AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town — Now They’re Everywhere
By Joseph Cox Spread across four computer monitors arranged in a grid, a blue and green interface shows the location of more than 50 different…
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Swedish Privacy Watchdog Opposes Police Proposal to Use Passport Biometrics
By Masha Borak Sweden’s law enforcement agencies are pushing to increase the use of biometrics in their work after a spew of gang-related violence rocked…
Town Repeatedly Surveilled Man’s Yard With Drone Without a Warrant
By Jason Koebler The Michigan Supreme Court heard a case Wednesday that will determine if it was legal under the Fourth Amendment for a local…
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
By Jennifer Lynch and Andrew Crocker Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of…
Watchdog Cries Foul over Scotland Police Biometrics-sharing Pilot Storing Data in US
By Jim Nash A Police Scotland biometric evidence-sharing pilot project has been accused of being not just needlessly risky but of being criminal by Scotland’s…
This Is Not Freedom, America: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course…
UK Minister Wants Police Biometric Passport Database Searches to Catch Shoplifters
By Chris Burt CCTV images from shoplifting, burglary and theft investigations in the UK should be compared against Home Office passport and immigration databases with…
Grandma Sexually Abused by Police Over Window Tint, in Ominous Secret ‘Torture Warehouse’ — Lawsuit
By Matt Agorist Baton Rouge, LA — In a recent revelation that sends chills down the spine of those familiar with the Homan Square revelations…
Cities Should Act NOW to Ban Predictive Policing…and Stop Using ShotSpotter, Too
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…
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
By Jason Koebler A food delivery robot company that delivers for Uber Eats in Los Angeles provided video filmed by one of its robots to…
INTERPOL Plans Big Data and Biometrics Platform to Give Police Predictive Analytics
By Chris Burt INTERPOL is building a platform for processing massive amounts of data, including biometrics, to give police around the world predictive analytics, according…
Police Dept Will Send Drones to Investigate Outdoor Parties When Neighbors Complain
By B.N. Frank Not everybody likes drones. They’re loud. They’re privacy invasive. In addition to their potential for crashing, they can create other dangerous situations. …
Federal Judge Upholds Arizonans’ Right to Record the Police
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz The Arizona legislature last year passed a law (H.B. 2319 codified at A.R.S. § 13-3732) banning the video recording…
Black Woman Matched by Facial Recognition Alleges Police Misconduct in Lawsuit
By Chris Burt Another person in the United States is alleging a wrongful arrest based on a false match by facial recognition software used by…