A look at Intrepid Response, an app the Minnesota police used to collect photos and data on journalists at protests and share across law enforcement agencies
In April of last year, a freelance photojournalist named J.D. Duggan was covering a protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota … Tweets: @mat , @techreview , @cendemtech , and @hypervisible See also Mediagazer Tweets: Mat Honan / @mat : Here's the latest in our Secret Police series from @TateRyMo & @MinneapoliSam that looks at the “Slack for SWAT” app that police in Minnesota used to track journalists and protestors: https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... @techreview : Intrepid Response is a little-known but powerful app that lets police quickly upload and share information across agencies. But what happens to the information it collects? https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... @cendemtech : “Intrepid Response [] provides an easy means to capture & share info that identifies whoever is on the other side of an officer's smartphone... shared in real time via the app [to] one of three known data repositories [] about individuals at protests:” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... @hypervisible : “Intrepid Response lets officers collect data that can be analyzed in myriad ways, and our investigation has found that officers were compiling watch lists of people attending protests.” https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer