Pirate News: BPD Drones Over Boston? (September 29, 2025)
Steve, Joe and James discuss HorizonMass/BINJ effort to use public records requests to determine if the drones over the Boston Dominican Parade and…
Category: Surveillance
Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) Next Weekend (September 28, 2025)
We are proud to sponsor The Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) on October 3–5. The conference is organized and hosted by The Black…
Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) 2025 (September 20, 2025)
We are proud to sponsor The Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) on October 3–5. The conference is organized and hosted by The Black…
Thursday: Oppose Cambridge Police Surveillance! (September 15, 2025)
This Thursday, the Cambridge Pole & Conduit Commission will consider Flock’s requests to put up 15 to 20 surveillance cameras with Automatic License Plate…
Boston City Council stops BPD surveillance effort (September 1, 2025)
Thanks to everyone who came out to oppose the Boston Police Department’s (BPD) request for City Council approval for BPD to use three…
Tuesday: Oppose Police Social Media Surveillance (August 18, 2025)
Boston Police (BPD) continue their efforts rollout more surveillance tools. This time on social media. Tuesday, August 19th, the Boston Public Safety Committee…
Chicopee Police Cams Mapped (August 15, 2025)
Jonathan Gerhardson, a journalist in Western Massachusetts, mapped police-owned cameras in Chicopee using public records requests and some digital sleuthing. He posted an…
8/19: Oppose Police Social Media Surveillance (August 12, 2025)
Boston Police (BPD) continue their efforts rollout more surveillance tools. This time on social media. On August 19th, the Boston Public Safety Committee…
One event down. Join us on June 21st! (June 19, 2025)
Thanks to everyone who helped map surveillance cameras in Harvard Square. We identified nearly 50 surveillance cameras between JFK Street, Mount Auburn Street,…
Map surveillance cameras today (June 17, 2025)
We will be in Harvard Square at 6pm today, June 17th, to map surveillance cameras. Meet us at Cambridge Kiosk (former Out of…