• 
• 9 min
• Kinolab
• 2002

In the year 2054, the PreCrime police program is about to go national. At PreCrime, three clairvoyant humans known as “PreCogs” are able to forecast future murders by streaming audiovisual data which provides the surrounding details of the crime, including the names of the victims and perpetrators. Although there are no cameras, the implication is that anyone can be under constant surveillance by this program. Once the “algorithm” has gleaned enough data about the future crime, officers move out to stop the murder before it happens. In this narrative, the PreCrime program is audited, and the officers must explain the ethics and philosophies at play behind their systems. After captain John Anderton is accused of a future crime, he flees, and learns of “minority reports,” or instances of disagreement between the Precogs covered up by the department to make the justice system seem infallible.

• Civil Surveillance
• Predictive Policing
• Machine Learning
• Data Streaming

• 
• 5 min
• The Guardian
• 2019

Biometrics technology will be implemented as a means of gaining access to a residential building in Brooklyn, causing pushback among the tenants who prefer to keep their data private, especially considering the lack of legal regulation surrounding the technology. Specifically, there is growing fear that the facial recognition database could be sold to or abused by law enforcement.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Biometrics

• 
• 5 min
• The Guardian
• 2021

Amazon’s Ring devices are creating a private network of video surveillance that can be accessed by governments and other public entities without a warrant.

• Civil Surveillance
• Technology and Race
• Computer Vision
• Networks

• 
• 7 min
• Vice
• 2021

In New Orleans, a city known for its history of racist policing, grassroots activists turned to precedent from other states to ban police use of surveillance and facial recognition technology through both public and private cameras.

• Civil Surveillance
• Digital Activism
• Computer Vision
• Data Streaming

• 
• 15 min
• Kinolab
• 2017

Detective Shazia Akhand is assigned to investigate the case of a man who was hit by a pizza truck in the street to help him build a case. She uses a brain-computer interface to read the memories of both the man hit by the truck and other witnesses, where the vague, abstract images are projected onto a screen. One of these witnesses includes Mia, a serial killer whose former crimes are revealed during her interview. In order to erase any footage or evidence of her murders, Mia continues her killing spree by wiping out Shazia and her family. However, Mia is eventually caught through the memories of an unlikely source.

• Civil Surveillance
• Limitations of Digital Technologies
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Data Streaming

• 
• 6 min
• Kinolab
• 2011

After a mysterious global outbreak of an unknown virus, several health organizations, including the CDC, get to work figuring out the origins of the virus and how to defeat it. They begin by digitally analysing the genome of one strain of the virus to understand how it infects the human body and how to vaccinate against it. They then use surveillance cameras to track the movements of Beth, one of the first known cases of the virus. At the end of the film, an omniscient point of view reveals how Beth originally got the virus.

• Civil Surveillance
• Pandemics
• Computational Genomics
• Data Streaming