US - #CNBC How Police Track Protesters With High-Tech Surveillance Tools: CNBC 1.65M subscribers

As protests over the police killing of George Floyd continue, law enforcement is using powerful surveillance tools to track them. Here's how drones, facial recognition software, cell phone tracking devices and automatic license plate readers are changing protesting and policing.

Covid-19 is being used as a tool to push a corporate agenda of privatization, marketization, surveillance + control. See @democracynow's w/ @NaomiAKlein.

Screen New Deal: Naomi Klein on How Companies Like Google Plan to Profit in High-Tech COVID Dystopiahttps://t.co/xVkWKcFYHn

— Andrea Loken (@AndreaLoken) June 17, 2020

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"The police in #China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males, giving the authorities a powerful new tool for their emerging high-tech surveillance state."https://t.co/dn5pyJDWUK pic.twitter.com/1FvNL5fNAT

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) June 17, 2020

"Police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males, giving the authorities a powerful new tool for their emerging high-tech surveillance state."https://t.co/raFF3ZCvDb

— Theresa Fallon (@TheresaAFallon) June 17, 2020

The sports players aren’t the sharpest tool in the box. Defund the police = use the army and high-tech instead. Surveillance grid, algorithms, tracking, etc. They’ll sack 1,000s if officers and use drones, cameras, google maps and gps, atm use, bankcard use tracking to police us.

— Tough Bamboo (@ToughBamboo) June 17, 2020

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