Sam Dorman reports: A New York county is threatening to involuntarily quarantine residents who either may have come into contact with a person with COVID-19 or arrived in one of the states of concern listed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The warning came as part of a longer letter obtained by Fox News and confirmed Wednesday by the Chemung County…
Category: U.S.
The Supreme Court’s Next Big Free Speech Showdown
Damon Root reports: In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), the U.S. Supreme Court forbade public school officials from punishing students for exercising their First Amendment rights on school grounds unless the speech at issue “would materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline and in the operation of the school.” In…
How the LAPD and Palantir use data to justify racist policing
Mara Hvistendahl reports: The killing of George Floyd last May sparked renewed scrutiny of data-driven policing. As protests raged around the world, 1,400 researchers signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to stop collaborating with police on algorithms, and cities like Santa Cruz, New Orleans, and Oakland variously banned predictive policing, facial recognition, and voice recognition. But elsewhere, police chiefs worked to…
Police Say They Can Use Facial Recognition, Despite Bans
Alfred Ng reports: Mere hours after supporters of former president Donald Trump forced their way into the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, sleuths, both amateur and professional, took up the task of combing through the voluminous videos and photos on social media to identify rioters. Facial recognition technology—long reviled by police reform advocates as inaccurate…