Simon Boazman & Jeremy Young report: Long Beach, Southern California – Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has discovered that a self-deleting messaging app called Tiger Text has been adopted by at least one US police department, which may have used it to share sensitive and potentially incriminating information that they wouldn’t want to be disclosed to…
Category: Govt
Councils use 377,000 people’s data in efforts to predict child abuse
Niamh McIntyre and David Pegg report: Vast quantities of data on hundreds of thousands of people is being used to construct computer models in an effort to predict child abuse and intervene before it can happen, the Guardian has learned. Amid mounting financial pressure, local councils are developing “predictive analytics” systems to algorithmically identify families…
Congress Is Poised to Give Trump Administration Powerful New Spying Powers
Neema Singh Guliani writes: The Trump administration wants more spying power — and Congress appears poised to give it to them. Touting national security to justify spying powers that jeopardize our constitutional rights is a strategy that we have seen before. It happened with the Patriot Act after 9/11, and members of Congress and government…
In Privacy Victory, ICE Backs Down from Voter Data Demand
From EPIC.org: ICE has reversed position and is no longer seeking the immediate release of over 18 million voting records from North Carolina. Citing administrative difficulties and the unprecedented scope of the subpoena, ICE agreed to limit its demand to preserve voter privacy and will allow state officials to respond after the midterm elections in January 2019. The demand…