Projects - surveillance

DOGE Master Database

Washington, DC

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.

The uneven reach of the state: A novel approach to mapping local state presence

Norway (Norge, Noreg)

A machine learning model trains on geo-located survey data to predict state presence.

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Street Level Surveillance

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

No Tech Criminalization in Education (NOTICE)

Minneapolis

The NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.

Automating School Surveillance: How Student Vape Detection Technologies Threaten to Expand the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Minnesota and Beyond

Minneapolis

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

Twin Cities Innovation Alliance

Minneapolis

Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.