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Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Chicago PD Creating Files, Background Checks on Citizens Who Speak at Police Disciplinary Meetings by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A public records request by the Chicago Tribune found that the Chicago Police Department has been doing background checks and creating files on citizens who speak at weekly meetings of …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Tracking Phones: Google as a Dragnet for the Police by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The Google Sensorvault database has been used by law enforcement agencies on multiple occasions to obtain what are being called “geofence” warrants, which specify an area and period of time and require Google to provide …
Article • August 20, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
NYU Study Shows ‘Predictive Policing Systems’ Promote Bad Data, Bad Policing by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A New York University study shows that “predictive policing” does nothing to prevent crime but actually increases bad policing in cities already struggling with corrupt police forces. This means that in at least …
Article • August 19, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Virtual Imprisonment as Big Brother Interactively Listens From Cradle to School to Prison to Parole to Grave by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In today’s world of technological marvels, electronic monitoring has far surpassed being useful merely to virtually imprison pretrial releasees and parolees. Nanotechnology has enabled parents to keep …
Article • January 19, 2019 • from CLN February, 2019
Investigation and Arrest of Mail Bomb Suspect Rips Cover Off Postal Surveillance by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The recent investigation and arrest of the suspect in the 2018 mail bomb incidents targeting Democratic and liberal figures have focused attention on a virtually unknown federal government surveillance program that has …
Article • January 18, 2019 • from CLN February, 2019
Public Support for Militarized Policing Ebbs, Fails to Improve Safety by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The 1970s television show S.W.A.T., along with its resurrection in the movie and TV show by the same name, portrayed police officers in Special Weapons and Tactics (“SWAT”) units as top cops doing a …
Article • December 30, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Homeland Security One Step Closer to Becoming Big Brother Incarnate by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has taken a giant leap toward achieving its apparent goal of knowing everything about everyone: the development and launch of the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (“HART”) …
Article • December 30, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Global Voice Recognition Database Alarms Privacy Groups by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Human rights watchdog organizations are alarmed over the new Speaker Identification Integrated Project (“SiiP”), a voice biometric database utilized by Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, for law enforcement purposes. Created by Verint, a multinational biometrics company, …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Orlando Police Continue to Test Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Despite Privacy Concerns by The Orlando Police Department in Florida announced that it will continue to test facial recognition software developed by Amazon, despite concerns of abuse by police—and privacy issues. Amazon’s facial recognition program, called Rekognition, was designed to allow …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Snarky Facebook Post Not True Threat; Officers Denied Qualified Immunity by David Reutter by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to police officers who arrested a man for a snarky Facebook post without conducting even a minimal investigation. James …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from CLN November, 2018
Judge orders Tacoma to pay fines, attorney fees over stingray records by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A Pierce County judge hit the City of Tacoma, Washington, with nearly $300,000 in fines and fees for violating the state’s Public Records Act (“PRA”), when it failed to turn over records on …
Article • November 1, 2018 • from CLN November, 2018
Civil Libertarians Concerned About Undisclosed FBI Research into Tattoo Recognition Technology by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Yet another example of how the judicial and legislative branches are falling behind the curve in protecting American citizens from undisclosed forms of surveillance and classification was revealed in a report by the …
Article • October 24, 2018 • from CLN November, 2018
Documents Reveal How Law Enforcement Partners with Private Companies to Surveil Schools by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Unbeknownst to college students across the country, their school may be surveilling their social media activity. What may be even more surprising to learn is that even individuals who have no affiliation …
Article • September 20, 2018 • from CLN October, 2018
The Broad Reach of Carpenter v. United States by Paul Ohm "The Broad Reach of Carpenter v. United States" by Paul Ohm was originally published June 27, 2018, on Just Security Carpenter v. United States is an inflection point in the history of the Fourth Amendment. From now on, we’ll be …
Article • August 20, 2018 • from CLN September, 2018
SCOTUS Issues Landmark Fourth Amendment and Digital Privacy Opinion in Carpenter by As modern day technology continues to test the limits of many long-held constitutional precepts, the question before the Court in this case was whether the Government conducts a “search” under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical cell …
Article • August 15, 2018 • from CLN September, 2018
Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They? by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead, Commentary, The Rutherford Institute After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell …
Article • July 21, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Biased Facial Recognition Systems Are Coming to a Law Enforcement Agency Near You by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) has revealed some disturbing facts about facial recognition systems, which are becoming very popular law enforcement investigative tools. According to the February …
Article • July 21, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead, Commentary, The Rutherford Institute “We’re run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt …
Article • July 20, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Is FBI Using Classified Tools for Everyday Investigations? by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The website Techdirt.com reported on a Department of Justice Inspector General’s report looking into how the FBI uses classified tools meant for national security investigations in run-of-the-mill cases. It seems that government-developed software hacks, malware, and …
Article • July 20, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead, Commentary, The Rutherford Institute What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and …
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