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Resisting Digital Policing Toolkit

by Weaving Liberation

Published | 2025

Countering digital risks

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Summary

The "Resisting Digital Policing" report examines how emerging digital surveillance technologies are expanding state control, disproportionately targeting marginalised communities, and undermining civil liberties. It highlights the urgent need to resist and regulate these invasive practices to protect human rights and democratic freedoms.

Why read

It is helpful read this report to understand the growing threats posed by digital policing, equipping them with insights to challenge surveillance-driven repression and advocate for policy reforms.

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This report analyses the rise of digital policing, including facial recognition, predictive algorithms, and data-driven surveillance, exposing how these technologies enable over-policing and discrimination against vulnerable communities. It explores how law enforcement agencies and private companies collaborate in deploying intrusive monitoring systems with minimal oversight. By highlighting real-world cases, it underscores the dangers of unchecked surveillance and its chilling effect on activism and free expression. The report calls for stronger legal safeguards, greater transparency, and resistance strategies to curb the misuse of digital policing tools. It is an essential resource for civil society groups, legal advocates, and policymakers committed to protecting human rights in the digital age.

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