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A key backer of a 2018 Oakland law says the city is not following the rules.
Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day.
Data is fed into Palantir and helps enable "large-scale monitoring."
“Their presence does not make people feel safe.”
And you may never know they did it.
Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year.
A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying TechnologyEFF’s “Street-Level Surveillance” project shines light on the advanced surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our
As George Floyd's death sparked protests in cities across the country, six federal agencies turned to facial-recognition software in an effort to identify people in images of the civil unrest, according to a new report from a government agency.
Doorbell cameras, smart thermostats, digital assistants, and other always-on devices open up a whole new world of privacy risks when the government has access to their data.
More and more devices are becoming part of the ‘internet of things.’ Here’s what they are, what they collect, and what police might get.
A Florida school district allegedly provided grades, attendance records and disciplinary information to the county Sheriff’s Office.
A “vehicle forensics kit” can reveal where you’ve driven, what doors you opened, and who your friends are.
A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.
Over a decade, 101 million arrest records and 45.7 million mugshots will be posted to the internet by police departments. Many of these people will be found innocent.
Training algorithms on crime reports from victims rather than arrest data is said to make predictive tools less biased. It doesn’t look like it does.
On "smart cities."
Location data on your smartphone is giving law enforcement new surveillance tools
The use of geofence warrants has increased sharply in recent years
Over the past several years, increased awareness of racial inequity in policing, combined with increased scrutiny of police technologies, have sparked concerns that new technologies may aggravate ineq...
In cities like Los Angeles, millions of dollars are spent on library-security forces.