Sharp Rise in Facial Recognition Use by Scottish Police, UK Protest Footage Scanned
By Masha Borak The police in Scotland have tripled the use of retrospective facial recognition over the last five years jumping from just under 1,300…
Crime
AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town — Now They’re Everywhere
By Joseph Cox Spread across four computer monitors arranged in a grid, a blue and green interface shows the location of more than 50 different…
Big Brother Unchained: UK Govt To Abolish Biometrics & Surveillance Safeguards As It Embraces Facial Recognition
By Nick Corbishley “The lack of attention being paid to [public safeguards] at such a crucial time is shocking, and destruction of the surveillance camera code…
Assange Approaches Five Years Of Incarceration Without Trial
(People’s Dispatch) Famed publisher and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is approaching five years of imprisonment without conviction for his role in exposing information regarding war…
UK Shoplifting Jumps 25% Over Past Year
By Tyler Durden The UK has experienced a 25% spike in shoplifting across England and Wales over the past year, according to data released by…
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
By Jennifer Lynch and Andrew Crocker Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of…
Dozens More Victims Join Class Action Lawsuit against Apple AirTags, “one of the most dangerous and frightening technologies employed by stalkers”
By B.N. Frank Just a few months ago, Apple warned that their AirTag tracking devices should never be used to track children or pets because…
NZ Retailers Turn to Facial Recognition to Stem Surge in Crime
Problem-Reaction-Solution – Ed. By Beverly Crawford-Westre Retail crime has surged in New Zealand, with the latest Survey report published by industry group Retail NZ citing…
UK Minister Wants Police Biometric Passport Database Searches to Catch Shoplifters
By Chris Burt CCTV images from shoplifting, burglary and theft investigations in the UK should be compared against Home Office passport and immigration databases with…
Cities Should Act NOW to Ban Predictive Policing…and Stop Using ShotSpotter, Too
By Matthew Guariglia and Jason Kelley Sound Thinking, the company behind ShotSpotter—an acoustic gunshot detection technology that is rife with problems—is reportedly buying Geolitica, the…
“A National Crime” (a balanced look at the residential school systems)
By John C.A. Manley In my novel, Much Ado About Corona, one of the indigenous characters, affectionately called “Granddad” by the people of Moosehead, was…
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
By Jason Koebler A food delivery robot company that delivers for Uber Eats in Los Angeles provided video filmed by one of its robots to…
INTERPOL Plans Big Data and Biometrics Platform to Give Police Predictive Analytics
By Chris Burt INTERPOL is building a platform for processing massive amounts of data, including biometrics, to give police around the world predictive analytics, according…
Flawed Investigations, Camera Limitations Plague Mexico City’s Surveillance System
By Bianca Gonzalez In the last decade, Mexico City has installed the largest video surveillance system in the Americas, altering the way criminal investigations are…