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A space to research the relationship between protests and technology, cultivating dialog about freedom of expression, riots & disruptive tech.

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"Hacked Documents: How Iran Can Track and Control Protesters’ Phones" https://t.co/LHOIghCE5t

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"Tactics of repression: How Iran is trying to stop Mahsa Amini protests"

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How #Iran is trying to stop the #MahsaAmini protests:

Forensic analysis correlates authorities' use of indiscriminate force and internet restrictions to crush dissent.

🖊 @joyceslee, @stefanie_wp, @atthar_mirza and @BabakDehghan for the @WashingtonPost
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Facebook’s AI treats Palestinian activists like it treats American Black activists. It blocks them. https://t.co/cQf88VWYN3

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Los Angeles police used Amazon Ring footage to investigate police brutality protests https://t.co/8dkdXZ1NPW

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Police in Minneapolis reportedly used a geofence warrant at Floyd protest last year https://t.co/hR11c4iyYe via @Verge

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Myanmar coup: Internet shutdown as crowds protest against military https://t.co/I5om6IuDiz

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AI in police drones is raising new questions for civil rights. https://t.co/QaO9ZDj3yZ

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Massive Protests Sparked by Proposed Ban on Publishing Photographs of French Police https://t.co/H9E2xYXyNq

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How Technology Is Playing a Crucial Role in the #EndSARS Protests https://t.co/L7bIXzZc3A

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Activists around the world are developing facial recognition technology to identify police.
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The internet of protest is being built on single-page websites https://t.co/MqqnfTMqI2

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A guide to stingray phone tracking technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests https://t.co/nD8L93Wohx

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One messaging app helped protesters fight Alexander Lukashenko's digital blackout. https://t.co/ShZ73Bewup

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“Protest app” Bridgefy is full of flaws that threaten users everywhere https://t.co/HGvcCzx8Ir

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Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election https://t.co/KyFvyxV2VW

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Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes - "The social internet has sped up a long history of direct and indirect dialogue between protest movements around the world." https://t.co/hpwiN8Dzv2

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A guide to stingray phone tracking technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests https://t.co/nD8L93Wohx

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San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors https://t.co/uMftLnb3o4

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Dataminr has facilitated the surveillance of recent nonviolent protests, siphoning vast amounts of social media data from across the web and converting it into tidy police intelligence packages. https://t.co/sLyE8BGjfx #BLM

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An Air Force surveillance plane designed to carry state-of-the-art sensors typically reserved for war zones has been circling above Portland. https://t.co/0x6t0e6TRt