SURVEILLANCE: Who and What is Watching?

How to Identify Surveillance Equipment (website)

• by Deflock

Have I Been Flocked? (website)

"Flock Group, Inc. (dba "Flock Safety"), a for-profit Delaware corporation and tech company, provides a large-scale "surveillance as a service" system marketed to police agencies and private communities....These results are records of searches performed by Flock's customers. The license plates and search reasons are what someone manually entered into the system. The results don't show when or if your vehicle passed one of Flock's estimated 90,000+ devices, or what was shown as the result."

• What are ALPRs? (website) by DeFlock 
• Map of Flock cameras (website)
• Identifying License Plate Readers (website)

Surveillance Primers (website)

• by Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure (SASSI) 
• Website | Instagram | Bsky

Protecting Against Spyware (website)

• by Activist Checklist

Field Guide to Police Surveillance (website) 

• by Electronic Frontier Foundation

Surveillance Technology Oversight Project 

• Research Reports and Projects (website)
• Deportation Data Centers (website)

The High-Tech Tools Police Can Use to Surveil Protesters (website)

• by The Marshall Project

Read about the Mobile Fortify app (website) which is being used by immigration agents to scan faces and fingerprints

• by The Free Thought Project

How to Detect a Stingray Device: Detection Apps & IMSI Catcher Protection Explained in 2026 (website)

• by Cloudwards

Opt Out: "Opt Out of Biometric Theft, Facial Recognition Tech, and Data Scraping" (website)

• by Keep Beyond

Hitchhiker's Guide (to privacy and anonymity) (website)

• by Anonymous Planet

Minimise Surveillance Risk on Social Media (Instagram)

• by Cyberlixir

Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Surveillance Self-Defense (website)
• How the cops can get your data (website)
• Street Level Surveillance (website)

Facing On-Campus Surveillance in College (website) 

• by National Lawyers Guild

Searchable database of zines, texts and other media dealing with surveillance and operational security (website)

• by No Trace Project

Stop Hunting Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer Networks (website)

• by Sprout Distro

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying (website)

• by EFF

How to Defeat Facial Recognition: What Actually Works in 2025 by State of Surveillance

• Note - these steps and resources cannot guarantee your anonymity
• Stay informed by researching whether wearing masks at protests is legal in your city/county/state.

Where is your photo/image being gathered or collected? 

• Closed-circuit television (e.g., stores)
• Traffic cameras
• Airports cameras/face scanners
• Social media
• Media 
• DMV
• Getting an identification card
• Mugshots
• Job applications
• Applying for a passport or visa
• Enrolling in TSA's Pre-Check Program
• Police photos
• Drone footage

Where might your image/photo might be stored? Examples:

• Local enforcement databases
• FBI’s Next Generation Identification database  
• DMV database
• U.S. Department of State Passport and Visa photo database
• Homeland Security IDEN/HART database

Who is selling facial recognition software to law enforcement?

• Clearview AI (read more by SASSI)
• Who else is surveilling you?

Read more about facial recognition technology by EFF

• Axon (body cameras)
• B12 Technologies (iris-scanning)
• Cellebrite (data extraction) (read more by SASSI)
• Clearview AI (facial recognition) (read more by SASSI)
• DataWorks (biometrics/tattoo)
• Elsag (license plates)
• Face Forensics (biometric/tattoo)
• Finaldata
• Flock Safety (license plates) (read more by SASSI)
• Fusus (real time crime center) (read more by SASSI)
• General Atomics (drones)
• Idemia (biometric/tattoo)
• Jenoptic (license plates)
• L3Harris
• Motorola Solutions (license plates)
  • Vigilant Solutions (subsidiary)
• NEC/Mobile Fortify (biometric) (read more by Wired)
• Neurotechnology (biometric/tattoo)
• Palantir
  • Elite App (read more at The Guardian)
  • DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir (by Wired)
• Paragon Solutions
  • Graphite spyware
  • ICE Just Admitted It Uses Spyware That Reads Your Encrypted Messages (by State of Surveillance)
• PenLink (read more at newser or 404media)
  • Tangles (AI-driven OSINT platform, online data analysis)
  • Webloc (cell phone travel history tracker)
• Perceptics (license plates)
• Peregrine (data aggregator) (read more by SASSI)
• Rank One Computing (biometric/tattoo)
• Rekor (license plates)
• SoundThinking 
  • ShotSpotter (gunshot detection) (read more by SASSI)
• Skydio (drones)

Sources: 

• The powerful tools in ICE's arsenal to track suspects -- and protesters (Washington Post) 
• Surveillance Primers (website) by SASSI
• Field Guide to Police Surveillance (website) by Electronic Frontier Foundation