Police Tracking

Controversial situations have always stuck with cops around and across the country. Some instances dealing with police brutality, irrational arrest, and much more law enforcement issues. However, in the TED talk by Catherine Crump, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Director, Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic Co-Director for Berkeley Law, she sheds the light on a "small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you." Similar to how military-style equipment, such as weapons, are being passed down to small police forces, new surveillance technology is as well. Though, personally, I understand that some of our information is being retained and passed around, I would have never thought about being tracked and watched by the police as if I were a former secret agent. The way that they are doing is by NSA-style mass surveillance which enables local police departments to gather vast quantities of sensitive information about each and every one of us. Hearing about this information truly shocked me a little seeing that local police departments now have in there hands technology that is world changing. It allows them to track location information of every place we have been from either going to school, driving to work, if we went to church or not, and a lot of other supposedly "secret" information. For some reason, I feel that privacy is not a thing anymore unless its relating to something the government is hiding. Honestly, I hope this issue concerning privacy for the public could be resolved, but it looks like we are far from finding any permanent or, at least, long-lasting solutions.