Six leading robotics firms promised not to add weapons to their general use technology, encouraged others to do the same, and said they would oppose anyone who did so.
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While electronic monitoring is meant to be an alternative to incarceration, an ACLU report says the system relies on excessive surveillance and abuse and is subject to racial bias. In Detroit, for example, Black people are twice as likely as whites to be under electronic monitoring.
The group had gotten into the company’s WordPress program and found keys to functions, including the Apple News programming interface.
Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts without parameters on time or a warrant.
Surveillance experts worry that the proposal will give the government a license to violate people’s civil liberties.
Department of Justice officials accused the Revolutionary Guard Corps of ignoring the malicious activity, enabling it to happen repeatedly.
Many residents expressed concerns about the potential for privacy and civil rights violations, despite promised bans on harassment, intimidation and random surveillance.
Security researchers claim that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a law that makes it illegal to breach digital security measures in order to access copyrighted works like music, movies, and software is unconstitutional and are challenging it in court.
Facial recognition software was supposed to be a step above eyewitness identification, but both methods have raised legitimate doubts about their reliability, writes Valena Beety, a law professor at Arizona State University.
Local law enforcement agencies in North and South Carolina have been utilizing “Fog Reveal,” a little-known smartphone monitoring program that allows them to track movements of people without their knowledge or consent.