"Understanding that police are in the business of maintaining order as they define it helps explain what otherwise seems strange behaviour by police. ... The answer, of course, is the cops are on the side of the cops."
ORG’s investigation into the Prevent duty has uncovered shocking widespread data sharing due to finding a poorly redacted FOI, as revealed in The Observer today.
“We hope this information will help the thousands of affected people to exercise their data protection rights and get their data removed from the myriad of government databases where it is held... Harms could continue for the rest of a referred child’s life.”
The words of the Biometrics and Surveillance Commissioner – a post that’ll be abolished by the #DataGrabBill.
Advances in #facialrecognition tech without proper oversight and a political will to double its use in policing means innocent people will be subjected to authoritarian biometric #surveillance and discredited predictive #policing.
In this article Sonia Boulos and Tamir Sorek discuss the policing of the use of the "Genocide" word.
"Abstract: Both societies, Israeli and Palestinian, harbor a collective trauma of annihilation and a national ethos of victimhood. While it is understandable that both sides see themselves as victims of genocidal acts in the current unprecedented wave of violence, when the term “genocide” is used in Western academia and public debates to describe the Israeli attack on Gaza, it is highly policed and is quickly associated with antisemitism. Considering that the Gaza Strip has lost almost one percent of its inhabitants while Israeli leaders use explicit annihilatory language, language policing surrounding genocide has become fatal for Palestinians."
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
"We blink past the obvious hypocrisy, drawn instead to that watchword training, deceptively neutral, the ostensible justification of a million liberal reforms, because who could argue against training? The police after all are like dogs: best when they obey. But obey what?" —Grace Glass and Sasha Tycko for n+1
The miscarriage of justice in the #Manchester10 case shows pre-crime policing not only attacks young people’s freedom of expression, but can lead to life-changing harms and perpetuates institutionalised racism in the UK.
Here is UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, inciting rightwing violence against peaceful protesters, trying to override independent policing decisions, and putting all people in the centre of London at risk on Saturday, Armistice Day.
This monstrous mediocrity is only whipping up division and hatred in a cynical attempt to further her career.
She should never be allowed near government again.
We've seen multiple political interventions into the policing of protest in the UK recently.
From the Home Secretary urging the police to consider waving a Palestinian flag to be a criminal offence to the Prime Minister claiming the Cenotaph could be desecrated.
We urge the Met to stand firm against this political pressure and protect our right to protest.