Surveillance

DHS’s Immigrant Tracking Tech Lays the Ground for Authoritarian Surveillance

Protestors holding a banner that advocates against ICE and big tech

Anita Say Chan reveals how new surveillance technologies employed by DHS and ICE to monitor, arrest, and deport immigrants have a long history rooted in eugenics profiling from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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A Deep State Affair

How the Right Fell out of Love with the FBI

Faith Lazar details the history of the U.S. Right’s relationship to the FBI and the security state, from the early days of the Red Scare and pro-government conservatives to the anti-state militias that arose in the aftermath of Waco.

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Old Problems, New Tricks

The AI-Enabled Far Right Hits the Elections Cycle

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While artificial intelligence (AI) itself might not be a problem, the way it’s being used by the Right is exacerbating a problem that marginalized communities have been warning us about since the inception of social media: disinformation.

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Innocent Until Proven Muslim

Author Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

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Dr. Maha Hilal talks to PRA about the pervasive and ongoing effects of the War on Terror domestically, the dehumanization of Muslims across the globe, and her work at Guantanamo Bay.

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Big Tech: Anti-Muslim Racism, Surveillance, and Violence in the 20 Years since 9/11

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

Anti-Muslim racism and policing has been a facet of U.S. White supremacy since the dawn of the Atlantic slave trade. In the two decades following 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S.…

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21st Century White Nationalism

9/11 and the Anti-Immigrant Movement

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More than two decades ago, during the 2000 election, leading anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) offered a glimpse of things to come. Amid his reelection campaign, FAIR targeted U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI…

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Tracking Blackness: A Q&A with Dark Matters Author Simone Browne

Simone Browne, an associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, describes her new book, Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness, as a conversation between Black Studies and Surveillance…

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When Secure Communities Meet Border Security

Looking at Michigan’s Fusion Centers

People standing on a platform with a table in front of them with a banner hanging off the table that says "A voice for Working America."

In the Winter 2009/Spring 2010 edition of The Public Eye, we reported on the rise of Intelligence Fusion Centers, created to coordinate the national security intelligence efforts of the Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Justice, CIA…

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Cruising on Military Drive

"Good" Latinos and "Bad" Latinos in the Age of Homeland Security and Global War

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If you want to understand how Homeland Security influences us, go to south Texas and take a walk around neighborhoods whose streets were paved by the “clash of civilizations” in cities and towns at or near the border. One such street is San Antonio’…

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Homeland Security

Low-Intensity Conflict Targets Non-Citizens

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Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the so-called war on terror has provided the U.S. government with a rationale for dramatically increasing state repression. This repression, linked with an upsurge of nationalism and nativist scapegoating,…

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