David Shepardson reports: The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google resolving a dispute with the search engine giant over the loss of data responsive to a 2016 search warrant. The government said it was a “first-of-its-kind resolution” that would result in Google reforming “its legal process compliance…
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What is Fog Reveal? A legal scholar explains the app some police forces are using to track people without a warrant
Anne Toomey McKenna writes: Government agencies and private security companies in the U.S. have found a cost-effective way to engage in warrantless surveillance of individuals, groups and places: a pay-for-access web tool called Fog Reveal. The tool enables law enforcement officers to see “patterns of life” – where and when people work and live, with whom…
California sheriff’s office stops Black drivers five times more often than white people, data shows
Sam Levin reports: Black drivers in California’s capital are nearly five times more likely than white motorists to get pulled over by sheriffs for traffic violations, according to a new report on racial profiling across the state. Records from the county sheriff’s departments of Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and Riverside show that Black Californians were disproportionately stopped…
Commentary: Keep facial recognition out of New York schools
Mahima Arya and Nina Loshkajian write: In 2020, New York became a national civil rights leader, the first state in the country to ban facial recognition in schools. But more than two years later, state officials are examining whether to reverse course and give a passing grade to this failing technology. Wasting money on biased…