Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
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Watching police make arrests because of predictive policing, face recognition, or license plate readers without any follow-up confirms 200 years of policing history: science and technology often serve to legitimize harassing who police already want to harass but now it can be called “modern.”
After all, we're not really deploying predictive policing models to find wage theft and white collar crimes are we? But, I would love to know the amount of money, nationally, deployed by both private companies and the public to catch turn style jumpers and petty shop lifters.
Matthew Guariglia
Matthew Guariglia
For your viewing pleasure: I’ve been asked by the powers that be to make a public-facing Instagram account for my work. YOU have been invited to follow it.
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For your viewing pleasure: I’ve been asked by the powers that be to make a public-facing Instagram account for my work. YOU have been invited to follow it.
www.instagram.com/mguarig
The fight over Section 702 of FISA--the mass surveillance authority Congress has been struggling to renew--is reaching a climax. Hawks would rather let it *expire* than require the FBI to get warrants to look at American's collected communications which the program isn't supposed to collect anyway.
This is the Trump-era military-industrial tidal wave of cash shifting the Overton window in real time. People who otherwise have to maintain popular appeal for steady income have now decide it's economically viable to go all in on big tech, surveillance, and defense.
You can read the transcript of my testimony about government use of AI and civil liberties in front of Congress here--courtesy of @justinhendrix.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social
You can read the transcript of my testimony about government use of AI and civil liberties in front of Congress here--courtesy of @justinhendrix.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social
I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?
Too many politicians like to fear monger about Chinese technology, while turning an absolute blind eye to the abuses being committed by U.S.-based tech companies and the US government.
Matthew Guariglia
Matthew Guariglia
Matthew Guariglia
A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.
