WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

• surveillance
• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

• immigration

• Blockchain
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.

• surveillance
• place-based
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Hardware

An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• Red teaming

"An official website of the United States government" but mostly an embedded X feed

• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

• surveillance
• youth
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters: Research paper by TechEquity Collaborative

• housing
• landlord
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry.

• surveillance

• Data visualization
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.

• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns
• Reports

Philadelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence