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EDITORIAL: Rein in facial recognition technology to protect privacy
suntimes.com - BySun-Times Editorial Board
Celebrities have long bemoaned their lost ability to disappear into a crowd. The rest of us are on the brink of sharing that dismal feeling — without …
The new electronic police state
TechCrunch - Jonathan Shieber
Matthew Feeney Contributor Matthew Feeney is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. According to the government, your privacy protections evaporate the moment you set foot in an airport. Although the
Feds asking Facebook for info on anti-Trump activists
CNET - by Michelle Meyers
DOJ even wants info on the 6,000 people who liked the DistruptJ20 Facebook page, search warrants show.
ACLU fights warrants over Facebook users’ info
The Mercury News - The Washington Post
By Ann E. Marimow | Washington Post WASHINGTON – Civil liberties lawyers are trying to block federal investigators from searching the Facebook …
Justice
NSA reveals 100,000 foreign nationals under surveillance
CNN - By Jim Sciutto and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Washington (CNN) — The National Security Agency is currently conducting surveillance on more than 100,000 foreign nationals outside the US, several senior US officials revealed Monday, highlighting cases
The Boston Police Department Has Drones
bostonmagazine.com - Spencer Buell
BPD reportedly bought three of them this year. By · Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great …
Privacy Isn't A Zero-Sum Game -- The Truth About The FISA Amendments Act
Forbes - Frank Miniter
Intelligence Director Dan Coats is coaxing Congress to renew the FISA Amendments Act, a 2008 law that allows the NSA to tap into the communications of “non-U.S. persons” outside the U.S. and that allows
Moscow's facial recognition CCTV network is the biggest example of surveillance society yet
Mashable - Gianluca Mezzofiore
We already knew that the city of Moscow is saturated with CCTV cameras, but we've only just learned the extent that the city is able to conduct …
Google reports all-time high of government data requests
CNET - by Alfred Ng
In Google's latest transparency report, even more governments want to know what people are doing online.
Moscow is adding facial recognition to CCTVs to ID criminals
Engadget - Mariella Moon
But it can only afford to deploy the system where it's needed the most. Moscow's local authorities are giving the city's 170,000 security cameras a power-up. According to Bloomberg, they're adding facial
Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
The Intercept - Alex Emmons
The Trump administration is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law — section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence …
Trump administration orders Facebook to hand over private information on 'anti-administration activists'
independent.co.uk - Jeremy B White
The Department of Justice has demanded Facebook turn over information about three anti-Trump activists, drawing a legal challenge from civil …
Google warns that govt is demanding more of your private data than ever
ZDNet - Liam Tung
And thousands more user accounts have been affected by US national security orders than previously reported. Google received more government requests …
How Robots, IoT And Artificial Intelligence Are Transforming The Police
Forbes - Bernard Marr
It’s happened. Arrests have been made thanks to the evidence collected from connected digital devices such as the Amazon dot and a Fitbit. This is just the tip of the transformation that law enforcement
CPD to undergo training for new use-of-force policy
abc7chicago.com - By
A new training regimen for Chicago police officers is the next step in an effort to overhaul the CPD's use of force on city streets, the department …
5 Techniques Interrogators Use To Get Confessions From Murderers
Oxygen - Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Here are actual interrogation techniques investigators use to get confessions. The second season of "Criminal Confessions," which premieres October 13 …
Taser Wants to Build an Army of Smartphone Informants
The Intercept - Ava Kofman
Axon, the world’s largest vendor of police-worn body cameras, is moving into the business of capturing video taken by the public. In a survey emailed …
Police 'interaction training' will be worth it if it eases fear on all sides
dallasnews.com - Jacquielynn Floyd, Metro columnist
Beginning next year, Texas teenagers will start getting "how to" lessons in the startlingly obvious: how to get stopped by a cop. Under a new state …
In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’ - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times - By Amina Khan
When New York police officers temporarily reduced their "proactive policing" efforts on low-level offenses, major-crime reports in the city actually fell, according to a study based on New York Police
6 more Chicago police districts to get gunshot detection technology
Chicago Tribune - Jeremy Gorner
The Chicago Police Department will be expanding its gunshot detection capabilities and their integration with other crime-fighting technology into six patrol districts, a police spokesman said Friday This
Feds Monitoring Social Media Does More Harm Than Good
WIRED - Lily Hay Newman
For privacy wonks and casual observers alike, border screening and surveillance has become an increasing area of critical concern over the last year. …