The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to approve an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition software by its police department and other city agencies
Google has appealed to the one-stop-shop mechanism provided for in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which, in its view, requires it to report on data protection matters only to the corresponding authority in the country in which it is based, namely Ireland.
The ruling says customs officials can rummage through highly personal information even absent any reason to think their owner did something wrong.
Civil liberties groups have criticized the use of these dragnet search warrants.
Robotic police officers are a rare novelty right now, but as law enforcement agencies across the world buy them, they’re quickly becoming normalized.
More than a dozen cities have passed facial recognition bans in the past couple of years, but police say there are loopholes.
DOJ files charges against alleged rioter after the FBI raided his Facebook account, including private messages and an IP address that plotted his approximate locations.
New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.
A German-led police sting has taken down the “world’s largest” darknet marketplace.
A government watchdog said the data was scooped up “in the course of the lawful collection of other data.”
Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement.
Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests. They’ve become crucial tools for law enforcement, while users often are unaware.