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If I Go to a Protest, What Kinds of Personal Information Might Police Collect About Me? (important guest post)

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They have easy access to social media messages, as well as social media photo and video footage and its associated metadata, and data downloaded from confiscated phones. But police and sheriffs’ departments who want to surveil protests in their area do have a mind-boggling array of resources at their disposal in the year 2020.