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Karan Tripathi

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PhD at University of Cambridge, MSc at University of Oxford. Researching impact of emerging technologies on criminalisation and punishment.

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Nov 21

My paper in Punishment & Society discusses sentence review decision-making for life prisoners in India. Based on findings from quant-qual sequential design, I argue that SRB significantly violates lifers’ right to meaningful consideration for early release.

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‘Entrapped in a penal time capsule’: Extralegal discourses in sentence review of life prisoners in India - Karan Tripathi, Netanel Dagan, 2024

Scholars argue that lifers’ parole can be mobilised to be punitive and politicised. However, how parole decision-makers construct and disguise their punitive an...

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · 12d

UK is getting its Aadhar

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Law + Tech News Bot @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org · 12d

TL;DR: Verizon is being held accountable for unlawfully tracking and selling customer location data without proper disclosure or consent, raising serious privacy concerns.

Verizon Remains On The Legal Hook For Illegally Spying On You And Selling Your Movement Data (For Now)

For decades, major U.S. wireless providers have collected sensitive customer movement and location data (often down to the meter), then sold it to a long list of random dipshits — usually without b…

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · 12d

This was really helpful. Thanks for sharing

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · 16d

The silence of certain immigration scholars on Far Right marches, rise of Reform and its policies, and everyday embodied harms of migrantphobia is alarming and concerning. Pick a side, speak up, before it’s too late. Don’t compel us to expose your duplicity and hypocrisy.

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · 21d

Great!

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · 21d

Rich of you to think that a “Legal policy” would prevent police from doing what they intend to. One of the many liberal mythologies

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · 27d

Taking the power of procurement away from the police

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’ve been recommending this to folks in India left, right, and centre

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Jul 16

My fieldwork has now brought me to Hyderabad, where I am conducting research with India’s most technologically advanced police force. I look forward to developing a deeper, more contextually grounded understanding of the social life of algorithmic evidence in criminal investigations and prosecutions

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Jul 10

As part of my PhD fieldwork, I have joined Bureau of Police Research & Development - India’s state-owned policing think tank. I’ll be working as a research assistant for Tech & Modernisation Division - looking at use of AI in criminal investigation and evidence construction

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Jun 27

I love sharing reports from left-leaning media outlets in my right-wing heavy family WhatsApp groups just to redistribute the pains of cognitive overloading.

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Jun 12

Judicial PR is scary!

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · May 28

The politics of ground truth

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · May 20

How will they achieve “decryption”? Platforms are not going to acquiesce, so only option is use of force/violence to confiscate devices + roving searches

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · May 20

Proposed changes to tax laws are simply providing a remote legal backing to an already prevalent police practice - confiscating devices and roving inspection of personal chats

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · May 10

This week Inquest covered false promises: that the “new” drug war would be less punitive and more focused on public health (it is not), and that big tech policing product ShotSpotter makes communities safer (it does not). Read the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...

Quote card on a black background with a subtle tiled repeating image of a blue neon sign of a machine gun. Quote from Ed Vogel, author of "Turning Death into a Commodity," reads: "ShotSpotter is a way to monetize death by gun violence. It is constructed to extract profit from the murder of people in Black, brown, and poor communities rendered surplus by organized abandonment—a form of profit extraction that the prison–industrial complex had previously been unable to fully activate." Directly above the quote is Inquest magazine's colophon, a transparent serifed capital I in a white circle.

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · May 9

It’s all in the ground truth (or the lack thereof)

S.J.💙🩵💙🦋 @glimmers2.bsky.social · May 3

The MTA is working with AI companies to deploy tech that would analyze security footage as it's being filmed. They want to use a technology notoriously unreliable and biased to monitor subways and send in police in real time #hightechracialprofiling

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · May 9

Defence AI is built by, and for, war capitalists.

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Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · May 5

U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It’s Coming Home.
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U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It’s Coming Home.

After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Apr 28

Great evincing of the punitive turn. Can’t wait to read the paper, especially the methods section

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Apr 24

Authoritarian regimes have not just Co-opted “decolonisation” and “sovereignty”, but also “privacy” and “data protection”. State is claiming privacy against its own citizens.

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Apr 21

Delhi Police arresting people based on facial recognition match score of 32%! At this point, such machine-driven ‘intelligence’ is simply a legitimation/rationalisation exercise.

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thinking of Karen Barad’s relational ontology. ‘Identification’ here is no longer a search for pre-existing reality but a discursive tool to actively shape and produce reality. The reality here being “criminality”.

Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Mar 31

An important thread on the new Sentencing Council guidelines on pre-sentencing reports

Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · Mar 31

There’s been a lot of discussion recently on the new Sentencing Council guidelines – specifically about the proposal on ethnic and religious minorities. But what’s actually being proposed, is it sensible, and who are the Sentencing Council anyway? 🧵

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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · Mar 22

Facial recognition is not about identification, it’s about labelling. The state doesn’t want to ‘see’ you, it already sees you and wants to ‘unsee you’ by legitimising its ways of (un)seeing as the only appropriate way of seeing.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 18

Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders

Amnesty International describes legislation as ‘full-frontal attack’ on country’s LGBTQ+ community MPs in Hungary have voted to ban Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them, in…