Radhamely De Leon reports: Six federal agencies including the FBI have reported using facial recognition technology on images from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report shows that many of the agencies reported using the controversial technology for…
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Microsoft says a third of its government data requests have secrecy orders
Zack Whittaker reports: Microsoft’s customer security chief says as many as one-third of all government demands that the company receives for customer data are issued with secrecy clauses that prevents it from disclosing the search to the subject of the warrant. The figure was disclosed in testimony by Microsoft’s Tom Burt ahead of a House…
GAO Finds Widespread Use of Facial Recognition Without Adequate Privacy Protections
From EPIC.org: In a report, the Government Accountability Office found that 13 federal law enforcement agencies are unable to track employees use of facial recognition services and reported that 20 agencies use some form of facial recognition. Eight agencies own systems while 17 agencies used a system outside the agency in the last two years. The…
Wisconsin Supreme Court Refuses to Limit Warrantless Forensic Searches of Cell Phones
From EPIC.org: The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an opinion in Wisconsin v. Burch finding that cell phone data downloaded with a forensic device can be used in a subsequent, unrelated investigation and trial regardless of whether the data was initially obtained without a warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment. A police department used a forensic device to download the entire…