Suzanne Smalley reports: Microsoft, Google and several other major tech firms on Monday filed a legal brief supporting an El Salvadoran journalist whose staff was targeted with powerful mobile spyware, arguing he should be allowed to sue the software developer in U.S. court. In March, a California federal judge dismissed the lawsuit brought by Carios Dada and…
Category: Surveillance
Opting out of facial recognition at airports
Because a lot of people are stuck at airports today due to a CrowdStrike glitch affecting software, this might be a good time to talk about opting out of facial recognition at airports. Ed Hasbrouck recently wrote: Next week the Algorithmic Justice League will be launching an awareness and sousveillance campaign focused on the use of facial recognition in…
Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition Technology
Tori Noble writes: In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology. Robert Williams, a Black resident of a Detroit suburb, filed suit against the Detroit Police Department…
Investigators Raced to Crack into Phone Used by Trump Rally Gunman
Devlin Barrett and Emily Davies of The Washington Post report: New, faster phone-cracking technology was used to access the phone of the Trump rally gunman, according to people familiar with the investigation who described the ongoing race to find any clues to the 20-year-old’s motive for trying to kill the former president. Officials said Monday…