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Several spying drones with eyeballs
Deeplinks Blog by Beryl Lipton | January 16, 2026

Baton Rouge Acquires a Straight-Up Military Surveillance Drone

The Baton Rouge Police Department announced this week that it will begin using a drone designed by military equipment manufacturer Lockheed Martin and Edge Autonomy, making it one of the first local police departments to use an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a history of primary use in foreign...

sinister cop and cameras loom over street grid with cars identified by license plate numbers
Press Release | November 18, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance

SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose and its police department routinely violate the California Constitution by conducting warrantless searches of the stored records of millions of drivers’ private habits, movements, and associations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) argue in a lawsuit...
a sinister police robot types a report
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Dave Maass | July 10, 2025

Axon’s Draft One Is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of public records from police agencies already using...

An animated image showing location pins dropping onto a street map from above, tracing several paths
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | May 14, 2025

Montana Becomes First State to Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole

Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but easily fixed “data broker loophole.” This is a very good step in the right direction because right...

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