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Brooklyn
fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks agoPrivacy advocates urge Mamdani to use his mayoral powers and scale back the NYPD's surveillance programs | amNewYork
Privacy advocates urge Mayor Mamdani to use mayoral powers to dismantle NYPD surveillance infrastructure, including blocking ICE access, abolishing discriminatory databases, grounding drones, and banning facial recognition.
fromsfist.com
2 months agoReport: Flock Safety, Maker of SF's License Plate Reader Cameras, Had Gobsmacking Security Flaw
Turns out anyone with an internet connection, and not even a password, could access the feeds of a line of the Flock surveillance cameras that are currently all the rage with the SFPD and Oakland Police Department. Below we see pictured what is likely one of those Flock Safety automated license plate reader cameras, one of the 400 of these new security cameras in SF that are are taking three million surveillance photos every day.
Privacy technologies
Privacy technologies
fromComputerWeekly.com
3 months agoHow police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion | Computer Weekly
Live facial recognition reshapes police suspicion and undermines human-in-the-loop safeguards by making officers intermediaries acting on algorithmic suggestions, normalizing automated surveillance.
Privacy technologies
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
3 months agoAxon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Adding face recognition to police body-worn cameras enables pervasive identification, watchlist-driven policing, and risks misidentification, privacy loss, and surveillance of lawful activity.
National Football League
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 months agoESPN's Ryan Clark Apologizes On-Air in Response to New Evidence in Case of Deceased Football Player Kyren Lacy
Ryan Clark apologized after police released surveillance confirming Kyren Lacy illegally moved into the oncoming lane before a fatal crash, contradicting earlier declarations of innocence.
Privacy professionals
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
5 months agoHow Meta Is Censoring Abortion | EFFector 37.13
ALPR-enabled police drones, First Amendment challenges to a TikTok ban, privacy protections for abandoned phones, and findings on abortion-related social media censorship are central digital rights concerns.
fromComputerWeekly.com
5 months agoMcCullough Review finds PSNI failures but no 'systemic' surveillance of journalists | Computer Weekly
The PSNI made 21 applications for communications data to identify journalists' sources without recognising the "overriding public interest" in protecting their confidentiality. The police force maintained a secret register containing the phone numbers of over 1,000 journalists and others, as part of a "defensive operation" to identify PSNI staff who had spoken to journalists. There were concerns about a PSNI operation to monitor the social media posts of investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre.
Privacy professionals
fromPrivacy International
7 months agoRevealed: "Skyrocketing" scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases
"Our passports have been secretly turned into mugshots. The government has taken all of our passport photos and secretly turned them into mugshots to build a giant, Orwellian police database."
Privacy professionals
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