Jennifer Lynch and Nathaniel Sobel write: Two federal magistrate judges in three separate opinions have ruled that a geofence warrant violates the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause and particularity requirements. Two of these rulings, from the federal district court in Chicago, were recently unsealed and provide a detailed constitutional analysis that closely aligns with arguments EFF and others have been making against geofence warrants…
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Only 17 out of 54 African states have data privacy laws
Admire Moyo reports: African countries are lagging in enacting data protection laws, leaving citizens vulnerable to cyber attacks. That was the word from Susi du Preez, an independent security expert, speaking yesterday during the ITWeb Security Summit 2020, which was hosted virtually. Comparing the pros and cons of data protection and privacy legislation and the need for…
Customs and Border Protection Paid $476,000 to a Location Data Firm in New Deal
Joseph Cox reports: Earlier this month U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) paid nearly half a million dollars to a company that sells a product based on location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones, according to public procurement records reviewed by Motherboard. The news highlights how law enforcement agencies continue to buy…
AI Standards Update: NIST Solicits Comments on the Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Certain Other Developments
James Yoon, Sam Jungyun Choi and Lee Tiedrich of Covington & Burling write: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) is seeking comments on the first draft of the Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NISTIR 8312), a white paper that seeks to define the principles that capture the fundamental properties of explainable AI systems. …