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New to surveillance - why should I care?
Your data ends up in police and commercial databases through ordinary life: driving to work, calling 911, paying a utility bill. These explainers cover how that happens, and why it matters even if you’re doing nothing wrong.
Look up your area
We track surveillance agency by agency. Search the Accurint Files for hundreds of police departments confirmed or suspected to feed records into the LexisNexis database ICE searches. If you live in Minnesota, FlockFeed and ALPR Audit Watch cover your license plate readers camera by camera. And if we haven’t gotten to your city yet, request a Local Surveillance Report and we’ll send you mass surveillance details about your city, county, and state that are likely to impact you.
For a nationwide map of which surveillance technologies your local agencies use, EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance is the best resource going. We’re fans, and we use it ourselves.
Local Surveillance Report
Tell us where you live and we will look at what surveillance contracts and data pipelines touch your area.
Journalist
We prioritize awareness over self-promotion. We publish every step of our investigations, and when a finding deserves a bigger audience than ours, we bring it to major outlets that can put it in front of one. If you’re reporting on surveillance contracts or police data sharing, we’ll share the documents behind our findings and point you at the paper trail. Working on a story where we could help? Get in touch. How to cite us and how to reach us are on the journalist page.
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