EFF's Atlas of Surveillance Database Now Documents 10,000+ Police Tech Programs

This week, EFF's Atlas of Surveillance project hit a bittersweet milestone.

With this project, we are creating a searchable and mappable repository of which law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use surveillance technologies such as body-worn cameras, drones, automated license plate readers, and face recognition. It's one of the most ambitious projects we've ever attempted. 

Working with journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), our initial semester-long pilot in 2019 resulted in 250 data points, just from the …

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