Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
Catherine Crump: El pequeño y peligroso detalle que la policía investiga sobre ti
Catherine Crump is an assistant clinical professor at Berkeley Law School who focuses on the laws around data and surveillance. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
on protestors in Ferguson, Missouri,
los manifestantes en Ferguson, Missouri,
shooting of Michael Brown,
le disparara a Michael Brown,
military weapons and equipment,
las avanzadas armas y equipos militares
de pequeñas ciudades de EE.UU.
across the United States.
with surveillance equipment.
con los equipos de vigilancia.
surveillance is enabling
recoger grandes cantidades
to gather vast quantities
about each and every one of us
sobre todos y cada uno de nosotros
never previously possible.
be very sensitive.
puede ser muy detallada.
the United States,
to a therapist,
de Alcohólicos Anónimos,
or if you don't go to church.
information about you
about everyone else,
con la de todos los demás,
a detailed portrait
a tener un retrato detallado
sus ciudadanos en privado.
about what happens behind closed doors.
sobre lo que ocurre a puertas cerradas.
decisions about who they think you are
driving mass location tracking
para el rastreo masivo de la ubicación
lector automático de matrículas.
Automatic License Plate Reader.
know what to look for --
dónde mirar;
on police cars,
o en los autos de policía,
capture images of every passing car
de todos los autos que pasan
into machine-readable text
en textos leídos por máquinas
against hot lists
de las listas negras
for wrongdoing.
presuntamente por cometer infracciones.
mantienen registros
are keeping records
que han cometido infracciones,
passes them by,
of mass quantities of data
de grandes cantidades de datos
was happening?
his local police department
a su departamento de policía local
reader data they had on him,
había recolectado sobre él
time and location,
photographs that captured
tenía fotos que probaban
often who he was with.
con quién andaba.
is a picture of Mike and his two daughters
se ve a Mike y a sus dos hijas
in their own driveway.
estacionado frente a su casa.
hundreds of photos like this
cientos de fotos como esta
in the United States,
that they have photographs
about your daily life.
actividades diarias.
is keeping all of this information?
tenga toda esta información?
this data has plummeted,
esta información han caído en picada,
simply hang on to it,
simplemente la tienen guardada
one police department
si un departamento de policía
por su cuenta
departments are doing it.
de policía lo hacen.
individual pots of data,
de datos personales,
into one vast database
en una gran base de datos
los estadounidenses.
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration,
Agencia Federal Antidrogas,
primarily interested in this,
más interesadas en esto,
the existence of this database.
la existencia de esta base de datos.
en la ciudad de Nueva York,
equipped with license plate readers
con lectores de matrícula
figure out who is attending.
información sobre los asistentes.
aren't limited to the United States.
no se limita a EE.UU.
el departamento de policía
on a plate reader watch list
en una lista de sospechosos
lawful political demonstrations
de demostraciones políticas legales,
and sketch the attendees.
y dibujar a los participantes.
la única tecnología de rastreo masivo
only mass location tracking technology
del orden público hoy en día.
como "descarga de datos de antena"
a cell tower dump,
uncover who was using
pueden averiguar quién ha usado
at a particular time,
en un momento dado,
and even hundreds of thousands of people.
e incluso cientos de miles de personas.
conocido como StingRay,
can send tracking signals
pueden enviar señales de rastreo
to identify the cell phones located there.
los teléfonos celulares que hay allí.
which house to target,
to drive this technology
high-tech military weapons and equipment,
de alta tecnología,
the United States
de policía en todo EE.UU.
altamente sofisticados.
we do about this?
hacer al respecto?
civil liberties threat.
para las libertades civiles.
have massive quantities of data,
de cantidades masivas de datos,
del movimiento de la gente inocente
maybe for political advantage,
por ventaja política,
que podemos tomar.
be governed by the city councils,
responden ante los consejos municipales,
obligando a la policía
de las personas inocentes,
about innocent people
de tecnologías sea solo el legítimo.
uses of the technology to go forward.
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."
Catherine Crump | Speaker | TED.com