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Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Tech Company Enables Total Surveillance by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A little-known tech company in Texas has dramatically altered the landscape of digital police surveillance. Hawk Analytics, headquartered in Bartonville, Texas, has developed software that streamlines the process police use to turn the huge quantities of information they obtain …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
New Jersey Man Wrongly Arrested Due to Flawed Face Recognition Match by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso After being identified by faulty facial recognition software, a New Jersey man spent 10 days in jail and forfeited his savings to beat the charges. Nijeer Parks, 33, had two previous convictions for …
Article • February 15, 2021 • from CLN March, 2021
The Need for Legislation Governing Police Use of Robots by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a December 2020 report in the libertarian magazine Reason, Bonnie Kristian presents a compelling case for legislation governing use of robots by police. She begins by comparing robots to the implementation and expanded use …
Inadequate and Outdated Training Results in Wild West Policing by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. The cause for incidents of police violence in recent years, particularly in the sequence of events that played out in the spring and summer of 2020, has been ascribed predominantly to systemic and …
Article • December 15, 2020 • from CLN January, 2021
Texas Police S.W.A.T. Woman Over Anti-Cop Bumper Stickers by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Lauren Mestas of Austin, Texas, is an avid supporter of social justice and equality. She attended Black Lives Matter protests in Austin and was an eyewitness to the shooting of AK-47-toting Garrett Foster at the intersection …
Article • December 15, 2020 • from CLN January, 2021
Startup Surveils Communities of Color for Police Using Twitter by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Twitter-oriented startup Dataminr markets itself as offering an AI-enabled tool designed to identify “threats” in real-time by scanning Twitter posts. Reporting by The Intercept shows, however, that humans are scanning Twitter feeds and creating “alerts” …
Article • December 15, 2020 • from CLN January, 2021
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces Use of Pole Cameras for Extended Surveillance of Residence Constitutes Search Under State Law by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) of Massachusetts announced that continuous, long-term pole camera surveillance targeting a residence is a search under article 14 of the …
Article • December 15, 2020 • from CLN January, 2021
Who Pays for Police Surveillance? by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins There is growing concern across society about the emergence of a surveillance state. The capacity of police to monitor phones, email, and other communication has been highlighted in recent incidents, but the most ubiquitous and invasive form of surveillance …
Article • December 3, 2020
How to Spot Surveillance at Protests by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (“EFF”) Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass has posted a 25-minute video titled “How To Observe Police Surveillance at Protests.” In it, Maass explains the visible and non-visible tools deployed against protesters. First and foremost, …
Article • December 1, 2020
EFF Compiles Data on Surveillance Operations on Citizens Across the Nation by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) released a new report in November 2020 on the variety of ways that law enforcement agencies spy on the general public. Called Real-Time Crime Centers (“RTCC”), police and …
Article • November 26, 2020
Study Finds Combination of Experts and Algorithms are Better at Recognizing Faces by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell I have to admit, I would be the worst witness in court, because it seems I can’t recall a face I’ve seen even a hundred times. However, there are some people who …
Article • November 15, 2020 • from CLN December, 2020
Federal Judges Beginning to Reject Geofence Warrants by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Geofence warrants have become a common way for law enforcement to link a crime to a suspect using data gathered from smartphones. However, this process is legally dubious, and two federal judges from the district court in …
Article • November 15, 2020 • from CLN December, 2020
Proliferation of Police Drones Feeds Big Brother’s Need for Big Data by Anthony Accurso   by Anthony Accurso A recent article by Nick Mottern on Truthout.org highlights the growing trend of big data collection made possible by tech in policing, specifically the proliferation of drones with cameras. Julie Weiner was …
Article • October 15, 2020 • from CLN November, 2020
Government Treats Protesting Cities as Enemies of the State by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Government watchdog organizations are reporting that multiple government agencies employed high-tech surveillance aircraft over cities with demonstrations over the police killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. On June 2, thousands of protestors took to the …
Article • October 15, 2020 • from CLN November, 2020
Door Bells and Funeral Bells by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Ring is Amazon’s “smart” doorbell camera company that allows video cameras within users’ doorbells to surveil their porches, sidewalks, yards, and even the streets next to their homes. But Ring has also partnered with some law enforcement agencies, enabling …
Article • September 30, 2020
Three New Tools for Identifying Who’s Watching You by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell With the countless ways the government can collect data on you, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) has introduced three new tools to help you identify what technologies are being used by government agencies to watch you. …
Article • September 15, 2020 • from CLN October, 2020
Minnesota Cops Use Contact Tracing to Track Protestor Networks by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Minnesota officials have used a variety of digital surveillance tools to track protestors, but now they openly admit to using contact-tracing apps to do so. According to Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington, officials in …
Article • August 26, 2020
Hackers Expose Hundreds of Thousands of Documents Containing Subscriber Info Google Turned Over to Law Enforcement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Hackers dug into servers of a hosting company in Texas used by law enforcement and found that hundreds of thousands of documents from more than 200 agencies contained …
Article • August 19, 2020
EFF Releases Database that Tracks Law Enforcement’s Use of High Tech Surveillance Gear by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) partnered with Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno (“RSJ”), to release for use by journalists, academics, and the general public a database containing …
Problems With Predictive Policing by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Phillip K. Dick made the concept of “pre-crime” famous in his novel Minority Report, which described a future where people with “pre-cognitive” abilities could predict a crime and those predictions were used to arrest and convict “offenders.” Without the luxury …
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