We’re All Suspects in a DNA Lineup, Waiting to be Matched with a Crime
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you…
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Watch: San Francisco Retailers Are Abandoning The City In Droves
By Tyler Durden Remember when San Francisco officials and the media denied that retailers were leaving metro areas? Then they claimed that the businesses leaving…
Proposed Cybercrime Treaty’s International Cooperation Provisions Could Let Tyrants Run Amok
By Katitza Rodgriguez This is the third segment in EFF’s series on the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention focusing on Chapter V, International Cooperation. Read Part…
Detroit Police Change Facial Recognition Procedure as Falsely Accused Woman Sues
By Jim Nash Police leadership in the U.S. city of Detroit is reacting to a wrongful arrest lawsuit by defending facial recognition software and coming…
Cars Easier for Criminals to Steal or Crash Thanks to New “Internet of Vehicles” Tech; “In fact, this is already happening.”
By B.N. Frank It wasn’t that long ago when owning and operating automobiles was NOT complicated. Now they are being manufactured with technologies that spy…
Wells Fargo Accused of Scam Involving Racketeering, Synthetic Identity Fraud
By Bianca Gonzalez Wells Fargo has been hit with a putative class action alleging that they worked with a credit reporting agency that they co-own…
Black Woman Matched by Facial Recognition Alleges Police Misconduct in Lawsuit
By Chris Burt Another person in the United States is alleging a wrongful arrest based on a false match by facial recognition software used by…
From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape
By Nick Corbishley The Home Office is encouraging police forces across the country to make use of live facial recognition technologies for routine law enforcement….
Deepfake Fraud Surges More Than 1000%, Insiders Say It’s Just The Beginning
By Autumn Spredemann As the line between fact and fiction gets harder to distinguish, online criminals need just two hours to create a realistic, computer-generated…
Bar for UK Crimes Prosecuted with Live Facial Recognition Could Get Much Lower
By Jim Nash Pledges by the UK government that its use of biometric data in law enforcement would be limited to, for example, the most…
Innocent Man Beaten to Death in Jail After Being Sentenced to a Decade for Having Kratom
By Matt Agorist Last week, the Free Thought Project delved into the deeply unsettling story of Shaina Brown, an Alabama resident facing a potential life sentence over…
WormGPT And FraudGPT Emerge As Scammers Weaponize AI Chatbots To Steal Data
By Tyler Durden Threat actors are using generative artificial intelligence tools “to automate the creation of highly convincing fake emails, personalized to the recipient, thus…
Indian District Rolls Out Live Facial Recognition to Fight Crime Wave
By Masha Borak A district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is rolling out a crime-fighting search engine powered by live facial recognition called…
Innocent Woman Facing Life in Prison for Legally Purchasing Kratom & Driving 200 Feet Into Alabama
By Matt Agorist In a disgusting display of what’s fundamentally wrong with America’s drug war, Shaina Brown, an entirely innocent woman, who harmed no one,…