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…
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The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know.
By Beryl Lipton and Cooper Quintin A proposal document from Jacobs Technology, provided to the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) and first spotted by the Boston…
Speed Cameras In Atlanta Improperly Issued $300,000 To $500,000 Worth Of Tickets
By Tyler Durden This is where the future is heading when we leave the police work up to big brother and AI. Innocent drivers in…
Those wronged by facial recognition join rights groups in calling for police ban
By Joel R. McConvey There is a small but growing lobby made up of people who have been wrongly arrested as a result of facial…
Facewatch, Met police face lawsuits after facial recognition misidentification
By Masha Borak Biometric security company Facewatch, which provides facial recognition software to shops across the UK, is facing a lawsuit after its system wrongly…
Surveillance Prison Taking Shape: Facial Recognition is Turning Us Into Walking ID Cards
The following excerpt is from page 4 of The Light (Issue 44, April 2024) published by The Light Paper. The Light is a people-funded monthly newspaper that can either…
Caught in the Crosshairs? How Geofence Warrants Turn Innocent People into Suspects
By Michael Boldin Imagine being a suspect for simply walking near a crime scene. That’s the reality of a mass, warrantless surveillance tool called a…
Police in US cities that ban facial recognition asking others to do it for them
By Joel R. McConvey A major report in the Washington Post has found that law enforcement officers in U.S. several cities where facial recognition tech…
UK invests in 4 police vans with live facial recognition to cut knife crime
By Chris Burt The UK government has announced investments in live facial recognition and research and development for remote scanning technologies as it attempts to…
Clearview AI facial recognition gets green light for use by Dallas police
By Joel R. McConvey Police in Dallas, Texas are getting AI-driven facial recognition technology. Local ABC affiliate WFAA reports that city council has approved the…
Rights commission concerned about proposed facial recognition bill for Irish police
By Abigail Opiah The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has stated that the legislation regarding the proposed implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT)…
Police in Germany using live facial recognition
By Masha Borak Police in Germany are employing high-definition cameras and live facial recognition to catch suspects, raising legal questions in the wake of 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…
Indian police adopt facial recognition despite risk of massive data breaches
By Joel McConvey “Real-time facial recognition” typically refers to continuous biometric monitoring. But it applies equally as well to the experience of watching in real…