Mass Surveillance

How Flock Is Building America’s Private Surveillance Infrastructure

August 12, 2026 AT and AB, Left Voice. Educate! Capitalism, Flock, Mass Surveillance, Police

In 2017 Garrett Langley, along with two other fellow Georgia Tech graduates, designed a purpose-built surveillance camera on his dining room table. He received positive feedback from a Georgia police detective, which inspired him to create what would become the United States’ largest automated license plate reading (ALPR) surveillance company and positioned himself as CEO. Within seven years following its founding, Flock had a meteoric rise in popularity among local law enforcement, claiming to have hardware installed in over 6,000 municipalities and 4,000 cities, across 42 states.

First Came Flock Cameras; Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones

August 11, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Educate! Drones, Flock Cameras, Mass Surveillance, Police

Police in cities across the U.S. are rolling out a pro-drone PR blitz as hundreds of local police departments prepare to deploy autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones. The drones are capable of following a single vehicle across an entire city, capturing footage through apartment windows, and generally recording daily life from the sky without being noticed. As of February, more than 1,000 law enforcement and public safety agencies had received waivers from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate autonomous surveillance drones as part of so-called “drone-as-first-responder” (DFR) programs, according to public records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and released in July.

Retailers Are Collecting Your Biometrics; Local Governments Fight Back

July 25, 2026 Victor Maung, Next City. Resist! Biometric Data, City Councils, Data, Mass Surveillance, Private Businesses

When shoppers walk into a grocery store, they expect security cameras. Few expect the store to analyze their faces, eyes, and voices. Earlier this year, customers entering some Wegmans stores in New York City learned that the retailer was using facial recognition technology in its locations and storing customers’ biometric data. The disclosure, required under a 2021 city ordinance governing biometric collection, initially drew little attention beyond the city. But when the Buffalo-based Investigative Post asked whether Wegmans was also using the technology in Western New York stores, the company’s lack of response drew concern from local lawmakers.

COINTELPRO 2.0

July 18, 2026 Caitlin Johnstone, Consortium News. Educate! Artificial Intelligence (AI), COINTELPRO, Drones, FBI, Mass Surveillance, Police

The Trump administration has announceda renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the western empire.” The United States has for example placed sanctions on U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for calling attention to Israeli atrocities in Gaza, justifying the move by claiming the human rights expert has “expressed support for terrorism”. In the U.K., police have been arresting people on terrorism charges just for holding signs which say “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.

SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News For Flock

July 11, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Organize! Flock Cameras, Mass Surveillance, Police, Supreme Court

Civil rights attorneys say a recent Supreme Court ruling in a landmark digital privacy case could put “wind in the sails” of local organizers challenging police deployment of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). However, those organizers in cities large and small still face both a powerful industry and police departments determined to outfit their forces with the latest tech. It will take more than a single Supreme Court ruling to unravel the rapidly growing system of AI-powered mass surveillance. The Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that so-called “geofence” requests issued by police departments to Big Tech companies for data from cellphones located within a certain geographical boundary at a specific time are considered a “search” under the Fourth Amendment.

New Report: Growing Partnership Between Surveillance Tech And ICE

June 26, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. Educate! Big Tech, Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Mass Surveillance

A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab, explains that billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been diverted for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contracts with surveillance and technology companies. DHS runs both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

How Washington Is Building A Surveillance State Without Calling It One

June 3, 2026 Jeffrey Wernick, Scheer Post. Educate! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Authoritarianism, Mass Surveillance, State Repression

The most effective systems of control rarely arrive wearing jackboots. They arrive wrapped in reassuring language about innovation, security, and public safety. In a blistering critique of the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence executive order, economist and commentator Jeffrey Wernick argues that Washington is quietly constructing something far more consequential than a technology policy: a framework for government-managed access to the most powerful AI systems ever created. Not through outright bans or formal licensing requirements, but through classified thresholds, privileged partnerships, and incentives that make resistance increasingly irrational.

A Nation Of Suspects

May 31, 2026 Andrew P. Napolitano, Consortium News. Educate! Authoritarianism, Fourth Amendment, ICE, Mass Surveillance

Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and without warrants. The spying seems to fall into several categories. The National Security Agency, which is in the Department of Defense, employs about 60,000 domestic spies.

Resistance To Flock Cameras And Police Surveillance Is Exploding

May 23, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Resist! Flock, Mass Surveillance, Police, State Repression

In communities large and small, red and blue, all across the United States, residents are filling local council meetings in opposition to the explosive growth of high-tech police surveillance systems. Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered surveillance cameras and Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) networks used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals, mounting privacy concerns, and public backlash to AI and mass surveillance under the authoritarian Trump administration. The cameras and their associated systems are capable of building complex profiles of people and vehicles as they move through public areas.

Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Makes Black Neighborhood A Lab For AI Policing

May 10, 2026 Adam Mahoney and Madeline Thigpen, Portside. Educate! Atlanta, Black Community, Cop City, Mass Surveillance, Militarization

When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement. For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew up in in DeKalb County, is raising his daughter in the same majority‑Black neighborhood, and cherished the forest trail where his family used to jog and ride bikes.

DHS Is Buying Access To Real-Time Location Data

May 1, 2026 Maurizio Guerrero, Scheer Post. Educate! Department of Homeland Security, Immigrant Rights, Mass Surveillance, Privacy

Despite serious concerns raised by dozens of federal legislators about the potential misuse of location technologies to violate rights, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a new contract to Penlink PLX, a surveillance system that intercepts, aggregates, and analyzes live communications from phone calls, texts, and internet activity. The platform enables DHS to track people’s movements in real time. The $2.9 million no-bid contract, reported for the first time by Prism, began April 1, with a potential award amount of $8.3 million.

Pentagon Sets Deadline For Anthropic To Lift AI Restrictions

February 25, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomous weapon systems, Mass Surveillance, Pentagon

The US Department of War has issued a deadline to AI company Anthropic to allow broader military use of its Claude models or face possible action under the Defense Production Act. The company could face losing its Pentagon contract, and has been threatened with a government blacklist, US media reports said. The Pentagon has a $200-million contract with Anthropic. The company has placed guardrails on the Claude AI, preventing its use for fully autonomous weaponry and mass domestic surveillance, triggering a standoff with US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Trump’s Embrace Of Dystopian Palantir Spying Tool Sends Stock Soaring

June 7, 2025 Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone. Educate! Alex Karp, Big Tech, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Keir Starmer, Mass Surveillance, Palantir, Peter Thiel

During an end-of-year investor call this February, Palantir co-founder and militant Zionist Alex Karp bragged that his company was making a financial killing by enabling mass murder. “Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies,” he stated, adding: “And on occasion, kill them.” On this front, Karp claimed Palantir was “crushing it,” and he professed to be “super-proud of the role we play, especially in places we can’t talk about.” Karp went on to predict social “disruption” ahead that would be “very good for Palantir.” “There’s a revolution.

The Leap Forward In Surveilling Americans

June 3, 2025 Consortium News. Educate! Mass Surveillance, NSA, Surveillance, Trump Administration

Collecting and connecting information on people enables an understanding of who a person is and in what activities they engage. Typically, such efforts have been focused on criminals and those persons seen as real or possible enemies of the government. Over recent years, however, we have seen the U.S. Government weaponize intelligence agencies to focus on American citizens for political reasons, as you are well aware from personal experience. Many such activities are unconstitutional and violations of other law. Congressional and judicial oversight has been ineffective. Indeed, no one in government has been prosecuted for engaging in the exploitation of information illegally collected on American citizens. No one.

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