Source: 404 Media
The Department of Homeland Security is running an opaque surveillance program that analyzes Americans' financial records to flag targets for local law enforcement to stop, effectively outsourcing discriminatory algorithmic decision-making to street-level police. Federal agencies are using data analysis to drive traffic stops that obscure both the algorithmic logic and the federal infrastructure behind them. Financial surveillance feeding into policing bypasses traditional warrant requirements and parliamentary oversight while creating plausible deniability at the local level.