upturn

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A 2020 study by the nonprofit Upturn found that at least 2,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states possess the technology to get into and extract data from locked phones.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023

At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide have access to the tools, public records requested by the Washington nonprofit Upturn found.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2020

ProPublica helped design the research with Northeastern and Upturn and placed some additional ads of its own.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2019

The ads also stop short of fully explaining the rights of a citizen in a traffic stop, according to Harlan Yu, the executive director of Upturn, a nonprofit that studies how technology affects social issues.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2017

Upturn, up-turn′, v.t. to turn up or upward: to throw up.—v.i. to turn up.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various