cyberenviro.org » police

Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel

gtdonovan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:12:55 +0000

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 Graduate Center on 12/01/2011.

Incited by the case of the felony conviction of a young woman of color for sexting with her girlfriend in Oregon and participatory research on criminalization among 1,100 young people in New York City, the mini-conference focused on the nexus of youth, technology, law enforcement, and constructions of racialized sexuality. Using a broad definition of “policing” that extends across jails, schools, subways, and cyberspace, the conference examined the tools that parents, professionals, and others use to watch over, intervene with, and attempt to “correct” youth [more info: opencuny.org/growinguppoliced].

Conference Opening by Michelle Fine:

Presentations, Panels, and Discussions:

AP: Documents Show NY Police Watched Devout Muslims

gtdonovan — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:05:11 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

AFP: Facebook to disable inmate accounts in California

gtdonovan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:24:24 +0000

From the article: "acebook has agreed to disable the profiles of prison inmates in California whose accounts have been updated while they are behind bars." Continue reading →

CNET News: House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

gtdonovan — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:41:21 +0000

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 Continue reading →

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

gtdonovan — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:33:57 +0000

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." Continue reading →

Washington Post: Monitoring America

gtdonovan — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:09:57 +0000

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." Continue reading →

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

gtdonovan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:56:19 +0000

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. Continue reading →

ZDNet: Australian Govt Wants ISPs to Record Browsing History

gtdonovan — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:00:28 +0000

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 Continue reading →

Wired: Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent

gtdonovan — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:36:00 +0000

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." Continue reading →

AP: NYPD Must Show GOP Convention Surveillance

gtdonovan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:38:49 +0000

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." Continue reading →

NY Daily News: NYPD tracking cell phone owners, foes aren’t sure it’s legal

gtdonovan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:15:39 +0000

From the article: "A recent internal memo says that when cops make an arrest, they should remove the suspect's cell phone battery to avoid leakage - then jot down the International Mobile Equipment Identity number." Continue reading →

the war at home

gtdonovan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:24:46 +0000

Read about this while in boston this weekend. From the boston globe:

Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children’s bedrooms…

Apparently, in order to save the children we must declare them an enemy of the state…