By Carrie N. Baker | Jun 27, 2022
The Supreme Court may be turning back the clock 50 years on civil rights, but cutting-edge digital surveillance technologies will bring us an even darker future. In 1973, police didn’t have the surveillance tools that have become commonplace today — and every phone, laptop, and smart device could become a potential policing tool, with pregnant people’s location data and search histories mined for evidence, says a report from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.