Denver is on a path toward the destruction of individual privacy under the guise of “safety.” Tech companies are seizing on right-wing fear-mongering about immigrants and “crime” to build a surveillance network that touches every part of our lives.

These same tools could be used to deploy militarized ICE on immigrant communities while data centers in our neighborhoods extract, categorize and process it all. The companies that sell “decision support” for war also sell “case management” and tracking to our city. If this still sounds abstract, here’s a story about chickens coming home to roost.

In May, after public backlash, Denver City Council rejected a $666,000 two-year expansion of Denver’s contract with Flock Safety, a $7 billion company that sells license-plate reader cameras that log

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