Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte
Law enforcement in Davao City familiar with the IBM program said the technology had assisted them in carrying out Duterte’s controversial anti-crime agenda.
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Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
The voice-print technology allows authorities to mine call databases and cross-reference the voices of individuals prisoners have spoken with.
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
New York City served as IBM’s “primary testing area” for developing software that enables police to search surveillance video footage for skin color.
Plainclothes NYPD Cops Are Involved in a Staggering Number of Killings
Plainclothes police make up a tiny portion of the NYPD's force, but are involved in nearly a third of killings by police.
FBI Tracked an Activist Involved With Black Lives Matter as They Traveled Across the U.S., Documents Show
Documents obtained by The Intercept indicate that the FBI surveilled Black Lives Matter activists — and that the Department of Homeland Security drafted a mysterious "race paper."
“Show Me Your Papers” Becomes “Open Your Eyes” as Border Sheriffs Expand Iris Surveillance
Sheriffs’ departments from Brownsville to San Diego sign on to a free trial of iris recognition devices that will amass data on unauthorized immigrants.
Undercover Police Have Regularly Spied On Black Lives Matter Activists in New York
Nearly 300 MTA documents confirm that undercover officers attended numerous Black Lives Matter protests in New York and that police have tracked their movements and kept individual photos of them on file.
Exclusive: Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter Since Ferguson
The Department of Homeland Security has used social media to closely track activists.
New SWAT Documents Give Snapshot of Ugly Militarization of U.S. Police
Public records corroborate what police reform advocates have long insisted: that “Special Weapons And Tactics” units primarily respond to low-risk situations that do not require SWAT’s quasi-military approach.
Creator of White Supremacist “Mantra” Lives in Dylann Roof’s Hometown
Dylann Roof's obsession with Rhodesia is characteristic of a relatively new white supremacist movement that is strongly associated with the “white genocide” activist Robert Whitaker, a resident of Roof’s hometown.