Revelation sparks concern among MPs and watchdogs over implications for data protection and relationship between the citizen and the state Mark Wilding and Charles Hymas report: Police forces have been secretly conducting hundreds of facial recognition searches using the UK’s database of 46 million British passport holders, it can be revealed. Chris Philp, the policing minister, raised…
Category: Surveillance
Operation Find Them All: Cellebrite Unites Philanthropic Pioneers to Accelerate Investigations of Crimes Against Children
From Cellebrite DI Ltd: TYSONS CORNER, Va. and PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Jan. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cellebrite DI Ltd. (Nasdaq: CLBT), a global leader in premier Digital Investigative solutions for the public and private sectors, is honored to announce a powerful collaboration aimed at reducing crimes against children and online child exploitation. This new…
Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Dhruv Mehrotra writes: In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one that might help them finally get a lead on the murder of Maria Jane Weidhofer. Officers had found Weidhofer, dead and sexually assaulted, at Berkeley, California’s Tilden Regional Park in 1990. Nearly…
France fines Amazon €32 million over employee surveillance
From News Wires: France’s data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon’s French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system to keep track of staff performance. Amazon France Logistique monitored the work of employees in particular through data from scanners used by the staff to process packages, according to the…