Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
Catherine Crump: Le petit détail, étonnamment dangereux, que la police collecte sur vous
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,
des manifestants à Ferguson, Missouri,
shooting of Michael Brown,
ait été abattu par la police,
military weapons and equipment,
et l'équipement militaires de pointe,
across the United States.
petites villes aux États-Unis.
with surveillance equipment.
avec l'équipement de surveillance.
surveillance is enabling
digne de l'Agence de sécurité américaine
to gather vast quantities
de recueillir une multitude
about each and every one of us
sur chacun d'entre nous,
never previously possible.
été possible par le passé.
be very sensitive.
peut en révéler beaucoup.
the United States,
to a therapist,
voir un thérapeute,
des Alcooliques Anonymes,
or if you don't go to church.
ou ne pas y aller.
information about you
about everyone else,
les autres résidents,
a detailed portrait
brosser un portrait détaillé
de ses habitants.
étaient confidentielles.
about what happens behind closed doors.
sur notre vie privée.
decisions about who they think you are
choses sur nous
driving mass location tracking
principalement grâce à
Automatic License Plate Reader.
des plaques d'immatriculation.
ce que c'est,
know what to look for --
pas quoi chercher.
on police cars,
et dans les voitures de police,
capture images of every passing car
de toutes les voitures qui passent
into machine-readable text
compréhensible par une machine.
against hot lists
qui figurerait sur une liste noire
for wrongdoing.
recherchés pour méfaits.
de plus en plus souvent,
are keeping records
toujours recherchés pour méfaits,
passes them by,
qui passent.
of mass quantities of data
une énorme quantité de données
was happening?
his local police department
son unité de police locale d'obtenir
reader data they had on him,
concernant sa plaque d'immatriculation.
time and location,
du lieu de ses déplacements,
photographs that captured
often who he was with.
is a picture of Mike and his two daughters
c'est Mike et ses deux filles,
in their own driveway.
dans leur propre entrée.
hundreds of photos like this
de photos comme ça
in the United States,
that they have photographs
qu'ils ont des photos
about your daily life.
is keeping all of this information?
à garder toutes ces informations?
this data has plummeted,
plus abordable que jamais.
simply hang on to it,
tout simplement les garder,
être utiles un jour.
one police department
qu'un seul corp policier
departments are doing it.
de corps de police.
individual pots of data,
into one vast database
une grande base de données
millions d'info
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration,
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration,
primarily interested in this,
s'intéressant à ces données,
the existence of this database.
que ces bases de données existent.
equipped with license plate readers
des lecteurs automatiques
figure out who is attending.
les gens qui s'y rendent.
aren't limited to the United States.
qu'on les utilise et qu'on en abuse.
on a plate reader watch list
sur une liste de surveillance,
lawful political demonstrations
de manifestations politiques légales
and sketch the attendees.
faire un croquis des participants.
only mass location tracking technology
la seule technologie de localisation
les agents de la paix.
a cell tower dump,
de station cellulaire,
uncover who was using
at a particular time,
à un moment donné.
qui a révélé
and even hundreds of thousands of people.
voir de centaines, de milliers de gens.
le StingRay,
can send tracking signals
des signaux de localisation
to identify the cell phones located there.
pour voir les cellulaires s'y trouvant.
which house to target,
quelle maison cibler,
to drive this technology
high-tech military weapons and equipment,
et de l'équipements militaires avancés,
the United States
partout aux États-Unis
de surveillance avancé.
we do about this?
civil liberties threat.
sérieuse de nos libertés civiles.
have massive quantities of data,
a une énorme quantité de données,
d'innocents,
maybe for political advantage,
pour tirer un avantage politique,
certaines mesures.
be governed by the city councils,
dirigés par le conseil municipal
obligeant la police
about innocent people
sur les personnes innocentes,
uses of the technology to go forward.
de cette technologie.
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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