Watch Where You Walk: Law Enforcement Surveillance and Protester Privacy
![handle is hein.journals/callro11 and id is 349 raw text is: Watch Where You Walk: Law Enforcement Surveillance
and Protester Privacy
Katelyn Ringrose* and Divya Ramjee**
Protest is a fundamental feature of democracy, yet protesters
have been continuously met with domestic surveillance mechanisms
intended to chill public free expression and criminalize lawful
behavior. The deployment of privacy-invasive measures against
protesters in public spaces has an extensive and storied history-one
often rooted in racism and discrimination.' And while the technology
may have changed, the purpose remains the same: to surveil, identify,
and detain dissenters.2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38G44HR3X.
Copyright © 2020 Katelyn Ringrose and Divya Ramjee.
* Katelyn Ringrose, JD, is the Christopher Wolf Diversity Law fellow at the Future of
Privacy Forum. Her publications have focused on the Fourth Amendment, genetic privacy, body-
worn cameras, and more. The views herein do not necessarily reflect those of Future of Privacy
Forum supporters or board members.
** Divya Ramjee is a doctoral candidate at American University in the Department of
Justice, Law & Criminology. Her research interests include cybercrime and intellectual property
crime, biotechnology, and the application of machine learning methodology in the field of
criminology. This author is currently employed by the U.S. Department of Justice, and the views
expressed in this article are exclusively those of the author and do not necessarily represent the
views of the U.S. Department of Justice, its components, or the United States.
We thank the following individuals for their advice and recommendations: Imran Malek, JD; Anisha
Reddy, JD; Dr. Sara Jordan, PhD; Brenda Leong, JD; Dr. Eric Bechter, PhD; and Jessica Malaty
Rivera, MS. Finally, thank you to Alissa Gutierrez, JD candidate, for editorial assistance.
1 Katelyn Ringrose, Law Enforcement's Pairing of Facial Recognition Technology with
Body-Worn Cameras Escalates Privacy Concerns, UNIV. IL. L. REV. 1 (2019),
https://illinoislawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ringrose-1.pdf [https://penna.cc/DG78-
NV5E] (religious and racial minorities that have been affected by government monitoring include
law enforcement officials in the deep south forcing Black slaves to carry lanterns at night to prevent
their escape from White-owned plantations; as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
monitoring and attempted delegitimization of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and other members
of the Black clergy).
2 Jacob J. Hutt, Is the Government Planning to Surveil Keystone XL Protesters? ACLU
(Sep. 4, 2018), https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/government-planning-
surveil-keystone-xl-protesters [https://perma.cc/B3CX-PX8J].
349](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/callro11&div=20&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
What Is HeinOnline?
Contact us for annual subscription options:
Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?
profiles profiles most
Watch Where You Walk: Law Enforcement Surveillance and Protester Privacy
Contact us for annual subscription options:
Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?
profiles profiles most