From the good folks at EPIC.org: Documents obtained by Motherboard show that a key vendor of school-based facial recognition tools lied to school officials about the accuracy rate and racial bias of its surveillance product. The records reveal that SN Technologies’ AEGIS system misidentifies black students at alarmingly high rates and mistakes objects like broom handles for guns. Despite…
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ACLU Wants the Goods on Secret Data Deal Used to Track Immigrants
Josh Russell reports: Demanding to see the paper trail, the ACLU complained in federal court Wednesday that the Trump administration is staying mum about its efforts to track immigrants’ movements using cellphone location data. “While it has been widely reported that defendant agencies are acquiring this highly sensitive data without warrants, little is known about how they…
Law enforcement is using location tracking on mobile devices to identify suspects, but is it unconstitutional?
Wendy Davis writes: On May 20, 2019, a man wearing sunglasses, jeans and a reflective vest entered the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian, Virginia, brandished a gun and demanded cash. He made off with $195,000. Four months later, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 24-year-old Okello Chatrie for the robbery. Authorities arrested Chatrie after…
CBP proposes to require mug shots of all non-US citizen travelers
From Papers, Please! Last December we called attention to plans by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to require mug shots of all travelers entering or leaving the US by air or sea, including US citizens. Within days, CBP issued a press release falsely accusing us of incorrectly reporting the official CBP notice of its plans, and saying that it…