How One Guy #Crowdsourced More Than 500 #Dashcams for #Minneapolis to Film #ICE

When self-employed software engineer Nick Benson put out the call for dashcams online, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch in suburban Minneapolis.
#privacy #surveillance #monitor

https://www.404media.co/how-one-guy-crowdsourced-more-than-500-dashcams-for-minneapolis-to-film-ice/

How One Guy #Crowdsourced More Than 500 #Dashcams for #Minneapolis to Film #ICE

When self-employed software engineer Nick Benson put out the call for dashcams online, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch in suburban Minneapolis.
#privacy #surveillance #monitor

https://www.404media.co/how-one-guy-crowdsourced-more-than-500-dashcams-for-minneapolis-to-film-ice/

Update. #CoherentDigital launches Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tobyabgreen_policy-commons-2025-open-collection-activity-7303702049764888577-k2TD

"It's our contribution to the ongoing effort to rescue, preserve and make open endangered government materials at risk of disappearing…Our focus will be on policy and technical reports, papers, documents, blogposts, videos, and podcasts but we're open to suggestions for other content types - except for datasets. There are a number of excellent ongoing efforts to rescue data so there's no need for us to replicate them…Our goal is to make these materials easy to find and permanently available…We’re calling on librarians and researchers to help identify endangered materials from government agencies and suggest at-risk websites and repositories. We're also inviting those who have been working closely with agencies to send us copies of previously open materials they may have on their hard drives and laptops."

Also see the project home page and FAQ.
https://coherentdigital.net/open-2025

#Censorship#Crowdsourced#DefendResearch#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics

Update. If you're following this thread, you should also follow the Data Rescue Project by visiting its web site and subscribing to its email list. It aims "to serve as a clearinghouse for #data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk." And it's #crowdsourced, which gives it fighting chance to be comprehensive and up to date.
https://www.datarescueproject.org/about-data-rescue-project/

If you're on #Bluesky, also follow its B account.
https://bsky.app/profile/datarescueproject.org

I'm very aware that a solo effort, like this Mastodon thread, doesn't scale to the size of this task and I welcome the arrival of a crowdsourced effort. I will use it and refer people to it.

#Censorship#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics