Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel

The official Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel is now live! This channel includes video of presentations, panels, and discussions from the Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference that took place at both the University of Oregon and the CUNY … Continue reading →

AP: Documents Show NY Police Watched Devout Muslims

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AP: Documents Show NY Police Watched Devout Muslims

From the article: “The New York Police Department compiled lists of mosques and Muslim businesses it saw as potential security risks for reasons that included endorsing conservative religious views or having devout customers … That effort has benefited from federal money and an unusually close relationship with the CIA, one that at times blurred the lines between domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering.”

AFP: Facebook to disable inmate accounts in California

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AFP: Facebook to disable inmate accounts in California > From the article: "Facebook has agreed to disable the profiles of prison inmates in California whose accounts have been updated while they are behind bars."

CNET News: House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

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CNET News: House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill > From the article: Bill would force ISPs to keep logs of customers' activities for 1yr in case police want to review them ... to make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents named the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act

Deleware Online: Judge says cops can’t track with GPS

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Deleware Online: Judge says cops can’t track with GPS > From the Judge's Ruling: "The advance of technology will continue ad infinitum ... An Orwellian state is now technologically feasible. Without adequate judicial preservation of privacy, there is nothing to protect our citizens from being tracked 24/7."

Washington Post: Monitoring America

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Washington Post: Monitoring America > From the article: "9yrs after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, homeland security and military criminal investigators."

ACLU Report: Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment‐Protected Activity

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ACLU Report: Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment‐Protected Activity > From the report: "Americans have been put under surveillance or harassed by the police for deciding to organize, march, protest, espouse unusual viewpoints, and engage in normal, innocuous behaviors such as writing notes or taking photographs in public.

ZDNet: Australian Govt Wants ISPs to Record Browsing History

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ZDNet: Australian Govt Wants ISPs to Record Browsing History > From the article: The Australian government has been in discussions with ISPs on implementing a data retention regime that would log and retain customer's private web browsing history for a certain period of time for law enforcement to access when needed

Wired: Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent

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Wired: Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent > From the article: "The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26% from 2008 to 2009 … Not one request for a wiretap was turned down."

AP: NYPD Must Show GOP Convention Surveillance

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AP: NYPD Must Show GOP Convention Surveillance > From the article: "A federal judge has ruled the New York Police Department must release 2,000 pages of documents related to its surveillance of protesters before the 2004 Republican National Convention."