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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

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At around 4am, someone kept buzzing & buzzing the intercom. Everyone was at home so we ignored it.Then we heard heavy steps in the building. I found out just now that it was the police trying to get onto the roof. Apparently, their “gun detection” system was triggered in our area

@rerutled

@rerutled

I am just now hearing about “ShopStopper.” This combined with cameras I keep noticing on so many streets is pure what the fuck police fuckery. #NYC

NYPD will expand gun detection program called ShotSpotter to cover more parts of the city. h/t @rerutled

nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-…

That article is about NYPD using ShotStopper in #Harlem, where I live.

So basically, there are microphones on rooftops, on light poles, etc, that pick up and record sound and send it to a server. WTF

#NYPD #NYC

I am clearly late to knowing about this ShotSpotter thing. But I DO KNOW about the multiple ways the state and the police and their “protect and serve” so easily and readily violate civil liberties. e.g. cameras all over #London for fuck’s sake.

So now I know.

Ask - I keep calling it ShotStopper. It’s SHOTSPOTTER.

I don’t use any of those “Alexa, turn my lights on/Sisi, is my dinner ready?” stuff because how the hell do we know they’re not recording and saving all that stuff.

Seriously, how do we know they’re not recording us?

In #Cairo, State Security tapped my phone and followed me. So I know what it’s like to be under surveillance. And here in #Harlem, police have microphones and cameras inn street corners, light poles and cameras.

So when we talk about facial recognition in #China we should also talk about microphones and cameras on street corners and rooftops and recognize the spectrum that connects us as citizens everywhere.

Fuck fascism.
Everywhere.

https://twitter.com/eff/status/1200901064989511680?s=21