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LAPD Asked for Ring Surveillance Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests - 17 février 2021
Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
Emails obtained from the Los Angeles Police Department show that the department sought protest-related footage from Amazon’s Ring home camera systems in the wake of George Floyd’s (...)
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Predict and Surveil : Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing - 30 janvier 2021
The scope of criminal justice surveillance, from policing to incarceration, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, health, and marketing. While law enforcement’s use of big data is hotly contested, very little (...)
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How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing - 30 janvier 2021
In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
The killing of George Floyd last May sparked renewed scrutiny of data-driven policing. As protests raged around the world, 1,400 researchers signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to (...)
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Aided by Palantir, the LAPD Uses Predictive Policing to Monitor Specific People and Neighborhoods - 4 janvier 2021
A new report details the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of algorithms to identify “hot spots” and “chronic offenders” and target them for surveillance.
Police stops in Los Angeles are highly concentrated within just a small portion of the population, and the Los Angeles Police Department has been using targeted (...)
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LAPD Got Tech Demos from Israeli Phone Hacking Firm NSO Group - 12 juin 2020
Emails obtained by Motherboard also reveal new details about previously unreported NSO Group products.
Members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) met with employees of the U.S.-branch of the controversial Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group and received a demo of the company’s powerful phone hacking (...)
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LAPD pioneered predicting crime with data. Many police don’t think it works - Los Angeles Times - 2 mai 2020
The Los Angeles Police Department took a revolutionary leap in 2010 when it became one of the first to employ data technology and information about past crimes to predict future unlawful activity. Other departments around the nation soon adopted predictive policing techniques.
But the widely hailed tool the LAPD (...)
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LAPD to end controversial program that aimed to predict crime - Los Angeles Times - 23 avril 2020
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore announced Tuesday that, in light of financial constraints caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the department would stop using a controversial program that predicts where property crimes could occur throughout the city.
Critics say the predictive-policing program, called (...)
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Audit : Privacy rules lacking in California’s use of license plate readers - Los Angeles Times - 19 février 2020
The Los Angeles Police Department and three other California law enforcement agencies have not provided sufficient privacy protections for the hundreds of millions of images collected by automated license plate readers and shared with other jurisdictions, the state auditor said Thursday.
Most of the images (...)
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California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up - 30 décembre 2019
A sweeping new law that aims to rewrite the rules of the internet in California is set to go into effect on Jan. 1.
Most businesses with a website and customers in California — which is to say most large businesses in the nation — must follow the new rules, which are supposed to make online life more transparent (...)
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A pioneer in predictive policing is starting a troubling new project - 30 septembre 2019
Pentagon-funded research aims to predict when crimes are gang-related
Jeff Brantingham is as close as it gets to putting a face on the controversial practice of "predictive policing." Over the past decade, the University of California-Los Angeles anthropology professor adapted his Pentagon-funded research in (...)
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The LAPD Has a New Surveillance Formula, Powered by Palantir - 8 mai 2018
Los Angeles Police Department analysts are each tasked with maintaining “a minimum” of a dozen ongoing surveillance targets for future targeting, using Palantir software and an updated “probable offender” formula, according to October 2017 documents, obtained through a public records request lawsuit by the Stop LAPD (...)
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Drones set to be deployed by Los Angeles Police Department - 19 octobre 2017
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) signed off on a year-long test of drones on Tuesday, becoming the largest police department in the U.S. to deploy the technology.
Despite vociferous protest, the Los Angeles Police Commission "” the civilian board which oversees the department "” voted 3-1 in favor of the (...)
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Should the LAPD use drones ? Here’s what’s behind the heated debate - 11 août 2017
For more than three years, a pair of drones donated to the Los Angeles Police Department was locked away, collecting dust after a public outcry over the idea of police using the controversial technology.
Seattle police saw a similar backlash when they wanted to use the devices, grounding their drone program (...)
