-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post How Far Will the Government Go in Collecting and Storing All Our Personal Data? New FBI Documents Shed Light on the Answer by Sunita Patel.
Thank you Jeff!
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post How Far Will the Government Go in Collecting and Storing All Our Personal Data? New FBI Documents Shed Light on the Answer by Sunita Patel.
Thank you!
-
Sunita Patel wrote a new diary post: How Far Will the Government Go in Collecting and Storing All Our Personal Data? New FBI Documents Shed Light on the Answer
By Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Scott Paltrowitz, Volunteer Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer equated GPS surveillance with the ultra-repressive government monitoring in George Orwell’s 1984 this week during the oral argument in United States v. Jones . The case asks whether the use of a GPS [...]
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
Thank you for your interest! Here are a few others:
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
Texas Civil Rights Review: Bob Libal: Secure Communities makes our community less safe http://texascivilrightsreview.org/wp/?p=2073 And here’s another: http://texascivilrightsreview.org/wp/?p=2073 “We in Travis County and around Texas know that Secure Communities makes our community less safe. We know that Secure Communities breeds fear into the community, driving our immigrant brothers and sisters further into the shadows. Secure [...]
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
And there are of course the unquantifiable costs– unreported crime, fear, separation of families.
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
Your biometric information IS like an ID. Your personal identifying information provides a way for the government to identify you and keep track of you. With a database that connects your fingerprints, iris scan, etc., with your name and background info, that serves the same purpose as forcing you to carry a national ID. (This [...]
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
The inefficiency is certainly a concern. It may lead citizens into the deportation dragnet. But seriously, check out the documents, it’s scary how much they are planning: http://uncoverthetruth.org/foia-documents/ngi-documents/
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
Many of the costs are “hidden” and therefore difficult to quantify. For example, prolonged incarceration times when non-citizens are kept locked up in local jails, even if a criminal court judge determines the person is not a danger or flight risk and sets no or a very low bond following an arrest.
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
Thanks for sharing Danny! And S-Comm is costing local cops a bundle. According to the Denver Post, the cost to each county to purchase updated equipment is an estimated $50,000, according to Christensen, the director of the County Sheriffs of Colorado organization. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18415336
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
Ron Hampton wrote a great op-ed explaining his position, as the President of the National Black Police Associationhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/30/AR2010043002052.html
-
Sunita Patel commented on the diary post The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It? by Sunita Patel.
Law enforcement has expressed several concerns. The primary one has been severing the gains made through community policing. Police are worried that crime victims will not call police when local police are acting as immigration officers. A video on this topic: http://uncoverthetruth.org/media/video/domestic-violence-victim-confronts-director-of-secure-communities/
-
Sunita Patel wrote a new diary post: The FBI Gets a “Bigger, Better, Faster” Database – but Who Gets to Use It?
By Sunita Patel and Gitanjali Gutierrez, Staff Attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Travis Hall, PhD Candidate at the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University Since 2006, the FBI has been quietly creating a massive new biometric database that is, in their words, “Bigger- Better- Faster.” Known as the “Next Generation [...]
-
Sunita Patel became a registered member
