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The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Voice Recognition and Surveillance
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2022
by Beryl Lipton, Cooper Quintin
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2022, page 27
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance.
Location:
United States of America.
by Beryl Lipton And Cooper Quintin
This article was first published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on September 10, 2021. It is reprinted here with permission.
Prison telecommunication companies have historically been in a voice-based business with one way to profit: charging exorbitant rates for phone …
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- The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Mobile Correctional Facility Robots, June 1, 2022
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