Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
Catherine Crump: Os detalhes surpreendentemente pequenos e perigosos que a polícia recolhe sobre nós
Catherine Crump is an assistant clinical professor at Berkeley Law School who focuses on the laws around data and surveillance. Full bio
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on protestors in Ferguson, Missouri,
os manifestantes em Ferguson, no Missouri,
shooting of Michael Brown,
da polícia sobre Michael Brown,
military weapons and equipment,
o equipamento militar e as armas modernas,
aos departamentos da polícia
across the United States.
dos Estados Unidos da América.
with surveillance equipment.
com o equipamento de vigilância.
surveillance is enabling
os departamentos locais de polícia
to gather vast quantities
about each and every one of us
sobre todos nós,
never previously possible.
be very sensitive.
podem ser muito susceptíveis.
the United States,
pelos Estados Unidos da América,
to a therapist,
dos alcoólicos anónimos,
or if you don't go to church.
information about you
about everyone else,
informações sobre todos os outros,
a detailed portrait
um retrato detalhado
particulares interagem.
about what happens behind closed doors.
o que se passa atrás de portas fechadas.
decisions about who they think you are
decisões sobre quem acham que nós somos,
driving mass location tracking
ao rastreio da localização em massa
leitor automático de matrículas de carros.
Automatic License Plate Reader.
know what to look for --
o que procurar
on police cars,
ou em carros da polícia,
capture images of every passing car
gravam imagens de cada carro que passa
into machine-readable text
em texto legível por máquinas
against hot lists
contra listas de alerta
procurados por transgressões.
for wrongdoing.
are keeping records
estão a manter registos
por transgressões
passes them by,
que passam por eles,
of mass quantities of data
de quantidades massivas de informações
was happening?
his local police department
ao seu departamento local de polícia
reader data they had on him,
os dados do leitor de matrículas
time and location,
photographs that captured
tinha fotografias que registavam
often who he was with.
com quem ele estava.
is a picture of Mike and his two daughters
é de Mike com as suas duas filhas,
in their own driveway.
hundreds of photos like this
de fotos como estas
in the United States,
nos EUA,
that they have photographs
about your daily life.
is keeping all of this information?
o governo guarde todas estas informações?
this data has plummeted,
estes dados caiu em flecha,
simply hang on to it,
guardam-nos simplesmente,
one police department
que um departamento da polícia
recolher estas informações
departments are doing it.
da polícia o estejam a fazer.
individual pots of data,
dados individuais
into one vast database
os norte-americanos se deslocaram.
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration,
Federal do Combate à Droga,
primarily interested in this,
interessadas nisto,
the existence of this database.
a existência desta base de dados.
o departamento da polícia de NI
equipped with license plate readers
leitores de matrículas
figure out who is attending.
para perceber quem as frequenta.
aren't limited to the United States.
não se limitam aos EUA.
on a plate reader watch list
de controlo de matrículas
lawful political demonstrations
de manifestações políticas legais,
and sketch the attendees.
e fazer desenhos dos participantes.
only mass location tracking technology
a única tecnologia de localização em massa
a cell tower dump,
despejo de antena de telemóveis,
uncover who was using
descobrir quem estava a utilizar
at a particular time,
num determinado momento,
and even hundreds of thousands of people.
ou centenas de milhares de pessoas.
conhecido como StingRay,
can send tracking signals
enviar sinais localizadores
to identify the cell phones located there.
identificar os telemóveis ali existentes.
which house to target,
to drive this technology
high-tech military weapons and equipment,
equipamentos militares de alta tecnologia,
the United States
por todos os EUA
altamente sofisticado.
we do about this?
fazer em relação a isto?
civil liberties threat.
uma séria ameaça à liberdade civil.
have massive quantities of data,
polícia tem quantidades maciças de dados,
de pessoas inocentes,
maybe for political advantage,
talvez para chantagem,
be governed by the city councils,
ser governados pelas câmaras municipais,
exigindo que a polícia
about innocent people
sobre pessoas inocentes
uses of the technology to go forward.
o uso legítimo da tecnologia.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Catherine Crump - Attorney + privacy advocateCatherine Crump is an assistant clinical professor at Berkeley Law School who focuses on the laws around data and surveillance.
Why you should listen
Catherine Crump is a civil liberties lawyer whose work focuses on combating government surveillance and protecting the free speech rights of political protesters. She has filed cases challenging the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security. Crump is an assistant professor at Berkeley Law School; previously she was an attorney for ACLU for nine years.
In her writing for the ACLU, Crump warns against the dangers of national mass surveillance technology, which can all too easily end up as tools for local police forces. She writes, "Not only our country as a whole, but also the police, will be better off in the long run if we have an open debate about what today’s technology can do, versus what it should do."
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