surveillance
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Advocacy Groups Demand Amazon, MGM Cancel Creepy ‘Ring Nation’ Surveillance Reality Show
40 privacy and racial justice groups signed an open letter demanding MGM Studios cancel Ring Nation, a dystopian reality television show based on security footage captured from Ring home cameras. The groups warned airing the show risks “normalizing and promoting Amazon Ring’s dangerous network of surveillance cameras,” and could put vulnerable communities at heightened privacy…
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CNN Hires Ex-Cop Accused of Lying About NYPD’s Surveillance of Muslims
CNN has announced a new hire: John Miller, the former head of the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit.
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How ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Led to the Creation of the Prisoner Ankle Monitor
Court-ordered ankle monitors bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in the U.S. every year. Law enforcement uses the devices to monitor more than a hundred thousand people every day, a number that’s expanding rapidly. They play a key role in American criminal justice. For such a crucial technology, though, they began in an unlikely…
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Rights Groups Demand U.S. DOE Take a Stand on ‘Invasive’ Student Surveillance Software
More than a dozen rights groups and education organisations wrote a letter urgently calling on the Department of Education to take a stance on controversial student monitoring software, which they say violates students’ privacy and threatens to undermine hard-fought civil rights gains.