The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests
Wired“There are lots of different tools that are available to law enforcement. Indeed, the legal landscape surrounding how law enforcement can use surveillance technologies has been hazy, explained Beth Haroules, a staff attorney for the New York branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, largely because the law hasn’t kept up with the pace with technological development. Tushar Jois, a City College of New York professor studying the intersection of privacy, technology, and censorship, said that police departments “would routinely drop evidence in their cases rather than share data” about their surveillance technology use. Beryl Lipton, a senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a tech-focused civil liberties nonprofit, said that many of the things law enforcement officials used to only dream of are now increasingly possible. “I think there's been a big shift in how we need to think about what it means to have an expectation of privacy in a public space,” Lipton said.
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