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Thanks for reading and sharing! Stay curious, stay critical, build power!

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Pp. 54-61 Pg 54 – LASER dismantled theatlantic.com/politics/archi Profile on

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's fight against predictive policing & how they dismantled LAPD’s Operation LASER. Pg 57 – Scissor cutting ties washingtonpost.com/news/the-switc Article on Amazon employees fighting to cut ties with ICE.

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Pp. 46-53 Pg 52 resource – San Francisco, Oakland, Somerville vice.com/en_us/article/ Talks about facial recognition bans.

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Pp. 38-45 Pg 39 resource – People in line theguardian.com/technology/201 How facial recognition is racist and disproportionately harms Black people.

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A drawing of the operator figure smugly showing the long terms and condition scroll that the selfie signed to the selfie. The text reads: You think we're the bad guys, But you had choices too. You made all the wrong ones, Now you're stuck here - boo hoo!

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Pp. 36-37 Pg 36 resource – Incriminating Footage marketplace.org/shows/marketpl How protesters are targeted by law enforcement through facial recognition technology, references Baltimore’s use of facial recognition tech during uprising after Freddie Gray's murder to target protesters.

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Pp. 34-35 Pg 34 – Ha! Caughtcha Cam! theintercept.com/2019/11/26/ama Amazon Ring planned ‘Watch Lists’ based on Facial recognition software. Page 35 – ‘Confirmed’ nytimes.com/2020/06/24/tec Story about Robert Julian-Borchak Williams, who was recently wrongfully arrested based on FR.

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Pp. 32-33 Pg 32 resource – Tagging widget slate.com/technology/201 This article explains how Facebook has amassed the largest database of faces through the tagging function and why that’s bad.

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Pp. 28-31 Pg 31 resource – Phone unlocking vox.com/recode/2020/7/ Article about how facial recognition is becoming more prevalent in consumer products, how they are being linked to facial recognition databases, and normalizing facial recognition/surveillance in general.

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Pp. 24-27 Pg 26 resource – Machine sucking in faces cnet.com/news/amazon-is Article about Amazon’s Rekognition software

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Pp. 20-23 Pg 21 resource – faces being collected forbes.com/sites/thomasbr This article talks about how companies like Face-Int collect photos of faces to build a facial recognition database.

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Pp. 16-19 Pg 19 resource: “Even places where labor laws are fewer than few” wired.com/2014/10/conten This is an article that talks about content moderation firms in the Philippines.

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A drawing of a number of polaroid selfies, drawn with arms and legs, being carried across the globe by giant claws with wings, to a building labeled Data Cleaning Inc. The text reads, You’ll zip cross country, You’ll be part of a crew! Even places where labor laws, Are fewer than few.

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Pp. 8-15 Pg 10 resource: Terms & Conditions codingrights.org/docs/ConsentTo This is a link to a slideshow that talks about how we don’t get real consent because these social networks have a monopoly on digital communications.

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The selfie of the person with shoulder-length black hair stands behind the storage sign with other photos, of well-known memes such as the big brain meme and a random picture of a duck. The femme selfie looks a little confused. The text reads No! You say, Because here you’ll be stuck Between seven memes And a weird-looking duck.

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A drawing of a Polaroid selfie of a person with shoulder-length black hair, with arms and legs, heading down a path towards what looks like an amusement park. There is a gate through which a ferris wheel and a rollercoaster are seen. The femme selfie's facial expression looks excited. The text reads: And just as you leave, On the horizon you see A sparkling place Which you head towards with glee

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You can read the whole thing at our website (freerads.org/dataseuss), but for the first time we're going to upload the entire thing here (w/image descriptions)! We'll also link to relevant resources that give real-life examples/info about the ~wacky~ goings on in the story.

Oh, the Places Your Data Will Go!

This post is part of a series of zines that Free Radicals presented at Tiny Tech Zines on August 11, 2019. To see other zines in the series, click HERE. Zine-troduction An innocent selfie gets uplo…

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"Oh, The Places Your Data Will Go" is a zine about an innocent selfie who gets uploaded to Instagram and goes on a journey that’s a bit more than she bargained for. And it's (unfortunately) more than relevant to the current Lensa AI conversations.

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Oh, so you wanna catch up on the impacts of selfie-related facial recognition, AI model training, and data stealing/sharing/selling? But you want it fully illustrated and in rhyming verse and as a Dr. Seuss parody? HAVE WE GOT THE THING FOR YOU (🧵)

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Solidarity with

student workers! ✊🏿 This building is the site of a disgusting piece of "art" celebrating UCLA's role in the racist and discredited PredPol "predictive policing" program, developed with LAPD and tested on our communities.

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LIVE - workers are occupying the @UCLA Luskin Conference Center. We'll be here all night!

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"My people are known as the Salmon People. To sustain our wild salmon is to sustain our culture and our way of life," says Rachel Heaton, Muckleshoot Tribal Member and co-founder of

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Different communities have different traditions, but for Salmon People collectively, wild salmon are a sacred gift from the Creator, to be honored & protected. For many, genetically engineered salmon is a threat to their heritage, sustenance, livelihood, and sovereignty 9/

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Opposition to GE salmon has been led by Indigenous communities from the Pacific Northwest who identify as #SalmonPeople. In 2021,

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Alarming stuff. If AQB’s salmon comes to market, it'd open door to unlabeled GE animal products. AQB says we need it bc no wild salmon left. Indigenous #SalmonPeople say otherwise. Nature >>> engineering. We know eliminating dams & factory trawler bycatch will restore wild salmon

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THREAD: Whistleblower comes forth with horrendous conditions at genetically-engineered salmon facility — raising concerns about new GE salmon farm in Ohio run by same company, #AquaBounty. (P.S. This is part 1! Strap in kids, a lot of damning evidence & important context here) 1/

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Replace PredPol with any policing algorithm & this final page from our guide to PredPol w/

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still holds true. Abolish carceral tech AND abolish the institutional/structural actors that will continue to replace them (see Algorithmic Ecology freerads.org/2020/03/02/the)

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This isn't the only way liberals are working to revive "predictive policing" after we shut that shit down in Los Angeles and helped discredit it more broadly. Here's the L.A. Times yesterday promoting a new attempt from academics working with police: latimes.com/california/sto

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The idea behind "predictive policing" is that you can "predict crime" using data from past policing. In reality these "predictions" are always just cover for justifying police choices, spending, and violence. Read our zine with

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PredPol is LAPD’s Racist Predictive Policing Program

This post is part of a series of zines that Free Radicals presented at Tiny Tech Zines on August 11, 2019. To see other zines in the series, click HERE. Police departments have always used a range …

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We wrote in detail about PredPol and Brantingham in our Automating Banishment report: - PredPol's origins and premise automatingbanishment.org/section/2-arch - PredPol's deployment in Skid Row automatingbanishment.org/section/4-Cont - PredPol's effort to rebrand as "community policing"

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Automating Banishment

'Reform' of Data-Driven Policing and 'Predictive Policing 2.0'

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This fool is complaining that Jeff Brantingham, who UCLA and the U.S. Army paid to start the for-profit PredPol company, got "canceled" because people criticized his racist business.

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My friend & collaborator, Joe Manson, explains why he is retiring from academia & leaving his full Professorship at UCLA. “I’m a professor, retiring at 62 because the woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life….” He has stories. josephhmanson.com/2022/07/04/why

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"we want to build power, not paranoia" thank you for this panel yall ❤️‍🔥

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Will be co-facilitating this @stoplapdspying and @freeradsorg workshop on exposing, mapping, and dismantling Algorithmic Ecologies at @AlliedMediaConf - 7/10 at 10am. Community-led (as opposed to state or institutional) research, action, and care always.

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Starting tomorrow, we're hosting two sessions at

@AlliedMediaConf

: DATA-DRIVEN POLICING ON STOLEN LAND Thursday 6/30 at 11am PST EXPOSING ALGORITHMIC ECOLOGIES (with

) Friday 7/1 at 8am PST Register at amc.alliedmedia.org!

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Will be co-facilitating this

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Join us at UCLA tomorrow (Tuesday 5/3) to demand UC divest from militarism and the police state! ✊🏾

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Year after year,

has proposed record-breaking increases to LAPD funding. Read more about the growth of LAPD's budget in our zine, LAPD BUDGET CREEP: stoplapdspying.org/zine-lapds-bud

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BREAKING:

's budget proposal out today allocates LAPD more funding than ever before in history. If this proposal is approved, then LAPD's operational budget will have increased 54% since Garcetti became mayor, and total LAPD spending will have increased $950 MILLION.

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As

fails upward into the Biden administration, L.A. knows what his legacy here is: increasing the criminalization of poverty, increasing LAPD surveillance, and increasing LAPD's budget by 48%. Read our Budget Creep zine with

: stoplapdspying.org/zine-lapds-bud

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Breaking: Mayor Garcetti’s nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to India was confirmed today by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. latimes.com/california/sto

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“Abolitionists are sometimes told that we only criticize, that we are too focused on dismantling not building. Our work is building community, growing community power, and uplifting community expertise. What are reformers building besides new policies that are used to hunt us?”

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Data-Driven Policing: Abolition Requires a Culture of Resistance Read our new article in @C_Resistance's The Abolitionist: stoplapdspying.org/data-driven-po

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This video (part 1 of 2) was taken last week by General Dogon when he encountered a LAHSA worker speaking with the residents of an encampment in Skid Row. #share #retweet #thread 1/9

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This zine comes out of our #DefundSurveillance campaign run in collaboration with our comrades

. That campaign is working to dissect and defund LAPD's $3.1 billion budget. Read more here: defundsurveillance.org

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With these documents in hand, we have an opportunity to better understand the LAPD’s ever ballooning budget. If you have a sharp eye for accounting or simply want to help defund and dismantle the police, join us in reviewing these budget docs! Email us at stoplapdspying@gmail.com

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We created this zine after trying to get records on the LAPD’s budget and being given the run around by the LAPC, the City Controller, and the City Administrative Officer. We sued all three, and recently received the full LAPD Budget for the current year and the last 12 years!

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Did you know that $250M of additional LAPD funding is hidden away in other departments? The LA Public Library System alone spends $10.4M annually on LAPD officers annually! That number grew nearly ten-fold from $1.1M in 2013, under Garcetti. stoplapdspying.org/zine-lapds-bud

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