Matt CagleInformation about the locations of powerful actors can reveal how they operate and act against the public. Case in point: the ACLU of Northern California uncovered how the CA Highway Patrol conducted aerial surveillance of racial justice protesters in cities across the state. https://www.aclunc.org/blog/recordings-show-california-highway-patrol-s-aerial-surveillance-racial-justice-protests
A few years prior, EFF used location information to educate the public about how the Oakland Police Dept used automated license plate readers to track the sensitive daily movements of community members. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/what-we-learned-oakland-raw-alpr-data
What You Can Learn from Oakland's Raw ALPR Data
Police cars mounted with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) wind their way through the streets of Oakland like a “Snake” game on an old cell phone. Instead of eating up pixels of food, these cameras gobble down thousands of license plates each day. And instead of growing a longer tail, ALPRs...