Olivia Solon reports: Nick Opiyo had just ordered lunch in a Kampala restaurant on the last working day before Christmas when armed, uniformed security forces swarmed his table, handcuffed him, covered his head with a sack he says smelled of blood, and bundled him into an unmarked van. His laptop, phone, documents and car keys…
Category: Surveillance
The Alaska Supreme Court Takes Aerial Surveillance’s Threat to Privacy Seriously, Other Courts Should Too
Hannah Zhao writes: In March, the Alaska Supreme Court held in State v. McKelvey that the Alaska Constitution required law enforcement to obtain a warrant before photographing a private backyard from an aircraft. In this case, the police took photographs of Mr. McKelvey’s property, including the constitutionally protected curtilage area, from a small aircraft using a zoom…
EU: Facial recognition at airports: individuals should have maximum control over biometric data
From the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), May 24: Brussels, 24 May – During its latest plenary, the EDPB adopted an Opinion on the use of facial recognition technologies by airport operators and airline companies to streamline the passenger flow at airports*. This Article 64(2) Opinion, following a request from the French Data Protection Authority, addresses…
AI Relies On Mass Surveillance, Warns Signal Boss
Daxia Rojas reports: The AI tools that crunch numbers, generate text and videos and find patterns in data rely on mass surveillance and exercise concerning control over our lives, the boss of encrypted messaging app Signal told AFP on Thursday. Pushing back against the unquestioning enthusiasm at VivaTech in Paris, Europe’s top startup conference where…