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Operation Legend Is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities - 13 septembre 2020
Using federal grants, cities are contracting with companies that hack smartphones and detect gunshots.
In August, 40 federal agents arrived in Memphis. Some were already on the ground by the time U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant announced the onset of Operation Legend and the city became, along with St. Louis, the (...)
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Cops Don’t Need GPS Data to Track Your Phone at Protests - 27 août 2020
For the thousands of people protesting and reporting on George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department—or even for bystanders caught up in the demonstrations—arrests, injuries, and even death are becoming commonplace in this moment. And just like protests we’ve experienced within the past (...)
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Facial Recognition Start-Up Mounts a First Amendment Defense - 16 août 2020
Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws.
Floyd Abrams, one of the most prominent First Amendment lawyers in the country, has a new client : the facial recognition company Clearview AI.
Litigation against the (...)
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Police use of facial recognition violates human rights, UK court rules - 14 août 2020
Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.
Privacy advocates in the UK are claiming victory as an appeals court ruled today that police use of facial recognition technology in that country has "fundamental deficiencies" and violates several laws.
South Wales Police began (...)
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EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed - 4 août 2020
Can secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant ? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ (...)
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We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades - 3 août 2020
ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public.
Until last month, New York state prohibited the release of police officers’ disciplinary records. Civilians’ complaints of abuse by officers were a (...)
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CBP Flew A Predator Drone Over Minneapolis Amid George Floyd Protests - 3 août 2020
Customs and Border Protection flew a Predator drone, which is commonly used in overseas military operations, over Minneapolis today, drawing criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and others. Protests against police brutality have broken out in the city in recent days following the death of George (...)
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You Are Being Tracked - 3 août 2020
How License Plate Readers Are Being Used To Record Americans’ Movements
A little noticed surveillance technology, designed to track the movements of every passing driver, is fast proliferating on America’s streets. Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars or on objects like road signs and bridges, (...)
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How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone - 31 juillet 2020
A guide to stingray surveillance technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests.
Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in the skies : mysterious planes and (...)
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Dataminr Helped Police Use Tweets To Surveil BLM Protests - 12 juillet 2020
Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor the protests that swept the country following the killing of George Floyd, tipping off police to social media posts with the latest whereabouts and actions of demonstrators, according (...)
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Les « BlueLeaks », immense fuite de documents montrant les rouages internes de dizaines d’agences de police des Etats-Unis - 1er juillet 2020
Un collectif a mis en ligne 269 Go d’archives dans le but d’informer sur ce que la police « fait et a fait légalement ».
Une fuite impressionnante de par son volume, et aux effets potentiellement lourds de conséquence aux Etats-Unis en raison de son contenu. C’est ainsi qu’on peut résumer les « BlueLeaks », un ensemble (...)
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Man wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition software talks about ’humiliating’ experience - 28 juin 2020
A Black man in Detroit spent over a day in custody in January after an incorrect facial recognition match led to his wrongful arrest.
Robert Williams spent more than a day in custody at a Detroit detention center in January after an incorrect facial recognition match led to his wrongful arrest, in what the (...)
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California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first - 28 juin 2020
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.
“Understanding how predictive policing and facial (...)
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Many Police Departments Have Software That Can Identify People In Crowds - 28 juin 2020
BriefCam, a facial recognition and surveillance video analysis company, sells the ability to surveil protesters and enforce social distancing — without the public knowing.
As protesters demand an end to police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation, police departments around the country are using (...)
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Opinion | I was wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition. Why are police allowed to use it ? - 25 juin 2020
Robert Williams is a resident of Farmington Hills, Mich., and client of the American Civil Liberties Union.
I never thought I’d have to explain to my daughters why Daddy got arrested. How does one explain to two little girls that a computer got it wrong, but the police listened to it anyway ?
While I was leaving (...)
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A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus - 21 juin 2020
A report by the civil liberties group contends that reliance on thermal cameras and temperature-sensing guns to resume work at factories and offices and to encourage travel is flawed and intrusive.
Airports, office buildings, warehouses and restaurant chains are rushing to install new safety measures like (...)
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FBI trawled Facebook to arrest protesters for inciting riots, court records show - 20 juin 2020
Four cases offer some insight into how federal law enforcement continues to monitor online speech related to social movements.
On May 27, just two days after George Floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, an activist from St. Louis decided to drive the 540 miles north to the Twin Cities to (...)
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The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police - 18 juin 2020
This week’s moves from Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM mark a major milestone for researchers and civil rights advocates in a long and ongoing fight over face recognition in law enforcement.
In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop (...)
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Why Big Tech’s new face recognition bans don’t go far enough - 17 juin 2020
While these tech giants may have stepped back from facial recognition, their bans don’t encompass other technology they supply for police or square with their past lobbying and legislative efforts.
Advocates against flawed facial recognition systems have pushed for limits or bans on the use of these controversial (...)
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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study - 16 juin 2020
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, (...)
