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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)….
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…
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…
By Matthew Guariglia We all deserve privacy in our communications, and part of that is trusting that the government will only access them within the…