How Many U.S. Persons Does Section 702 Spy On? The ODNI Needs to Come Clean.
By Matthew Guariglia EFF has joined with 23 other organizations including the ACLU, Restore the Fourth, the Brennan Center for Justice, Access Now, and the…
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Police are Using Drones More and Spending More For Them
By Matthew Guariglia and Beryl Lipton Police in Minnesota are buying and flying more drones than ever before, according to an annual report recently released…
The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy
By Matthew Guariglia, Brendan Gilligan, and Cindy Cohn A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two days after the U.S. Congress renewed and expanded the…
What Can Go Wrong When Police Use AI to Write Reports?
By Matthew Guariglia Axon—the makers of widely-used police body cameras and tasers (and that also keeps trying to arm drones)—has a new product: AI that…
Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition is Tornado of Bad Ideas
By Paige Collings and Matthew Guariglia In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then…
San Francisco Police’s Live Surveillance Yields Almost 200 Hours of Spying — Including of Music Festivals
By Saira Hussain and Matthew Guariglia A new report reveals that in just three months, from July 1 to September 30, 2023, the San Francisco…
Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users
By Matthew Guariglia Amazon’s Ring has announced that it will no longer facilitate police’s warrantless requests for footage from Ring users. This is a victory…
U.S. Senator: What Do Our Cars Know? And Who Do They Share that Information With?
By Matthew Guariglia U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has sent a much-needed letter to car manufacturers asking them to clarify a surprisingly hard question…
The Intelligence Committees’ Proposals for a 702 Reauthorization Bill are Beyond Bad
By Matthew Guariglia Both congressional intelligence committees have now released proposals for reauthorizing the government’s Section 702 spying powers, largely as-is, and in the face…
Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn’t be Tied to Funding the Government
By Matthew Guariglia Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in December unless Congress renews it. EFF and others have…
Adtech Surveillance and Government Surveillance are Often the Same Surveillance
By Matthew Guariglia In the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the United States, the targeted advertising industry, fueled by personal information harvested from…
GAO Report Shows the Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability, Transparency, or Training
By Beryl Lipton and Matthew Guariglia Federal agents are using face recognition software without training, policies, or oversight, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO)….
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…
The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars
By Matthew Guariglia Within a few years, fully self-driving cars have gone from science fiction to a very common reality for people in San Francisco…