Original sentence: According to many it is closely associated with, and implicated by,  pro-technology propaganda from vendors of technologies for use in prisons, monitoring, surveillance, and tracking the identity and movement of persons - and ominously anticipating their intent
Edited sentence: Closely associated with this, and implicated in it, is pro-technology propaganda from vendors of technologies for use in prisons, monitoring, surveillance, and tracking the identity and movement of persons - and ominously anticipating their intent