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Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry - 4 mai 2021
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones.
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could (...)
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The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue - 14 avril 2021
Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested because of a faulty facial recognition match, is asking for the technology to be banned.
On January 9, 2020, Detroit police drove to the suburb of Farmington Hill and arrested Robert Williams in his driveway while his wife and young daughters looked on. Williams, a (...)
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Clearview AI Offered Thousands Of Cops Free Trials - 9 avril 2021
A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.
A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly (...)
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Officials in Baltimore and St. Louis Put the Brakes on Persistent Surveillance Systems Spy Planes - 11 mars 2021
Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In recent years, the predominantly Black population in each city has engaged in collective action opposing police violence. In recent weeks, officials in both cities voted unanimously to spare (...)
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Spot is a Cop - 4 mars 2021
A new report shows that Boston Dynamics loaned its Spot robot to the Massachusetts State Police, and civil liberties groups are concerned.
Cops are already using Boston Dynamics’ creepy Spot robot, and they’re not being very transparent about what the four-legged mechanical hellhound is getting up to while it’s in (...)
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Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves - 1er mars 2021
In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions.
CHULA VISTA, Calif. — When the Chula Vista police receive a 911 call, they can dispatch a flying drone with the press of a button.
On a recent afternoon, from a (...)
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The Shoddy Science Behind Emotional Recognition Tech - 19 février 2021
People’s facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time
Facial recognition isn’t just for verifying a person’s identity. In recent years, researchers and startups have focused on other ways to apply the technology, like emotion recognition, which tries to read facial expressions to understand (...)
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Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters - 9 février 2021
The warrant ordered the search giant to turn over user account data.
Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd last year, TechCrunch has learned.
The death of Floyd, a (...)
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San Francisco Takes Small Step to Establish Oversight Over Business Association Surveillance - 3 février 2021
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously in favor of requiring all special business districts—such as the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID)—to bring any new surveillance plans to the Board before adopting new technologies.
The resolution—passed in the wake of an EFF (...)
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We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill - 16 janvier 2021
Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our (...)
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A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys - 15 janvier 2021
Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server.
Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use prohibitively expensive video visitation services that often don’t work.
But now the (...)
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Oakland Privacy and the People of Vallejo Prevail in the Fight For Surveillance Accountability - 7 janvier 2021
Just as the 2020 holiday season was beginning in earnest, Solano Superior Court Judge Bradley Nelson upheld the gift of surveillance accountability that the California State legislature had provided state residents when they passed 2015’s Senate Bill 741 (Cal. Govt. Code § 53166). Judge Bradley’s order brought (...)
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Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition - 29 décembre 2020
The racial justice movement pushed problems with the technology into public consciousness—but despite scandals and bans, its growth isn’t slowing.
America’s first confirmed wrongful arrest by facial recognition technology happened in January 2020. Robert Williams, a Black man, was arrested in his driveway just (...)
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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here - 19 décembre 2020
But will the current bans last ?
The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforcement, military organizations, and private companies for years, leveraging 40-year old partnerships originally centered around fingerprint databases.
But in 2020, the industry faced an unexpected (...)
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As Cities Curb Surveillance, Baltimore Police Took to the Air - 11 décembre 2020
In a program that overcame three court challenges this year, planes with high-tech cameras circled the city up to 40 hours a week.
In August 2016, a Bloomberg report revealed a secret aerial surveillance program in Baltimore led by the city’s police department. Over eight months, planes equipped with cameras (...)
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San Francisco Supervisors Must Rein In SFPD’s Abuse of Surveillance Cameras - 14 octobre 2020
Black, white, or indigenous ; well-resourced or indigent ; San Francisco residents should be free to assemble and protest without fear of police surveillance technology or retribution. That should include Black-led protesters of San Francisco who took to the streets in solidarity and protest, understanding that (...)
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Activists Sue San Francisco for Wide-Ranging Surveillance of Black-Led Protests Against Police Violence - 8 octobre 2020
Violating San Francisco’s Surveillance Technology Ordinance, SFPD Secretly Used Camera Network to Spy on People Protesting Police Killing of George Floyd
San Francisco—Local activists sued San Francisco today over the city police department’s illegal use of a network of more than 400 non-city surveillance cameras to (...)
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Homeland Security Wants to Erase Its History of Misconduct - 7 octobre 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to destroy thousands of complaint records it claims have no historical value.
Agencies under the Department of Homeland Security have been accused of performing forced hysterectomies on detained immigrants, deporting witnesses to systemic sexual abuse in immigration (...)
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Future EU-US data transfers ? EU must push back on the US’s surveillance game - 2 octobre 2020
Brussels & Washington DC — Access Now and the American Civil Liberties Union are calling on the European Commission to press the United States to reform its surveillance laws, so that any future instrument for EU-US data transfers complies with EU law and withstands judicial scrutiny.
The groups are set to (...)
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How San Francisco police surveillance closed in on Black Lives Matter protests - 19 septembre 2020
Activists and privacy advocates say police use of indiscriminate monitoring erodes fundamental freedoms
When Marquise Rosier joined hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters on May 31 in downtown San Francisco, he knew that the police would have their eyes on him.
“My thought process going in was ‘Yeah, I know for (...)
