#police surveillance

[cock-holliday]

The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.

“If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference.

Cool, as always, abolish the police, ACAB, and fuck the NYPD in particular

#nypd #new york #police surveillance #surveillance state #privacy

[nando161mando]

Announcing: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance!

We've updated and overhauled our Street Level Surveillance hub so it has all the basic facts you need to know about the 16 most common types/categories of surveillance that local PDs use.

#field guide #police surveillance #surveillance #antisurveillance #privacy #invasion of privacy #spying #spy #cctv #recording devices #audio #visual #media #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #all cops are bastards #all cops are bad #investigation #investigators #telecommunications #sim card #internet

[fernreads]

Ring, Amazon’s perennially controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended its cozy relationship with law enforcement by pointing out that cops can only get access to a camera owner’s recordings with [the owner’s] express permission or a court order. But in response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., the company stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone without either.

Last month, Markey wrote to Amazon asking it to both clarify Ring’s ever-expanding relationship with American police, who’ve increasingly come to rely on the company’s growing residential surveillance dragnet, and to commit to a raft of policy reforms. In a July 1 response from Brian Huseman, Amazon vice president of public policy, the company declined to permanently agree to any of them, including “Never accept financial contributions from policing agencies,” “Never allow immigration enforcement agencies to request Ring recordings,” and “Never participate in police sting operations.”

Although Ring publicizes its policy of handing over camera footage only if the owner agrees — or if judge signs a search warrant — the company says it also reserves the right to supply police with footage in “emergencies,” defined broadly as “cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person.” Markey had also asked Amazon to clarify what exactly constitutes such an “emergency situation,” and how many times audiovisual surveillance data has been provided under such circumstances. Amazon declined to elaborate on how it defines these emergencies beyond “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury,” stating only that “Ring makes a good-faith determination whether the request meets the well-known standard.” Huseman noted that it has complied with 11 emergency requests this year alone but did not provide details as to what the cases or Ring’s “good-faith determination” entailed.

Matthew Guariglia, a policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Intercept he encourages any Ring owners concerned about warrantless access of their cameras to enable end-to-end encryption — an option the company declined to make the default setting after being urged to do so by Markey. “I am disturbed that Ring continues to offer, in any situation, warrantless footage from user’s devices despite the fact that once again, police are not the customers for Ring; the people who buy the devices are the customers,” said Guariglia.

Guariglia added that even though the “emergency” exception hypothetically might be warranted in the most dire circumstances, there will always be the risks of “mission creep” and police abuse without any meaningful oversight. “If there is the infrastructure, if there is the channel by which police can request footage without a warrant or consent of the user, under what circumstances they get it is out of our control. I worry that because it’s decided by the police and by somebody at Ring, there will be temptation to use that for increasingly less urgent situations.”

In a statement to The Intercept, Markey said that he believed Amazon and Ring have both lost the benefit of the doubt, despite their purported good-faith efforts. “I’m deeply concerned to learn that the company has repeatedly disclosed users’ recordings to law enforcement without requiring the users’ permission,” the senator added. “This revelation is particularly troubling given that the company has previously admitted to having no policies that restrict how law enforcement can use Ring users’ footage, no data security requirements for law enforcement entities that have users’ footage, and no policies that prohibit law enforcement officers from keeping Ring users’ footage forever.”

#article #full article #bolding mine #amazon #ring #police #police surveillance #ring camera #surveillance state #government surveillance #information security

[pervysmirks]

#dare program #police surveillance #police in schools

[deserveneither]

#ring camera #police surveillance

[krishmanvith]

#lucie blackman case #lucie blackman #the lucie blackman case #true crime #true crime stories #stranger things #true story #lucie blackman netflix #murder of lucie blackman #mysterious disappearance #shocking secrets of the lucie blackman disappearance #lucie blackman disappearance #shocking secrets of the lucie blackman #joji obara #police investigation #police surveillance #police raid #mysterious finds #mysterious discoveries #strange discoveries #Youtube

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Police Keeping Strict Watch Through Province On Radical Programs,” Kingston Whig-Standard. June 10, 1932. Page 1. ---- TORONTO, June 10.- Provincial Police are keeping a strict watch throughout Ontario on radical demonstrations planned for various days this month, said Alfred Cuddy, Deputy Commissioner, last night, commenting on a despatch from Brantford to the effect pamphlets had been circulated there calling for a solidarity day of the Workers' International Relief June 12. 

On that day, according to the circulars found in Brantford, "workers of all capitalistic and colonial countries will pledge their fighting solidarity to the common struggles against capitalist oppression.”

#toronto #brantford #international solidarity #solidarity protest #workers' international relief #communists #fear of a red planet #reds #great depression in canada #police surveillance #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

[decolonize-the-left]

This week alone saw Atlanta-area raids by law enforcement that took a woman out of her house with no shirt, left a naked photo of another woman on display after ransacking a room and dragged a man by his hair – while arresting none of them.

The pre-dawn raids on three houses on Thursday were the third Swat-style operation in residential areas of Atlanta and nearby unincorporated DeKalb county tied to a movement that began in 2021 – and the first in which the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) played a prominent role.

The fight against Cop City has attracted national and global headlines, especially after police shot and killed one environmental protester at a campsite in a public park – the first such incident of its kind in US history. At least one of the search warrants for Thursday’s raid seen by the Guardian authorized the FBI to confiscate dozens of items from the raided homes – including laptops, cellphones, “Defend the Atlanta Forest” stickers and posters and personal journals. The operation came after weeks of Atlanta officials promoting a campaign to catch activists linked to arson against construction and police equipment, all the while activists have been committing more acts of sabotage, alternating with nonviolent, civil disobedience.

COINTELPRO 2.0. if you don't know what that is:

See the rest here:

#cop city #weelaunee forest #police brutality #politics #abolish police #acab #police state #surveillance state #history repeating itself #red scare #capitalism #fbi #leftist #biden #colonization #fascism #human rights #civil rights

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #nyc #subwayoracle #nypd #new york city #acab #fuck police #fuck cops #fuck the police #fuck the cops #eric adams #surveillance state

[callese]

Source

#ftp #defund the police #defundthepolice #police brutality #capitalist system #blm #capitalism kills #defund the police fund our communities #drone camera #drone surveillance nyc #mayor adams

[utilitycaster]

The thing about Imogen is that when someone else in Bells Hells talks about feeling wronged or insecure she is almost always one of the first people there to talk to them and to try to make them feel better about where they are, whether it's FCG's early struggles with personhood, or Fearne with her initial difficulties with her parents and later with Groon's side-eye, or Ashton following the shard, or Chetney after confessing his truth. Even though I frequently find her relationship with Laudna frustrating, Imogen is usually quick to ask Laudna how she's doing and try to help. There's so many small moments with her party members she's initiated that, if she ever let them blossom into their full potential, would lead to her becoming an unbelievably kind and understanding person. But then, almost every time, no matter what, instead of continuing these conversations and pursuing a deeper relationship and learning about other people's motivations through ongoing back-and-forth conversations, she's like "Okay! They seem to be doing better! Now, maybe if I open all their mail, I'll crack the code to why they sometimes do these things that are self-destructive or off-putting, and it will solve everything!"

#honestly what if this is actually the greatness within her the stormlord sees #kord: have you tried building trust with your friends instead of comforting them and then putting them under surveillance? #like I do genuinely believe her intent is good but unfortunately you don't unlearn 10 years of behavior in 3 months #and so as a result she devalues what she actually does to help people and sees her value as the thoughtcrime police instead #critical role #imogen temult #critical role spoilers #anyway. back to midstmas and drizztmas

[probablyasocialecologist]

A French publisher who was arrested in London on terrorism charges has been awarded “substantial” damages by the Metropolitan police, as new figures reveal thousands of foreign nationals have been stopped at UK ports under anti-terror laws. Ernest Moret, 29, a foreign rights manager for Éditions la Fabrique, was detained at St Pancras station in April last year on his way to the London book fair. He was held under section 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and questioned by counter-terrorist officers about whether he had taken part in anti-government demonstrations in France and if he backed the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Moret’s mobile phone and laptop were also confiscated for several weeks, before being returned to him after police decided to take no further action. The police also admitted downloading Moret’s sim card before returning his phone.

[...]

The figures have deepened concerns that police are using counter-terrorism powers to target political activists. Kevin Blowe, campaigns coordinator at the police monitoring group Netpol, said the figures were “genuinely alarming”. He said: “We know these powers are used for purposes other than investigating terrorism, including the targeting of political activists visiting Britain. “The data does suggest that EU states are seeking the active help of British police to target their own citizens too, although state surveillance is so lacking in transparency and accountability that this is almost impossible to confirm. “Schedule 7 is discriminatory and draconian, it undermines civil rights and criminalises communities and political dissent. Like so many other counter-terrorism powers put in place a decade ago by the last Labour government, it is something that we would all be better off without.”

#uk politics #police #met police #surveillance

[politijohn]

Source // A non-paywalled article on the topic

#police state #politics #us politics #Joe Biden #liberalism #surveillance #government #current events #news

[qvincvnx]

those like white republican woman security theatre tiktoks also get me bc like you can see their houses and. lock that front door all you want but it is NOT going to keep out a determined someone with an axe or perhaps a man door hand hook.

#that article about how real thieves don't bother picking locks they just bring a handsaw and go in through the wall. #i've been thinking SO much about how much (upper class western) society relies on surveillance as policing. #e.g. my neighborhood mostly has reasonable wooden fences & none of the gates lock. but EVERYONE has video cameras covering all entrances. #and then dependence on structures like the police to enforce. vs. like... just having shit that is PHYSICALLY and materially. sturdy. #the enshittification of housing stock.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The NSA is just DAYS from taking over the internet, and it’s not on the front page of any newspaper–because no one has noticed.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/congress-is-about-to-pass-a-massive-expansion-to-illegal-surveillance-and-most-havent-noticed

#TheFreeThoughtProject

#the free thought project #tftp #police state #censorship fisa #section 702 #patriot act #surveillance

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Mounties Get Moon Suspect,” Border Cities Star. February 17, 1933. Page 3. ---- LIQUOR IS FOUND ---- Silvester Olissi Under Surveillance for Year ---- Silvester Olissi, 42 years old, of 915 Langlois avenue, is held on bail of $1,000 to answer a charge of violating the Excise Act by having moonshine cached in an alley near his house. He was arraigned before Magistrate D. M. Brodie today and remanded for eight days.

Olissi, according to the Royal Mounted Police, has been under surveillance for more than a year. He is uspected of being one of the largest distributors of illicit or among the foreign residents of the Border district.

Four and a half gallons of moonshine was seized by Sergrant E. G. Werks and Bergrant Charles E. Gress. A search of Olissi's home was not successful, but the cache of liquor, located at the rear of the property, was found after an hour's search.

#windsor #excise act #moonshine #moonshiner #moonshining #police surveillance #police raid #royal canadian mounted police #italian canadians #italian immigration to canada #liquor smuggling #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada