Government surveillance, past and present, has been utilized to target black, brown, queer, and working communities in the interest of public safety. However, the fact remains that surveillance does not reduce crime and only further criminalizes those same communities. Eye on Surveillance is a group of community members and organizations working together under two points of unity:
How we use Retrieval Augmented Generation to counteract city surveillance expansion
Israel’s investments in spyware and surveillance technology have direct implications for us and our neighbors.
Ord. 33021, passed in December 2020, banned four technologies that infringe upon our civil liberties and have built-in racial bias, & secured common sense data protections for the 21st century.
Through two community clean up events, one in the Lower 9th and one in the Desire neighborhood, EOS and partners came together to show that New Orleans can address dumping without surveillance.
New Orleanians pay surveillance companies millions of our tax dollars every year to watch us and our neighbors - the same surveillance tech was tested on Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
Read NowWe at the Eye on Surveillance Coalition, in solidarity with the American Friends Services Committee and organizers on the ground with the Stop Cop City movement, urgently call for action against the development of the militarized police training facility, "Cop City," in the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta.
Read NowHow a New Orleans group is using AI to counteract city surveillance expansion.
Read NowOn November 25, 2022 an innocent black man sat in jail for a week because of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff Office’s use of facial recognition. New Orleans also uses facial recognition and lacks safeguards to protect innocent residents.
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