Theodore F. Claypoole of Womble Bond Dickinson writes: I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest technology to do their jobs well. If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use it. If a stingray can capture cell phone conversation, with appropriate procedural limitation, an officer…
Category: Govt
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…
Data-Informed Predictive Policing Was Heralded As Less Biased. Is It?
Annie Gilbertson writes that early claims about how predictive policing would solve some of society’s problems with racism have not materialized. To the contrary, they may be making things worse. …. Early versions of data-driven policing were used in the 1990s, but it has grown more popular and the technology more sophisticated over the last…
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. …