{"id":5795,"date":"2020-06-03T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2020-06-03T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T22:34:14","slug":"the-long-ugly-history-of-how-police-have-tracked-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/03\/the-long-ugly-history-of-how-police-have-tracked-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"The long, ugly history of how police have tracked protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> many have overlooked how technology is fundamentally reshaping how demonstrations are monitored. Police have used everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2020\/5\/29\/21274828\/drone-minneapolis-protests-predator-surveillance-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Predator drones<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/carolinehaskins1\/george-floyd-protests-surveillance-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facial recognition<\/a> to track protesters, relying on tools developed for overseas wars to police dissent here at home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90511912\/the-long-ugly-history-of-how-police-have-tracked-protesters\">The long, ugly history of how police have tracked protesters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>many have overlooked how technology is fundamentally reshaping how demonstrations are monitored. Police have used everything from Predator drones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,439,443,434,436,432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-corruption","category-fascism","category-freespeech","category-privacy","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}