The Los Angeles Police Commission unanimously approved oversight measures for the use of a facial recognition tool that civil rights groups say is riddled with racial bias and doesn’t enhance police work.
Browsing: Technology
“This is a very stupid problem to have,” a Hartford Police Department official said last month, on a day when five stolen cars were recovered and 12 people were arrested.
A New Jersey man has sued for a wrongful arrest and emotional distress after he spent a week in jail as a result of a faulty identification.
Conspiracy theories about 5G technology have proliferated online this year, with people trading unfounded claims that the relatively new system for mobile communication is spreading the coronavirus.
Dozens of people who say they were subjected to death threats, racial slurs, and blackmail after in-home Ring smart cameras were hacked are suing the company over “horrific” invasions of privacy.
The American Civil Liberties Union complained in federal court Wednesday that the Trump administration is staying mum about its efforts to track immigrants’ movements using cellphone location data.
Several homeland security agencies are buying access to a product from a commercial broker with location information on millions of U.S. mobile devices, drawn from games, weather apps and other common mobile applications.
When a Georgia police officer ran a license plate check for a friend who paid him for the favor, he was convicted of a felony, setting the stage for a hotly debated Supreme Court case about the sweep of federal law on computer hacking.
The Los Angeles Police Department barred officers and detectives from using outside facial recognition platforms in their investigations after uncovering detectives who used a powerful commercial software platform known as Clearview AI without permission. The order was prompted by a BuzzFeed News inquiry.
A 2-1 federal appeals court panel said the air surveillance is constitutional because it is less invasive than street surveillance cameras and its built-in limitations “mean that it only enables the short-term tracking of public movements.”