In the News (#1676)

I built SparrowMap to give…the watchers a taste of how it feels to be watched. – Matthew Montney Jr. Torture Chamber (#1461) I’m sure they’ll try to thwart the court order with delays & halfway measures: A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s…prison[s]…by the end of 2029…at [present only] a third of the agency’s 104 [dungeons a]re fully air conditioned…[despite summer] conditions in Texas prisons without air conditioning [clearly] violat[ing] the Eighth Amendment [ban on]…cruel and unusual punishment… Eavesdropping (#1514) “Shot detection” systems are a boondoggle designed to manufacture false evidence for cops: Flock…sells a surveillance bundle…called the “Safe City” subscription…[which] includes the much-discussed ALPRs, along with a live video camera—and a gunfire microphone…[intentionally designed to] turn…lawful gun owners into criminal suspects based only on proximity…Cities also have deployed firearm detection systems that rely on [machine…