Dave Maass and Jennifer Pinsof write: California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a legal interpretation and guidance for law enforcement agencies around the state that confirms what privacy advocates have been saying for years: It is against the law for police to share data collected from license plate readers with out-of-state or federal agencies. This is…
Category: Surveillance
Why your data might already be on a Europol list
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…
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…