Category Archives: Surveillance technology

NYLJ: ‘This Is Not Science Fiction’: Trump Administration Uses Peter Thiel’s ‘Planantir’ Surveillance Technology to Spy on Americans

NYLJ: ‘This Is Not Science Fiction’: Trump Administration Uses Peter Thiel’s ‘Planantir’ Surveillance Technology to Spy on Americans by Bennett L. Gershman:

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OH: No REP in single location info entered into a phone app

Defendant’s single location information entered into a phone app that was used to set up a robbery was basic third-party information not protected by Carpenter. State v. Diaw, 2025-Ohio-2323 (July 2, 2025):

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National Review: Washington State to Use Drivers’ Cell Phone Data to Enforce Traffic Laws

National Review: Washington State to Use Drivers’ Cell Phone Data to Enforce Traffic Laws by John R. Puri (but it just sounds like what Google collects for GPS traffic):

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Reason: Florida Used a Nationwide Surveillance Camera Network 250 Times To Aid in Immigration Arrests

Reason: Florida Used a Nationwide Surveillance Camera Network 250 Times To Aid in Immigration Arrests by Autumn Billings (“Flock Safety’s 40,000 cameras present in over 5,000 communities across the U.S. are being used to detain undocumented immigrants, many of whom … Continue reading

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Marshall Project: How AI-Powered Police Forces Watch Your Every Move

Marshall Project: How AI-Powered Police Forces Watch Your Every Move by Jamiles Lartley (“Artificial intelligence is changing how police investigate crimes — and monitor citizens — as regulators struggle to keep pace.”)

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EFF: The Defense Attorney’s Arsenal In Challenging Electronic Monitoring

EFF: The Defense Attorney’s Arsenal In Challenging Electronic Monitoring by Hannah Zhao:

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WSJ: Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment

WSJ: Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment by Lauro Landro (“New systems for documenting outpatient visits are adding features and moving into hospitals; ‘we are just scratching the surface’”)

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The Intercept: U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

The Intercept: U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data by Sam Biddle (“The ever-growing market for personal data has been a boon for American spy agencies. The U.S. intelligence community is now … Continue reading

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The Intercept: U.S. Spy Agencies Get One-Stop Shop to Buy Highly Sensitive Personal Data

The Intercept: U.S. Spy Agencies Get One-Stop Shop to Buy Highly Sensitive Personal Data by Sam Boddie (“The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.”)

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WaPo: Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

WaPo: Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras by Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer (“For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without … Continue reading

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Reason: New Montana Law Blocks the State From Buying Private Data To Skirt the Fourth Amendment

Reason: New Montana Law Blocks the State From Buying Private Data To Skirt the Fourth Amendment by Joe Lancaster (“The Big Sky State becomes the first to close the ‘data broker loophole’ allowing the government to get private information without … Continue reading

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LawFare: Tracing the Origins of a ‘New American Surveillance State’

LawFare: Tracing the Origins of a ‘New American Surveillance State’ by Sarah Lamdan (“A review of Byron Tau, ‘Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State’ (Crown, 2024)”)

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E.D.Mo.: Carpenter does not protect ISP information

Carpenter creates no protection for ISP subscriber information. No Due Process rights were violated though a § 1509 summons. United States v. Meyrand, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 84060 (E.D. Mo. May 2, 2025).* This court declined to abandon the automobile … Continue reading

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techpolicy: Reverse Keyword Search Warrants and the Threat to Online Privacy

techpolicy: Reverse Keyword Search Warrants and the Threat to Online Privacy by Abigail Zislis (“Online privacy rights, already limited in the United States, face new threats from the advent of reverse keyword search warrants. In recent years, local and federal … Continue reading

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CNS: FTC calls AI detection company’s claim of 98% accuracy bogus

CNS: FTC calls AI detection company’s claim of 98% accuracy bogus by Joe Dodson (“The commission says Workado’s detection technology offers closer to 50% accuracy when analyzing whether non-academic content contains AI-generated text.”)

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Bloomberg Law: Bootleggers, Cops, and Cars: How Driving Became a Privacy Trap

Bloomberg Law: Bootleggers, Cops, and Cars: How Driving Became a Privacy Trap by Cassandre Coyer, Tonya Riley & Jorja Siemons about automatic license plate readers in Norfolk VA. A subheading: “Data a Modern Car Can Collect”:

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NYTimes: This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump

NYTimes: This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump By Paul Mozyr, Adam Satariano & Aaron Krolik (“Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business … Continue reading

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LAT: A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD — then drama ensued

LAT: A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD — then drama ensued by Libor Jany:

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Mother Jones: The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

Mother Jones: The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI by Luke O’Brien (“Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now … Continue reading

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TheStreet: Google’s Waymo is planning a move that’s downright creepy

TheStreet: Google’s Waymo is planning a move that’s downright creepy by Colette Bennett:

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