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  • The Digital Black Site: When Law Enforcement Outsourced the Constitution

    There was a time when constitutional violations required human effort. A bad cop. A corrupt prosecutor. A forged document. Today, the system doesn’t need villains—it needs vendors. Across the United States, law enforcement agencies have quietly built what can only be described as a digital black site—an ecosystem where artificial intelligence, private data contractors, and…

  • Request for Independent Security Review — NCIC Jail Communication App (Public-Interest Inquiry)

    security@eff.org,info@eff.org,tips@propublica.org,security@themarkup.org,tips@theintercept.com,disclosures@citizenlab.ca,contact@citizenlab.ca,security@aclu.org,tips@wired.com,security@mozilla.org,bugcrowd@bugcrowd.com,disclosures@hackerone.com,security@torproject.org,press@torproject.org,security@wikimedia.org,info@openprivacy.ca,contact@privacyinternational.org,security@openrights.org,tips@bellingcat.com Good afternoon, I am reaching out to request an independent, good-faith security and privacy review of the NCIC jail communications platform (mobile application and associated backend services) from a public-interest and civil-liberties perspective. The concern is straightforward and narrow: Whether the NCIC application engages in surveillance, data harvesting, tracking, or secondary data use that…