Members of the hacktivist group Anonymous have released sixty hours of footage of the raid by the New York Police Department against Occupy Wall Street on November 15, 2011. The footage posted is from the NYPD’s Technical Assistance Research Unit (TARU), a surveillance unit that is regularly present at political demonstrations to film police actions. [...]
Anonymous Releases Sixty Hours of NYPD Footage from Occupy Wall Street Raid |
| By: Kevin Gosztola Monday September 24, 2012 5:33 pm |
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The NYPD’s New For-Profit Ready-for-Export Supercomputer Surveillance System |
| By: Kevin Gosztola Thursday August 9, 2012 3:01 pm |
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief Ray Kelly, the NYPD, and Microsoft unveiled software yesterday that, with new developed capabilities, transforms the department’s already expansive network of surveillance cameras in Manhattan into a supercomputer system that seems like something straight out of a 1970s science fiction movie. Described in [...]
Yet Another AP Report Is Released on NYPD Spying on Muslims |
| By: Kevin Gosztola Friday March 9, 2012 11:35 am |
The release of “newly obtained documents” that clearly show the New York Police Department engaged in ethnic profiling and explicitly targeted Muslims seems to have become a weekly event. Each week, the Associated Press has some “secret files” that make it even more clear how illicit the acts of the NYPD were in the surveillance [...]
