NYPD Refuses to Disclose Information About Its Face Recognition Program, So Privacy Researchers Are Suing
The NYPD has used face recognition since at least 2011 but refuses to provide any information about how the technology is used.
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Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos "to Anticipate Criminal Activity"
Taser is collecting an unprecedented video archive of law enforcement encounters — and it wants to use AI and “deep learning” to predict criminal behavior.
Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops’ Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
Privacy advocates are concerned about linking body cameras, sold to taxpayers as a tool for police accountability, with powerful technology to scan faces.
The FBI Is Building a National Watchlist That Gives Companies Real-Time Updates on Employees
Will the FBI’s Rap Back service notify your boss that you got arrested protesting the inauguration?
Study: Face Recognition Systems Threaten the Privacy of Millions
A new report finds the use of face recognition systems by U.S. law enforcement is routine and entirely without oversight.
U.K.’s Mass Surveillance Databases Were Unlawful for 17 Years, Court Rules
A special tribunal has found that British spy agencies maintained huge secret databases of people’s private data without adequate safeguards between 1998 and 2015.
How a Facial Recognition Mismatch Can Ruin Your Life
FBI facial recognition experts identified Steve Talley as a bank robber. They were wrong.