Category Archives: Surveillance technology

WaPo: ‘I killed Jennifer’: Doorbell camera captures a man confessing to his sister’s stabbing, police say by Brittany Shammas (“Michael Egwuagu was arrested on a murder charge — a stunning turn for the once-standout college football player.”)

BuzzFeed: The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance by Megha Rajagopalan (“Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds.”)

Fortune: Why Apple and Google Have ‘No Real Way’ to Stop Surveillance Apps Like ToTok by Alyssa Newcomb (“Perhaps the most troubling part of it all is that there would have been no way for either company to detect any … Continue reading →

WaPo: Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands by Drew Harwell:

Biometric Update: Federal, state court rulings on whether biometrics protected by Fifth Amendment get murky by Anthony Kimery (“Because courts have ruled they are, and they aren’t, U.S. Supreme Court may be final arbiter.”)

NYTimes: How Your Phone Betrays Democracy by Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson. Hong Kong protestors tracked by their cell phones:

Pacific Legal Foundation: How the Fourth Amendment can protect us from becoming a surveillance state by Daniel Woislaw. Can it if we aren’t constantly vigilant, and not just going along?

WaPo: Editorial: Why Congress needs to regulate facial-recognition systems (“A MASSIVE government study in which more than 18 million images of more than 8 million people were run through almost 200 algorithms has confirmed what researchers have been warning for years: Facial-recognition … Continue reading →

NYTimes: Opinion: You Should Be Freaking Out About Privacy featuring Farhad Manjoo and Kara Swisher (“Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? Think again.”)

NYTimes Editorial: Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For:

NYTimes: Police Surveillance Planes to Fly Above Baltimore in 2020 by AP (“BALTIMORE — The city of Baltimore will be monitored by surveillance airplanes for up to six months next year under a pilot program announced Friday that is aimed … Continue reading →

NYTimes: Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study by Natasha Singer and Cade Metz (“Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.”)

NYTimes: Your Landlord Could Know That You’re Not at Home Right Now by Michael McKee (“Key fobs and other smart-access technologies make it easier for us to get in and out of our homes — but they’re also a privacy … Continue reading →

WaPo: She installed a Ring camera in her children’s room for ‘peace of mind.’ A hacker accessed it and harassed her 8-year-old daughter. By Allyson Chiu (“Several Ring users nationwide have reported that their security systems were also infiltrated by … Continue reading →