EDRI writes: You don’t have to be a civil rights defender or even an opposition voice to end up on a police list. You don’t even have to commit a crime. And yet in today’s EU, innocent people are being swept up in a police digital dragnet that risks eroding the very basis of democracy. Police forces…
Category: Surveillance
Greek data watchdog to rule on AI systems in refugee camps
Lydia Emmanouilidou reports: Greece’s data protection watchdog is set to issue a long-awaited decision on the legality of controversial high-tech surveillance and security systems deployed in the country’s refugee camps. The Greek Data Protection Authority’s (DPA) decision, expected by the end of the year, concerns in part a new multimillion-euro Artificial Intelligence Behavioural Analytics security system, which…
What Can We Learn From Recent Wiretapping Lawsuits?
Fox Rothschild LLP & Odia Kagan write: Here is what we can learn from class action lawsuits filed in the last few days under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, and other wiretapping-like causes of action. If you are going to record calls or chats, you…
NY Wins Power to Search DNA Bank for Criminals’ Relatives
Beth Wang reports: New York can expand the use of a DNA database to blood relatives of people who have previously been convicted of a crime after the state’s top justices narrowly overturned a lower court’s ban on the practice. Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote the opinion for the four-judge majority, saying the state did have the…