<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">Kenya has invested heavily in Technology for the police. Are we aware of how its used? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small"><p><strong>When Sergeant Lee DeBrabander</strong>
marked a case confidential in the Long Beach drug squad’s Palantir data
analysis system in November 2014, he expected key details to remain
hidden from unauthorized users’ eyes. In police work, this can be
crucial—a matter of life and death, even. It often involves protecting
vulnerable witnesses, keeping upcoming operations hush hush, or
protecting a fellow police officer who’s working undercover.</p><p>Yet
not long after, someone working in the gang crimes division ran a car
license plate mentioned in his case and was able to read the entire
file. “Can you please look at this?” DeBrabander wrote to a Palantir
engineer in an email, which was obtained by Backchannel in response to
public records requests.</p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small"><br clear="all"></div><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-secretive-data-company-pushed-into-policing">https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-secretive-data-company-pushed-into-policing</a><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Anyega M Jefferson<br><br></div><div><a href="mailto:jeffersonanyega@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffersonanyega@gmail.com</a><br><br>0703824326<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Start where you are,use what you have and do what you can.<br><br></div></div></div></div>
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