law enforcement

Four NYPD police SUVs are parked in a row on a city street beside a building with tall columns and glass doors. A hanging flower basket is visible, and trees line the background near another building. The scene is calm, with no people present.

November 17, 2020

How the NYPD gets people’s personal data with no oversight

The NYPD has used tens of thousands of questionable subpoenas over the last decade to intimidate private companies into handing […]

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November 12, 2020

Police stream live video from Ring doorbells using third-party tech

A handful of police departments across the US are using software that lets them register the locations of people’s home […]

November 9, 2020

Police Are Tapping Into Ring Cameras to Expand Surveillance Network In Mississippi

The police department in Jackson, Mississippi is partnering with two companies to stream surveillance footage from Ring cameras in a […]

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November 7, 2020

Border officer provides device passwords to police

A Canadian border officer who dealt with Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver’s airport in the hours before her arrest said he […]

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October 29, 2020

Game Trains Police To Get Facebook Data Fast

Many investigators don’t know how to request help from the likes of Facebook, Apple and Google at speed when an […]

October 23, 2020

The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone

At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies have tools to get into encrypted smartphones, according to new research, and they are […]

October 23, 2020

Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police

Mr. Howell is a lifelong protester and self-taught coder. He had begun researching how to build a facial recognition product […]

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October 21, 2020

UK police get access to people told to self-isolate

People who have been told to self-isolate through NHS test and trace could have their contact details passed to police, […]

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October 21, 2020

The Netherlands Is Becoming a Predictive Policing Hot Spot

A report released late last month by Amnesty International revealed that Dutch law enforcement have been engaged in a number of […]

October 19, 2020

US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

An unsealed warrant in a case involving alleged pedophile R&B star R. Kelly has shown how the Feds can get […]

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September 18, 2020

Japan’s police introduce facial recognition system in criminal probes

About 10 million facial images are currently stored in the agency’s database, including those of suspects referred to prosecutors who […]

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