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 .p106 [[ https://mnartists.walkerart.org/author/shanai-matteson | Shanai Matteson ]] arrested for conspiracy after discussing a planned protest on Facebook
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=== PART III: RESPONSES WHEN EVERYTHING IS EVIDENCE === PART III: RESPONSES WHEN EVERYTHING IS EVIDENCE ===

Your Data Will Be Used Against You

Policing In the Age of Self-Surveillance

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson . 2026 . 342.0858 FER . Tigard Library


PART I: OUR WORLD DIGITALLY TRANSFORMED

  • p013 - 1. Our Homes

  • p031 - ch 2. Our Things

  • p036 n47 How Your New Car Tracks You Matt Burgess 2023

  • p037 n50 Tesla Workers Share Vehicle Images

  • p038 Turned off phone "almost as incriminating"
  • p040 Placement of GPS tracker on car, United States v. Jones 5 Justices cite reasonable expectation of privacy, Scalia: placement is search, either way a warrant is required

  • p041 Sotomeyer: impacts communities, suceptable to abuse

  • p043 geofence warrant Chatrie v. United States, pending Supreme Court case

  • p043 Geofence area 150 meter radius around bank 3.5 times area of NYC block (40 homes near our house)
  • p044 Google 3-step process, requires filing of three separate requests to protect customer data
    • Judge Hannah Lauck called first warrant overinclusive

    • resembles general warrant, unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment
  • p045 requires searching through ALL of Google's data, broadest search ever attempted
  • p045 Virginia magistrate David Bishop signed warrant; not a lawyer or technologist, just a i.edu/academics/criminal-justice/#CriminalJusticeSchedule 3 year graduate with 60 credit hours of courses, many about the Bible, one "American Government" course that mentioned the Constitution

  • p046 Scott Durvin tracked and questioned after friend dies of heroin overdose

  • p047 7000 hours of warrant based phone tracking by Virginia police in 2020
  • p047 You gave your data to a third-party company; they can sell it, the police can buy it.
  • p047 Ron Wyden The Fourth Amendment is not for sale act Wyden 2021 Press Release

  • p048 Living without a phone or car not practical for many people
  • p048 carceral state social control and prison

    • Vonnegut's story Harrison Bergeron Diana Moon Glampers, United States Handicapper General

  • p049 Wearable Tech Surveillance

  • p049 Apple AirTag - locates "lost" luggage behind airport wall

    • KL anonymized ACTIVE tags should be attached TEMPORARILY to luggage and trackable with a DISPOSABLE QR code on baggage claim tag. The luggage tags should not leave the airport (with a thief)



  • p068 - ch 4. Our Cities

  • p071 New York Mayor Eric Adams n33 Big Brother is Protecting You

  • p077 Baltimore AIR surveillance program ruled unconstitutional, but only in 4th Circuit court MD VA NC SC WV

  • p077 surveillance-primed police more suspicious and violent
  • p078 Automated licence plate readers

  • p078 71 California police departments violated state law by sharing ALPR data with non California agencies
  • p080 Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission chair detained for ALPR mistake
  • p083 Studies do not show that increased surveillance does not sustain a decrease crime rate
    • no surprise there, catching criminals doesn't stop other criminals
  • p083 what many property owners and business interests "want deep down"
    • paywalled article reference to Target turning all (??XXXXXBlack) neighbors into suspects

    • not about m[[ |easuring internal psychological desires of individuals
  • p084 pattern and practice violations ... can we accelerate this process with automation?

  • p085 Blue Data extending data-driven policing to police accountability


  • p086 - ch 5. Our Papers

  • p089 A single terabyte can store as much data as a 12 story library.
    • If a book is 500,000 letters/bytes, (NOT counting pictures), then a terabyte is 2 million books. 24 story Shanghai library is 5 million books, 26 story WEB Dubois library is 6 million books, so a "12 story library" is roughly correct. A picture book library is far fewer stories per terabyte of images.
  • p089 claims companies needed to edit and share documents, email. Some of us do these things with our own machines.
  • p090 hypothetical about payment app history could suggest meth manufacture
  • p091 Google warrants disclosed, 30,030 warrants for 42,518 accounts, 86% "some information" ... etc.
    • Kagi suggests using Privacy Pass (firefox/chrome) and Tor browser

    • Debian supports Firefox and Tor and Chromium, not proprietary chrome
  • p092 police extract smartphone data during traffic stops
  • p095 searches not secret, "no-charge" companies monetize them, no expection of privacy
  • p096 few users download emails, most store in "cloud" (provider's servers, subject to law enforcement access and snooping)
  • p097 multiple Congresses acknowledge need for ECPA updates, do nothing

  • p102 Until the Supreme Court rule, safety of data on devices remains questionable
  • p103 Signal, end to end encryption, Android/iPhone/(Linux+Phone)


PART II: CONSEQUENCES WHEN EVERYTHING IS EVIDENCE


  • p125 - ch 7. Power Problems


  • p140 - ch 8. Privacy Problems


  • p151 - ch 9. Praxis Problems

PART III: RESPONSES WHEN EVERYTHING IS EVIDENCE


  • p175 - ch 10. Judicial Responses


  • p195 - 11. Legislative Responses


  • p215 - 12. Individual Responses

  • p218

  • p220

  • p221

  • p224

  • p225

  • p226

  • p227


  • p228 - Conclusion: The Tyrant Test
  • p245 Notes
    • p245 Introduction - 31 notes
    • p246 ch 1 - Our Homes - 125 notes
    • p252 ch 2 - Our Things - 113 notes
    • p256 ch 3 - Our Bodies - 124 notes
    • p263 ch 4 - Our Cities - 115 notes
    • p269 ch 5 - Our Papers - 93 notes
    • p272 ch 6 - Our Likes - 114 notes
    • p278 ch 7 - Power Problems - 46 notes
    • p281 ch 8 - Privacy Problems - 25 notes
    • p282 ch 9 - Praxis Problems - 72 notes
    • p286 ch 10 - Judicial Responses - 51 notes
    • p288 ch 11 - Legislative Responses - 46 notes
    • p290 ch 12 - Individual Responses - 34 notes
    • p292 Conclusion: The Tyrant Test - 37 notes
  • p295 Index
  • p311 About the Author

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