Do you live in a sanctuary city?
“Sanctuary city” can mean so many different things that the designation may not tell us much.
All law enforcement (state and federal) access and use criminal legal databases. These include arrest, conviction, and sentencing history records, court records, biometric data, and communications systems connected to DHS. Even the most robust "sanctuary city" sends information like fingerprints gathered after an arrest to federal law enforcement databases. ICE can use this information to target someone for arrest.
Our intimate personal data is being collected and secretly resold by commercial vendors. This includes details like credit scores, purchases, change-of-address requests, real-time location, travel itineraries, medical records, and social connections. Government agencies like ICE are able to stalk and find us using this data — all without a judicial warrant — even in sanctuary cities.
Biometric recording and identification is becoming normalized and ubiquitous. Datasets that include our eye movements, heart rate and emotional states, can help create incredibly detailed digital profiles that can be extrapolated for prediction or behavioral control. It’s not just our phones and wearables that are harvesting us for data — even our TVs may be watching us.
The unfortunate reality is that none of us live in a sanctuary city until we change how our data is collected and weaponized.
To see what databases would track you if your answer had been no, click the no button.
“Sanctuary city” can mean so many different things that the designation may not tell us much.
All law enforcement (state and federal) access and use criminal legal databases. These include arrest, conviction, and sentencing history records, court records, biometric data, and communications systems connected to DHS. Even the most robust "sanctuary city" sends information like fingerprints gathered after an arrest to federal law enforcement databases. ICE can use this information to target someone for arrest.
Our intimate personal data is being collected and secretly resold by commercial vendors. This includes details like credit scores, purchases, change-of-address requests, real-time location, travel itineraries, medical records, and social connections. Government agencies like ICE are able to stalk and find us using this data — all without a judicial warrant — even in sanctuary cities.
Biometric recording and identification is becoming normalized and ubiquitous. Datasets that include our eye movements, heart rate and emotional states, can help create incredibly detailed digital profiles that can be extrapolated for prediction or behavioral control. It’s not just our phones and wearables that are harvesting us for data — even our TVs may be watching us.
The unfortunate reality is that none of us live in a sanctuary city until we change how our data is collected and weaponized.
To see what databases would track you if your answer had been yes, click the yes button.
