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#PoliceAbuseTech: No Tech 4 Tyrants Report Launch
Among global movements to reckon with police powers, our new report documents how police abuse surveillance tech around the world
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Join us for the launch of "Surveillance Tech Perpetuates Police Abuse of Power", a new report unveiling how police use surveillance technology to abuse their power in the UK and globally.
Police use of technology exacerbates abuse – continuing longer histories of racism, sexism and colonialism in policing institutions around the world. Our report highlights how the recent rise in adoption of advanced technologies has created a dangerous environment where police can assert control or authority on a much larger scale. This report urges the public to move away from framing police abuse of surveillance technology as isolated incidents or problems of technological bias, and calls for political action that moves us towards a world without police. We call on researchers, technologists, and civil society groups to act in line with our findings and divest from surveillance technology and policing.
Shaped through collaboration with researchers and activists in the UK, US, Mexico, Brazil, Denmark and India, the report examines seven recent cases where police use of surveillance technology facilitates and perpetuates an underlying pattern of abuse of power.
NT4T highlights stories including law enforcement abusing police databases to stalk former romantic partners in the UK, police using ‘smart’ streetlights as video surveillance devices in San Diego, and private companies selling systems that incentivize the Danish Police to collect ever-increasing amounts of data on citizens.
About No Tech For Tyrants
No Tech For Tyrants (NT4T) is a UK-wide collective severing the links between the university, violent technology companies, and hostile immigration environments. NT4T organises, researches, and campaigns to dismantle the violence infrastructure at the intersection of ethics, technology, migration governance, and surveillance. Previous work includes campaigns against Big Tech recruitment at UK universities and the research report "All Roads Lead to Palantir: A review of how the data analytics company has embedded itself throughout the UK", authored with Privacy International.