Here are some of the technologies law enforcement can use to surveil protesters via JennaMC_Laugh
WASHINGTON — When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sparked confusion last month by asserting that the National Security Agency, the nation’s electronic spying organization, was involved in monitoring domestic protests, his remarks sparked renewed attention on surveillance of protesters.
Airborne surveillanceAs thousands of Baltimore residents flooded the expressway last Monday night to protest the police killing of George Floyd, they stood under the watchful eye of spy planes carrying powerful wide-angle cameras tracking their every movement. Now that protesters are once again taking to the streets across the country in massive numbers, demanding justice for the deaths of more black Americans in police custody, activists’ concerns about surveillance have only increased.
Airborne surveillance beyond Baltimore has included a Customs and Border Protection Predator drone in Minneapolis, FBI spy planes, state and local helicopters and military surveillance aircraft, among others. Journalists, hobbyists and activists have been actively tracking publicly available flight tracking databases to follow the course of these spy planes each night.
BuzzFeed reported that the Drug Enforcement Agency was recently authorized to assist in surveillance and other law enforcement activity beyond enforcing drug crimes during the protests, which would allow them to use their surveillance planes’ equipped mobile cell site simulators called “Dirtboxes.” In recent years, courts and the Justice Department have acted to limit the warrantless use of cell site simulators. In April 2017, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled that use of a cell site simulator requires a warrant, arguing that any evidence derived from the surveillance device should be tossed out if no warrant was obtained for its use, one of several local court decisions.
According to Freddy Martinez, a policy analyst with Open the Government, a nonprofit dedicated to transparency, protesters on the ground in Washington, D.C., have been deeply concerned about ongoing federal and local surveillance while out on the streets.
In Detroit, constant video monitoring and use of facial recognition are huge concerns. According to Tawana Petty, director of the Data Justice Program for the Detroit Community Technology Project, she and fellow activists have spent years fighting against the city’s use of facial recognition and other tracking technologies, whose use has only grown amid the coronavirus pandemic and the growing protests.
“I spent the last three years fighting it here,” she told Yahoo News. “We’re 80 percent black —you’re talking about having a technology that misidentifies darker skin tones in a city that’s 80 percent black.”
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