Police Flew Drones Over One California City Nearly 20,000 Times in 6 Years
A WIRED investigation reveals the extent to which residents of Chula Vista are subjected to surveillance from the sky.
A WIRED investigation reveals the extent to which residents of Chula Vista are subjected to surveillance from the sky.
New online database details the shocking extent of intrusive surveillance tech used by American police.
A surveillance state is no less tyrannical when the snoops really believe it's for your own protection.
The Atlas of Surveillance lets us monitor the agencies that snoop on the public.
After gratuitously terrifying a 6-year-old girl, the officers blamed her mother, who also had done nothing illegal.
Mats Järlström's research never would have seen the light of day if the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying had its way.
Mass surveillance is up and running on Britain's roads. Will ours be next?
A patchwork of state-level systems accomplishes what Americans have specifically rejected, and perhaps far more.
And restricts how long data can be held.
A battle over license-plate readers is brewing in Virginia.
Reckless policy proposed as an anti-prostitution measure.
Don't get your hopes up. There's no way the feds are passing up this technology.
Big Sky Country, now with less creepiness.
What do you have to hide?
Don't be in the wrong place at the wrong time for too long!
You act differently when you know you're under observation
They have their eyes on you
Cops are building a massive database of public movements
Moats are too old-fashioned
But they'd never misuse that information, right?
Say it's a money grab, not for safety
The push back to the devices begins
What do you have to hide? Oh ... that.
Your trips up Route 1 to the Golden Banana? They know.
And the public is monitored and squeezed between them
Tiburon has license-plate readers monitoring both roads into town