And the opaque funding that makes it worthwhile.
Cities need funding for emergency response, but some researchers have pointed out how it can come with unpleasant strings attached.Big tech companies including Microsoft, LexisNexis, and Palantir have helped fuel the militarization of local police forces and the Department of Homeland Security’s demand for high-tech surveillance, according to, LittleSis, MediaJustice, and the Surveillance, Tech, and Immigration Policing Project.
The report is specifically concerned with FEMA’s Urban Area Security Initiative grants, which the government has spent billions on in the years since 9/11. “The way that the grant program actually works is that DHS has an approved list of equipment that can be bought with the grant funding, but at least 30 percent of that money has to be used on law enforcement activities,” said Aly Panjwani, a senior analyst who worked on the report.
While most of the tech companies we rely on in our everyday lives don’t make physical weapons, some of them do make and sell products specifically intended to surveil the population. One of the examples included in the report is LexisNexis, a firm that’s well known for supplying journalists, scholars, and lawyers with access to databases full of documents.
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