POGO: Surveillance state or dystopian fiction?

Score: 100%

4/4 points

Surveillance state or dystopian fiction?

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1. Law enforcement has used facial recognition technology to identify protestors.

Fact

Fiction

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Fact. Baltimore police used face recognition to scan crowds protesting the killing of Freddie Gray in police custody. They identified individual protesters in the crowd by matching them to images on social media.

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2. Police use a tool that lets them download text messages from all the phones within its range — which can be up to a mile.

Fact

Fiction

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Fact. Stingrays, or cell-site simulators, are used by law enforcement to collect data including GPS locations, call histories, and text messages from all nearby cell phones. Police sometimes use these devices to collect data from large groups of people, even without a warrant.

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3. Our government is storing the communications of an unknown number of its citizens.

Fact

Fiction

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Fact. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorized the government to collect the communications of foreign targets and store that information in databases for years at a time. But the phone calls, emails, and text messages of Americans who communicate with people abroad are also swept into the databases, and the CIA, FBI, and NSA have been known to search these databases for information on Americans, without a warrant.

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4. If law enforcement agencies want your location data, they don’t need a warrant — they can just buy it.

Fact

Fiction

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Fact. Existing laws require police to obtain a warrant in order to search cell phone location data. But police and other agencies have found their way around these requirements by simply purchasing the information directly from data brokers.

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