the militarization of local police and surveillance technology, how do local law enforcement...

“Confronting Black Boxes: A Shadow Report of the New York City Automated Decision System Task Force”

In 2017, New York City became the first US jurisdiction to create a task force to come up with recommendations...

Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps

Everywhere we turn, local media — TV, digital, radio — is constantly telling us about the scourge of crime lurking...

The Daily: The End of Privacy as We Know It?

A secretive start-up promising the next generation of facial recognition software has compiled a database of images far bigger than...

Opening the Chicago Surveillance Fund

Through the last year and a half, MuckRock and Lucy Parsons Lab have used FOIA to investigate the use of...