René Merced :vm: 🇵🇷<p>No-Bid ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Being Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job</p><p>The $73 million deal for assisting with deportations went to a company whose executives are accused of retaliating against a fellow ICE worker. </p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CriminalOrganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalOrganization</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/isolationism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>isolationism</span></a></p>
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AIF-Massachusetts<p>A piece of knowledge many white non-immigrant English-speaking folks may need to absorb and internalize in this moment:</p><p>These government police forces acting brutally towards immigrants? They were always like that. </p><p>ICE and other policing forces in this country are fundamentally corrupt. In fact, the entire systems of "policing" and "border control" in America have racist and xenophobic origins.</p><p>If our country survives this coup attempt with democracy intact, these systems will need to be left behind or rebuilt from the ground up with a new vision. Otherwise we will be trading overt fascism for fascism lite.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckICE</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/legacy-racism-within-us-border-patrol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">americanimmigrationcouncil.org</span><span class="invisible">/research/legacy-racism-within-us-border-patrol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops-112816" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-racist</span><span class="invisible">-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops-112816</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/13/876628302/the-history-of-policing-and-race-in-the-u-s-are-deeply-intertwined" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2020/06/13/876628302/t</span><span class="invisible">he-history-of-policing-and-race-in-the-u-s-are-deeply-intertwined</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.vera.org/news/its-2024-and-slavery-isnt-over-in-the-u-s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vera.org/news/its-2024-and-sla</span><span class="invisible">very-isnt-over-in-the-u-s</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Trump is halfway to making America a police state</p><p>To some extent it always has been. A rag tag of local forces, often racist, badly trained and poorly run by elected police chiefs and judges. But now the constitution is being ignored by El Presidente as well.</p><p>'It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum. '</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/20250415113443/https://www.ft.com/content/4c4b0f14-3e85-4436-94de-204d3f518f3c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/20250415113443/http</span><span class="invisible">s://www.ft.com/content/4c4b0f14-3e85-4436-94de-204d3f518f3c</span></a> (archive)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeclineAndFall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeclineAndFall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FascistState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistState</span></a></p>
COPS campaign<p>Major new spycops resource! The Undercover Research Group have launched their new site <br><a href="https://spycopsresearch.info/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">spycopsresearch.info/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It's not for beginners, more for those wanting to take a deeper dive into the public inquiry & all the info it's published - secret files, profiles of officers, mapping organisational structure. Huge amount of material & a lot more to come!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicinginquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicinginquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ucpi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ucpi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cointel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cointel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infiltration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infiltration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>“Those participating in disorder were not policed more strongly because of their supposed political views but because they were throwing missiles, assaulting police officers and committing arson.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/FarageRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarageRiots</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/two-tier-policing-kier-starmer-riots-b2732581.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/uk/home</span><span class="invisible">-news/two-tier-policing-kier-starmer-riots-b2732581.html</span></a></p>
doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nullagent</span></a></span> <br>Of course the best answer (for a given definition of best) is to avoid the region and make it as unprofitable as practicable, while finding ways to support conventional policing and strengthen democratic institutions in other regions.</p><p>So it is therefore clearly on a completely unrelated note that I share this link to amusing printed masks of your favourite topical celebrities and politicians, (from a Chinese supplier, please do share a link to manufacturers in friendlier states, if anyone has one).</p><p><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008613350140.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aliexpress.com/item/1005008613</span><span class="invisible">350140.html</span></a></p><p>🤪 </p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/machineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>machineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/facialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facialRecognition</span></a></p>
Douglas Edwards 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇪🇺<p>If we in the <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> manage to get our country back from the current <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a>, and we still think government is a good idea (I'm not trying to resolve the question of <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> right now), we need to recognize first of all that we can't go back to the prior status quo. Certain core aspects of that system got us into this mess, and will require fundamental change.</p><p>(1) Our <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> system needs overhaul. The right to vote needs to be recognized explicitly as a RIGHT, not a privilege for each state to regulate largely as it pleases. In particular, no criminal conviction should ever be able to impair the right to vote; racist abuse of the criminal law has been used to accomplish widespread disenfranchisement of minorities. Also, we need to recognize that winner-take-all voting systems are utterly incompatible with genuine democracy. If you ever have to ask whether you can afford to vote for who you really want, as opposed to voting for the lesser evil, you do not live in a democracy. Something like proportional representation, ranked-choice voting, or instant-runoff voting is not a luxury; some such system is a minimum requirement for authentic democracy.</p><p>(2) To hell with "<a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a>". Any protection it supposedly offered us has been purely illusory. Indeed, it was never intended to safeguard the people. It was designed by an elite who deeply distrusted the people, in order to safeguard their wealth and power FROM the people. A legislature answerable to the people is the best safeguard for their rights that any government can hope to offer. Autonomy for the judicial and executive functions of government, as separate "branches" outside the control of the legislature, has brought nothing good. Throughout most of its history, an autonomous Supreme Court has consistently defended the most depraved policies of private power against legislative efforts to control them; and now it has aided and abetted the autonomous Presidency in fulfilling its inherent tendency to degenerate into a <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a>. Put the courts and all executive functions under full legislative control, to be granted only such limited and conditional autonomy as the legislature sees fit to offer them.</p><p>(3) We will need to overhaul our understanding of what the right of <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> consists in. I do not like the unclear slogan "money is not speech"; but the right of INDIVIDUALS to speak freely is what must be safeguarded, and if that is to be accomplished, we cannot allow private capital to monopolize control over the media of communication, much less recognize an inviolable right for private capital to buy such control. Also, we may need to place severe restrictions — as <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> has done — on organized promotion of certain ideas that involve a systematic attempt to suppress the very existence, let alone the free expression, of others. A <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> march has more in common with a brandished weapon than with a discussion of fascist ideas in, say, a university classroom or a private home.</p><p>These changes (1)–(3) will not, of course, be sufficient by themselves. I have not addressed issues as fundamental as who will own the means of <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>production</span></a>, whether people should be guaranteed an unconditional <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BasicIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BasicIncome</span></a> (<a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/UBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UBI</span></a>), or how (and whether) <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> should be done. But (1)–(3) will still be needed, no matter how a host of other basic questions are to be resolved.</p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tasers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tasers</span></a> & Excited Delirium</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9nLQx3qQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9nLQx3qQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnOliver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnOliver</span></a> discusses whether Tasers are as safe and effective as the company that makes them claims, the broader effect Tasers have had on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a>, and why you shouldn’t test Tasers out on any of your family members. You’d think that goes without saying, but clearly it doesn’t. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/f12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>f12</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>LA Times: A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD — then drama ensued</p><p>"...The LAPD’s lack of a formal data-sharing agreement with Flock opens the door for federal authorities to potentially request information from the company about an immigrant’s whereabouts — undercutting the city’s promise not to cooperate in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, warned Tiff Guerra, an organizer with the activist group Stop LAPD Spying. ..."</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-10/cheviot-hills-license-plate-readers-lapd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/california/story/2</span><span class="invisible">025-04-10/cheviot-hills-license-plate-readers-lapd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/flock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flock</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>The UK's murder prediction AI will create a dangerous, criminalising loop.</p><p>This tech repackages flawed police data as neutral. Then replicates itself.</p><p>The existing over-policing of racialised, low income and migrant communities will be hardwired into police operations.</p><p>We need <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/SafetyNotSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SafetyNotSurveillance</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/PreCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PreCrime</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a></p>
doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>glyph</span></a></span> <br>I hear you.</p><p>My favourite (perhaps less jarring?) example is when a court declares they have found someone guilty, and that their threshold of guilt is "on balance of odds".</p><p>I look at the lawyers and the witnesses and realise that none of them has studied actuarial or probability mathematics. I wouldn't even trust them to understand a bet on the horses. For a scientist to watch them is like observing a cargo cult. Worse, I am sure, is for a scientist to find themselves on the receiving end of such a court.</p><p>I would offer the meagre consolation that you can see the feedback loops that drive them to behave so, where they think themselves to have free will.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/actuarial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuarial</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/odds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>odds</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/scientificInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientificInquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/systemsArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemsArchitecture</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cargoCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cargoCult</span></a></p>
Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)Labour suspends MP Dan Norris after arrest <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-suspends-mp-dan-norris-after-arrest/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-suspends-mp-dan-norris-after-arrest/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/britishpolitics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Britishpolitics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/lawenforcement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lawenforcement</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/environment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/elections" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elections</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/policing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Policing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/media" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a>
Open Rights Group<p>The Data Bill strips back your right to human review of automated decisions that have life-changing impacts.</p><p>It flips the script, forcing you to prove a mistake has been made when AI gets it wrong – the scales of justice further imbalanced.</p><p>Sign our petition ⬇️</p><p><a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai-says-no-tell-keir-starmer-that-people-not-machines-should-oversee-life-changing-decisions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions</span><span class="invisible">/ai-says-no-tell-keir-starmer-that-people-not-machines-should-oversee-life-changing-decisions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DataBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DUABill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DUABill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/dataprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataprotection</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/automateddecisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automateddecisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>Even the limitation on automated decision-making using 'special category data' could be sidestepped by relying on the loophole of 'authorised by law' in the UK Data Bill.</p><p>The letter warns that "police will be able to conduct ADM without limitation and to conduct ADM involving sensitive data with very few limitations."</p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DataBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DUABill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DUABill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/dataprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataprotection</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/automateddecisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automateddecisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>Automated decisions could be made in policing "on the basis of their socioeconomic status, regional or postcode data, inferred emotions, or even regional accents."</p><p>The UK Data Bill puts marginalised groups at risk of opaque and unfair automated decisions that replicate inherent biases in the data.</p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DataBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DUABill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DUABill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/dataprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataprotection</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/automateddecisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automateddecisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>The UK Data Use and Access Bill strips away your right to not be subjected to life-changing decisions made solely by AI, apart from where special category data is used.</p><p>But, as the letter says, "there are many contexts in which non-special category personal data acts as a proxy for protected characteristics."</p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DataBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DUABill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DUABill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/dataprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataprotection</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/automateddecisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automateddecisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>The UK Data Bill could unleash unchecked automated decision-making in policing ⚠️👮</p><p>ORG has signed Big Brother Watch's open letter to warn that removing safeguards could greatly expand "possibilities for bias, discrimination and lack of transparency".</p><p>Read more ➡️ <a href="https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/rights-groups-and-academics-warn-home-secretary-of-law-enforcement-risks-in-data-bill/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/rights-groups-and-academics-warn-home-secretary-of-law-enforcement-risks-in-data-bill/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DataBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/DUABill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DUABill</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/dataprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataprotection</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/automateddecisionmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automateddecisionmaking</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a></p>
PapyrusBrigade<p>This aside blew my mind🤯 :</p><p>"The cops were founded in 1829 in London essentially as a counterinsurgency force and that has been the model for cops ever since."</p><p>From the Colonial Outcasts podcast episode "US-Israel: Breaking down the political ties"</p><p>In the 🧵 thread below...</p><p>1. What's counterinsurgency?<br>2. What was happening in London leading up to 1829?<br>3. Who do police protect?<br>4. What other police forces fit this model?</p><p>(1/5)<br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CounterInsurgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CounterInsurgency</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>Colonial carceral legacies<br>Incarceration and "military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures" for some</p><p>"A victim of crime advocacy group has quickly risen to prominence in Queensland and has been consulted on sweeping changes to youth justice laws."<br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/voices-for-victims-rise-to-prominence-queensland-government/105007040" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/voi</span><span class="invisible">ces-for-victims-rise-to-prominence-queensland-government/105007040</span></a></p><p>"First Nations human rights experts lodge UN complaint over 'racist' tough-on-crime laws"<br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/un-urged-to-rule-on-australias-youth-crime-laws/105116196" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/un-</span><span class="invisible">urged-to-rule-on-australias-youth-crime-laws/105116196</span></a></p><p>"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/first-nati</span><span class="invisible">ons-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612</span></a></p><p>"NT government-funded security patrol caught on camera kicking man in the head"<br>"Military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures."<br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nt-government-funded-security-guard-caught-on-camera-kicking-man/105060870" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nt-</span><span class="invisible">government-funded-security-guard-caught-on-camera-kicking-man/105060870</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/incarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incarceration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/HyperIncarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HyperIncarceration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Intervention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intervention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>metacurity</span></a></span> </p><p>> It was alleged that on 24 August 2022 Arshad took his work phone into a top-secret area of GCQH and connected the mobile device to a top-secret work station.</p><p>Holy smoke, that seems like a long investigation! I presume this is normal for forensic data analysis cases?</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/topSecret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>topSecret</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>espionage</span></a></p>
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