Category Archives: Surveillance technology

Malwarebytes: How the cops buy a “God view” of your location data

Malwarebytes: How the cops buy a “God view” of your location data, with Bennett Cyphers: Lock and Code S04E09:

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techdirt: CBP Tells Senator Ron Wyden It Will Stop Buying Location Data From Third Parties

techdirt: CBP Tells Senator Ron Wyden It Will Stop Buying Location Data From Third Parties by Tim Cushing:

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Daily Kos: Your car is spying on you

Daily Kos: Your car is spying on you by Dartagnan:

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NBC: Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while 8-months pregnant due to facial recognition technology

NBC: Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while 8-months pregnant due to facial recognition technology by Mirna Alsharif & Cristian Santana (She was alleged to have committed a carjacking three weeks earlier despite being 7½ months pregnant. “‘Ms. … Continue reading

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Interesting Engineering: AI cameras are watching millions of cars in the US to nab criminals

Interesting Engineering: AI cameras are watching millions of cars in the US to nab criminals by Sejal Dharma (“A drug trafficker was arrested last year after an AI camera watched it move across states for two years.”)

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WIRED: Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras

WIRED: Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras by Adrienne So (“They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.”):

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Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show

Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show by Andrew Sheeler:

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The Intercept: LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes

The Intercept: LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes by Sam Biddle (“ICE uses LexisNexis to track cars, gather information on people, and make arrests for its deportation machine, according to a … Continue reading

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Wired: An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance

Wired: An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance by Dhruv Mehrotra (“A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and … Continue reading

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NYT: One of the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy Is Under Threat

NYT: One of the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy Is Under Threat by Julia Angwin:

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Forbes: U.S. Government Buying ‘Intimate’ Data About Americans, Report Finds

Forbes: U.S. Government Buying ‘Intimate’ Data About Americans, Report Finds by Katherine Hamilton of the Forbes Staff (“Data brokers that collect information from Americans’ phones, web browsers and cars have contracts with numerous government agencies to sell them that data, … Continue reading

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EFF: Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him

EFF: Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him by Karen Gullo (“In a victory for transparency in police use of facial recognition, a New Jersey appellate court today ruled that … Continue reading

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NACDL: 4 articles on electronic searches

Clare Harvie, What Defense Counsel Should Know About Facial Recognition Technology, 47 Champion 16 (No. 3, May 2023) Jennifer S. Granick, Marking Warrants Great Again: Avoiding General Searches in the Execution of Warrants for Electronic Data, 47 Champion 28 (No. … Continue reading

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NYT: Bad facial recognition match

NYT: Police Relied on Hidden Technology and Put the Wrong Person in Jail by Kashmir Hill and Ryan Mac (“Randal Reid spent nearly a week in confinement, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never … Continue reading

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Reason: Senators Ask DEA To Stop Buying Its Way Around Civil Liberties

Reason: Senators Ask DEA To Stop Buying Its Way Around Civil Liberties by Elizabeth Nolan Brown (“‘DEA agents were regularly paying for and receiving private customer information.’ Rather than obtain a warrant for some mailed packages or consumer travel data, … Continue reading

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Even burner phones can be sometimes traced

Detroit News: Woman guilty in threats case after 2020 presidential election by Robert Snell:

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Wired: Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong

Wired; Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong (“Alonzo Sawyer’s misidentification by algorithm made him a suspect for a crime police now say was committed by someone else—feeding debate over regulation.”)

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Reason: The Feds Are Buying Their Way Around the 4th Amendment

We gave away our privacy, fair and square, and capitalism trumps the Fourth Amendment: Reason: The Feds Are Buying Their Way Around the 4th Amendment by David McGarry (“Government agencies have paid to access huge amounts of Americans’ data.”)

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WaPo: Youngkin opposes effort to shield menstrual data from law enforcement

WaPo: Youngkin opposes effort to shield menstrual data from law enforcement by Laura Vozzella & Gregory S. Schneider (“The administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) helped defeat a bill this week to put menstrual data stored on period-tracking apps beyond … Continue reading

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ABA: Katz or Dogs? Why the Katz Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Test Is More Applicable to Advancing Technology than a Test Applied to Dog Sniffs

Katz or Dogs? Why the Katz Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Test Is More Applicable to Advancing Technology than a Test Applied to Dog Sniffs by Blade M. Allen (ABA Criminal Justice Jan. 23, 2023). (And I’m tired of cutsy Katz … Continue reading

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