This week, we are discussing Bill Barr’s newest anti-protester surveillance tactics. Then, we learn how law enforcement is using Google to track us in ways we once only feared. But don’t worry, it’s not all gloom and doom, we end with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson in this week’s Stranger Than Science Fiction.

If you want to do further reading on what we talked about on this episode, read Ali Winston's most recent article: https://theappeal.org/nypd-srg-misconduct/

S.T.O.P. Privacy Toolkits:

Bar Exam Privacy Toolkit: https://www.stopspying.org/bar-exam-privacy

Know Your Rights Training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL2gyTawF6C1_u01n71dYSe9P2Umh1qNd5&v=EBNH7S-1pMs&feature=emb_title

Protest Surveillance Toolkit: https://www.stopspying.org/protest

This week, Albert, Ali, and Liz explore the latest ways that robots are coming for us all, looking at just how unintelligent A.I. can be, in Housing, the Trump Administration, and Emotion Detection software. Then, we talk about the intrusive deployment of biometric surveillance tech in housing with special guest and community advocate, Fabian Rogers. Next, we delve into the racist pseudoscience of emotional detection software. And lastly, we take a look back at a single episode of the 90's quantum-leap ripoff, "Sliders" in this week’s stranger than science fiction.

This episode is about how law enforcement can use DNA to surveil us.

Our special guest is Terri Rosenblatt the Supervising Attorney of the DNA Unit at Legal Aid in NYC.

This week SATC is all about Palantir, the company owned by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, Geo Fence Warrants, the scary thing that law enforcement can use to track your location without you knowing, and Lord of the Rings!!! How do they all relate? Alfred NG of CNET joins us to connect the dots.

This week we talk Tik Tok. In recent weeks there has been a lot of fear around this app owned by Chinese company Bytedance, as President Donald Trump declared that he was considering a nation-wide ban on the popular platform.

Our guest for this episode is Shoshana Wodinsky, tech reporter for Gizmodo who writes extensively on social media platforms and privacy.

For our segment 'Stranger Than Science Fiction,' we look at the Black Mirror episode, 'Nosedive.' The premise is that at some point in the future we will live in a world where your credibility hinges on the prominence of your social media. Liz O'Sullivan walks us through how we are already starting to live that reality.

This week on Surveillance And The City, we talk about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial COVID-19 checkpoints, the NYPD’s arrest of activist Nikki Stone, and the scary world of geofence warrants which give cops a blank check to track nearly anyone at any time.

To round things out we look back at the Graphic Novel turned generation defining movie, V for Vendetta, and talk about how eerily similar our dystopia is.

This week Albert Fox Cahn, Liz O'Sullivan, and Ali Winston discuss the dangers of contact tracing, the erosion of medical privacy, law enforcement hacking techniques, and for 'Stranger Than Science Fiction' the gang discusses the great 90's movie 'Sneakers.'