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Community speakers urge city to cut ZenCity contract, cite surveillance concerns
Summary
Several public commenters at the March 3 CCPO meeting criticized the city's $500,000 contract with ZenCity, an analytics firm, raising privacy, provenance of data, vendor ties to Israeli intelligence services, and MPD control of data as central concerns.
During the public-comment portion of the March 3 Community Commission on Police Oversight meeting, multiple speakers urged the city to end a $500,000 contract with ZenCity, an analytics and digital-engagement firm.
Speakers said ZenCity’s founder and some staff have ties to Israeli military intelligence and argued that the company’s tools have been used to monitor racial-justice protesters and community critics of police. Bob Gonin (phonetic) told the commission the firm has been used nationally to monitor protests and criticized the company’s role in polling and sentiment analysis around…
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