By Matthew Guariglia San Francisco Mayor London Breed has pulled a harmful ballot initiative that threatened to gut the city’s landmark 2019 surveillance oversight ordinance….
By Matthew Guariglia On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, the official research and development arm of the…
By Matthew Guariglia Across the country, police departments are using myriad means and resources at their disposal to stock up on drones. According to the…
By Matthew Guariglia Decades ago, when imagining the practical uses of artificial intelligence, science fiction writers imagined autonomous digital minds that could serve humanity. Sure,…
By Matthew Guariglia Technology rarely invents new societal problems. Instead, it digitizes them, supersizes them, and allows them to balloon and duplicate at the speed…
By Matthew Guariglia A federal statute authorizes the Pentagon to transfer surveillance technology, among other military equipment, to state and local police. This threatens privacy,…
By Matthew Guariglia As the United States pulled its troops out of Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, byproducts of the prolonged deployment took on new…
By Cindy Cohn and Matthew Guariglia The twentieth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2021 are a good time to reflect on the world…
By Matthew Guariglia It’s no longer science fiction or unreasonable paranoia. Now, it needs to be said: No, police must not be arming land-based robots…
By Matthew Guariglia Between the increasing capabilities of local and state police, the creep of federal law enforcement into domestic policing, the use of aerial…
By Matthew Guariglia and Karen Gullo In March 2016, “smart” doorbell camera maker Ring was a growing company attempting to market its wireless smart security…
By Matthew Guariglia Amazon Ring has announced that it will change the way police can request footage from millions of doorbell cameras in communities across…
By Matthew Guariglia Predictive policing is dangerous and yet its use among law enforcement agencies is growing. Predictive policing advocates, and companies that make millions…
By Matthew Guariglia The new administration can do two things immediately that would help stop some of the more nefarious ways that police departments get…