Terror by Night: Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes…
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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…
Latest False Arrest Involving Facial Recognition in US Sure to Fuel Backlash
By Chris Burt Another arrest in the United States that relied on facial recognition has resulted in a horror story of misidentification and a lawsuit….
Biometric Surveillance Options Increase for US Police
By Jim Nash Proving that it is not always good to be right, public and private video surveillance is gaining critical mass in U.S. cities…
LAPD Plans to Include Private Cameras in 10K-strong Surveillance Network
By Bianca Gonzalez The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) intends to develop a new surveillance center that will give police centralized access to live security…
UK Police Have Been Secretly Using Passport Database for Facial Recognition for 3 Years
By Masha Borak Police in the UK have been using the country’s passport holder database to conduct facial recognition searches without public disclosure, a new…
Victory: Utah Supreme Court Upholds Right to Refuse to Tell Cops Your Passcode
By Andrew Crocker Last week, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors violated a defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination when they presented testimony about…
UK Police Use of Facial Recognition Probed by Lawmakers
By Masha Borak Police in the UK have been ramping up the use of facial recognition technology with plans for further rollouts in 2024, sparking…
French Politicians Vow Legal Action on Alleged Illegal Facial Recognition Use by Police
By Ayang Macdonald A recent report that the French national police has been using a facial recognition system from Israel illegally for the past eight…
EFF to Supreme Court: Fifth Amendment Protects People from Being Forced to Enter or Hand Over Cell Phone Passcodes to the Police
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling undermining Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination and find that constitutional…
AI is Already Being Melded with Robotics – One Outcome Could be Powerful New Weapons
Mark Tsagas, University of East London Interest in the incorporation of robots into security, policing and military operations has been steadily increasing over the last…
Police Circumventing Warrant Requirements By Purchasing Data from Private Vendors
By Michael Maharrey John Adams warned us that if we give government an inch, it will take a mile. “The nature of the encroachment upon…
Court Says Carmakers Not Violating Privacy Laws for Storing Text Messages that Could Later Be Retrieved by Law Enforcement
By B.N. Frank If you value your privacy but still send text messages via your car infotainment system, you may want to re-think that. From…
Cops Sneak Onto Man’s Property, Confiscate Surveillance Camera Without a Warrant
By Jason Koebler In April, a Virginia conservation police officer (known as a “game warden”) walked into the yard of a man named Joshua Highlander,…