Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters' phones against them
The searches, sometimes known as reverse location requests, increased fivefold from 2018 to 2019.
Alfred Ng
June 16, 2020 9:52 a.m. PT
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/geofence-warrants-how-police-can-use-protesters-phones-against-them/
The DEA Has Been Given Permission To Investigate People Protesting George Floyd’s Death
The Justice Department gave the agency the temporary power “to enforce any federal crime committed as a result of the protests over the death of George Floyd.”
There is a long history of federal agencies infiltrating and surveilling protest groups. During the protests in Baltimore in 2015 over the death of Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, the Department of Homeland Security monitored Twitter and other social media platforms for "intelligence" on the protesters. In Ferguson, Missouri, during the 2014 protests over Michael’s Brown’s killing by a white police officer, DHS planned to "plug" federal officers into protests to conduct surveillance and collect intelligence. And the FBI conducted extensive monitoring and surveillance of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement that began in 2011.
It’s unknown if the ATF, FBI, or other federal law enforcement agencies have been granted the same authority as the DEA.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6935297-LEOPOLD-DEA-Memo-George-Floyd-Protests.html
FBI blooper allowed agents to use Palantir to see restricted material -letter
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-blooper-allowed-agents-use-palantir-see-restricted-material-letter-2021-08-26/
Michael German, a former FBI agent and a fellow at the New York-based Brennan Center for Justice, said "unauthorized access or use, even if just by FBI employees or other law enforcement officials, creates a substantial risk to the integrity of the evidence and the privacy of innocent people."
In an email, Palantir spokeswoman Lisa Gordon said its platform was not to blame for the mishap and had strong access and security controls. She added that the FBI "has rigorous protocols established to protect search warrant returns, which, in this case, the end user did not follow."
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment late on Wednesday. The FBI did not return messages.
http://archive.today/t3xfP
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Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement
Motherboard got its hands onPalantir's Gothamuser's manual, which is used by the police to get information on people:
The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives. The capabilities are staggering, according to the guide:
Read the whole article – it has a lot of details. This seems like a commercial version of the NSA's XKEYSCORE.
https://archive.ph/HWlaa
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/palantirs_surve.html
ACLED database
https://acleddata.com/#/dashboard
Funding
ACLED is a registered non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status in the United States. ACLED receives financial support from the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the United States Department of State, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Tableau Foundation, the International Organization for Migration, and The University of Texas at Austin.
ACLED’s coverage of the United States began as part of the US Crisis Monitor, a special project made possible through support from the Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton University.
ACLED also partners with Mapbox for support on the latest location data and mapping tools.
The project has previously received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 283755 from 2013 to 2017.
DISAGGREGATED DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSIS & CRISIS MAPPING PLATFORM
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
Bringing clarity to crisis
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.
ACLED is a registered non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status in the United States. Learn more about the organization’s history here.
ACLED is what Greg Phillips mentioned during 2000 Mules.
This is the overlay where he stated they identified 3000 protesters who also participated in the ballot fraud.
This is public information.
This is the source he mentioned.