By Bennett Cyphers, Adam Schwartz, and Nathan Sheard Governments and corporations are tracking how we go about our lives with a unique marker that most…
By Nathan Sheard and Adam Schwartz All too often, police and other government agencies unleash invasive surveillance technologies on the streets of our communities, based…
By Nathan Sheard Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In…
By Nathan Sheard Just as the 2020 holiday season was beginning in earnest, Solano Superior Court Judge Bradley Nelson upheld the gift of surveillance accountability…
By Nathan Sheard If there was any question about the gravity of problems with police use of face surveillance technology, 2020 wasted no time in…
By Nathan Sheard This Wednesday, the Portland City Council will hear from residents, businesses, and civil society as they consider banning government use of face…
By Nathan Sheard After three years of organizing by a broad coalition of civil society organizations and community members, New York’s City Council has passed…
By Nathan Sheard Earlier this week, Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously to ban local government use of face surveillance. The amendment to Oakland’s Surveillance and Community…
By Nathan Sheard The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted today by 8-to-1 to make San Francisco the first major city in the United States…
By Nathan Sheard and Jennifer Lynch Thanks to a recent ruling by Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Smith, drivers in Fairfax County, Virginia…
By Nathan Sheard The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is about to make a bad privacy situation worse, and it’s urgent that Los Angeles…
By Nathan Sheard For too long, the New York Police Department has secretly deployed cutting-edge spy tech, without notice to the public. Many of these…