Police Around the Country Are Acquiring More and More Surveillance Technologies

The East Bay Times (October 5, 2018) reports that “Police around the country are acquiring more and more surveillance technologies each year, especially license plate readers and similar mass surveillance technologies. This growth is occurring even when there isn’t a commensurate rise in crime or other public safety threat that needs to be addressed.”

“Law enforcement needs to explain to the public exactly what specific goal they are seeking to achieve with these technologies,” said Matt Cagle, a technology attorney with the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Public safety in the digital era requires transparency and oversight,” Cagle added. “And the sort of ‘just trust us’ approach to conducting surveillance of communities is not something that residents buy these days.”
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