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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints DC: The Road to Mass Surveillance
LOCATION:Penn Social
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 28% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nProfs and Pints DC presents: “The Road to Mass Surveillan
 ce\,” on the proliferation of automated license plate readers and the thre
 ats that they pose to our freedoms\, with Steven Keener\, a leading resear
 cher on such devices as an assistant professor of criminology and director
  of the Center for Crime\, Equity\, and Justice Research and Policy at Chr
 istopher Newport University.\n\nAdvance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and
  processing fees. Available at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof
 sandpints/dc-mass-surveillance .]\n\nAutomated License Plate Recognition (
 ALPR) cameras have popped up throughout the country\, with Flock Safety em
 erging as the predominant producer. They capture images of every passing v
 ehicle and feed that data into centralized databases\, giving tremendous p
 ower to track our movements on the road to both the government agencies th
 at use them and the private companies contracted to operate them.\n\nPropo
 nents of the technology praise it for helping to track stolen cars\, felon
 y suspects\, and missing persons. But it also has been used by law enforce
 ment officers to stalk ex-partners\, and its misreads of license plates ha
 ve led to false accusations of crimes. Data from the cameras have been sha
 red with entities that are not supposed to be allowed access\, and attempt
 s have been made to use such data to track individuals attending protests 
 or crossing state lines to access health care that their own state banned.
  People have hacked into the cameras and the data they gather and broadcas
 t that information on YouTube.\n\nLearn in depth about ALPR cameras and th
 e debate over their use and regulation with Steven Keener\, the lead autho
 r of the first geospatial analysis of this emerging technology\, “Surveill
 ance Inequality: Race\, Poverty and the Geography of Automated License Pla
 te Reader Cameras.”\n\nDr. Keener will provide an overview of how ALPR cam
 eras operate\, describing what images are captured of each passing vehicle
 \, what happens to those images in the short term\, the lifecycle of the d
 ata that the cameras collect\, and how the cameras are operated jointly by
  local police and private surveillance companies.\n\nHe’ll offer insights 
 on the comprehensive\, expansive database that has been built using the im
 ages captured by ALPR cameras\, describing where that information is store
 d\, who has access to it\, how long it can be accessed and for what reason
 s\, and what happens when the dataset is tapped into for investigations an
 d criminal cases. You’ll learn about where cameras are placed and about tr
 ends in their use.\n\nDr. Keener will look at the risks of such a comprehe
 nsive dataset of individuals' daily movement patterns and bring you up to 
 speed on court cases challenging ALPR surveillance systems on grounds such
  as the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure.
  We’ll look at rigorous debates at the local level over whether to maintai
 n or cancel contracts with the private surveillance companies and at effor
 ts by state lawmakers in Virginia and elsewhere to put guardrails on such 
 technology.\n\nDr. Keener\, a critic of ALPR systems who actively works wi
 th community organizations evaluating the cancellation of ALPR contracts\,
  will equip talk attendees with the knowledge to engage in local advocacy.
  (Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The tal
 k starts 30 minutes later.)\n\nImage: Traffic in downtown Los Angeles (Pho
 to by Prayitno / Creative Commons).
URL:https://www.meetup.com/profs-and-pints-meetup/events/315533881/
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