Connor Jones reports: A new UK law, which has just received royal assent, will see anyone found to have clicked on terrorist propaganda handed a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. The new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 which gives UK law enforcement greater powers to investigate suspected hostile activity, also updates…
Category: Govt
How All-Knowing Smartphones Could Become the Pentagon’s Employee Access Cards
Aaron Boyd reports: A New York-based company and the Defense Department have created an artificial intelligence algorithm to be embedded in smartphones that knows the device owner so well it can tell its user by the way they talk, type and even walk. TWOSENSE.AI has been working with the department to build a software-as-a-service product…
Safe Sharing Sites
Lisa M. Austin and David Lie have an article in a forthcoming issue of N.Y.U. L. Rev. Here is the abstract: In this paper we argue that data-sharing is an activity that sits at the crossroads of privacy concerns and the broader challenges of data governance surrounding access and use. Using the Sidewalk Toronto “smart…
The Carpenter Chronicle: A Near Perfect Surveillance
Susan Freiwald and Stephen W. Smith have an article in Harvard Law Review. Here is the abstract: For well over a quarter century, law enforcement has surreptitiously converted the personal cell phone into a tracking device, capable of compiling a comprehensive chronicle of the user’s movements over an extended period of time. With the 2018 Carpenter v. United…