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Surveillance doesn't improve crime or make anyone safer. It wastes civic dollars and creates new risks for vulnerable communities. The SFPD's leak demonstrates one reason why.
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"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."
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Let's keep building.
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Civil society actors in nearly every region of the world now operate under the assumption that they are being surveilled. The result is a less democratic world for everyone.
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The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly dangerous.
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Some innovations create a new future that serves people better. Some sustain the status quo. It's time to think more radically.
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In which a defense contractor lays its anti-democratic, pro-fascist ideology bare.
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"Google had already disclosed my data without telling me. There was no opportunity to contest it."
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Flock is building a national surveillance network. A protest movement is forming to tear it down.
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This cannot continue.
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"Four weeks into the war, Iran is plummeting toward total digital isolation with its internet blocked and communications heavily restricted and monitored." And it's part of a bigger trend.
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By treating source materials as contraband, the DOJ is putting both journalism and democracy at risk.