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Tag: intelligence

🦄 Investigative, Police, Tech

Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

An Israeli spy software tech firm licenses web surveillance tools to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The software contract shows new details about this sensitive technology DHS has used to spy on activists during the last several years.

🦄 Tech

Aimed at Protests, Surveillance Contractor’s New Owners Expand Spy Tech Portfolio

August 20, 2023June 15, 2024

In 2020, while protests raged in nearly every city in the United States, a privately owned Israeli spyware firm helped the Department of Homeland Security monitor the online presences of Americans—including protesters and journalists. That company is now set to join forces with competitors, creating…

🦄 Investigative, Police, Tech

Criminal Intel Files Show Facial Recognition, Warrantless Surveillance in Minnesota

December 20, 2022April 12, 2024

Minneapolis, MN – Documents obtained via a series of public records requests from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) provide rare insight into police intelligence gathering. The documents include case numbers in which facial recognition was used, details about systems that gain access to vehicle…

🦄 Borders & Migration , 🦄 Investigative , 🦄 Police , 🦄 Prison , 🦄 Racism & Far-Right , 🦄 Social Control
Unicorn Riot

Media: Icebreaker Pt 5 – ICE/HSI Undercover Operations & Otherwise Illegal Activities

By Unicorn Riot September 4, 2018 - 8:02 pmMarch 19, 2024 Permalink to video
🦄 Protest & Direct Action

DC Juggalo March vs FBI Overshadows Conservative “#MOAR” Gathering

September 16, 2017August 31, 2021

Washington, DC – Unicorn Riot was streaming live on Saturday, Sept. 16th from the National Mall as thousands of fans of the Detroit rap group Insane Clown Posse known as Juggalos gathered to send a message to the FBI that they should not be designated…

🦄 Investigative, Police, Protest & Direct Action, Social Control, Tech

Interview with Christopher Soghoian about Analyst’s Notebook

April 4, 2016January 9, 2020

For our story about the Denver Police Department’s use of the surveillance analytics software program Analyst’s Notebook, we were happy to be able to speak by telephone with Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union.  He answered some questions for us about…

🦄 Investigative, Police, Social Control

Revealed: Denver Police Using NSA-Grade Surveillance Software

April 4, 2016January 9, 2020
Unicorn Riot is currently investigating the Denver Police Department’s intelligence gathering practices including the use of specific intelligence software, as well as how surveillance practices relate to federal agencies and fusion centers. Through a search of ICWatch (a database of intelligence employee information hosted by …

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