As of February 2020, 88 law enforcement and government-affiliated agencies in 24 countries outside the United States have tried to use controversial facial recognition technology Clearview AI, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation.
In a government accountability report about facial recognition, five federal agencies said they didn't use Clearview AI. Data reviewed by BuzzFeed News suggests they should have.
“Stingrays” mimic cellphone towers to intercept phone calls and texts. This is the first law that would regulate their use.
The home surveillance camera company owned by Amazon has also partnered with more than 1,800 police departments.
Fake vaccine card merchants are rampant on Telegram. Meanwhile, fake vaccine card listings continue to fall between the cracks on Amazon, despite a ban on them.
“Two years for a coup, not bad,” one Facebook employee wrote sarcastically in an internal post.
"The problem is cops have all the power and they're killing people every fucking day. I don't care that they're getting sent to jail now. They shouldn't be killing people."
“Mentally, I'm not at my best, but I'm just trying to move around physically because that's what I can give right now.”
“How are we supposed to live and grow up in this place knowing that next time that might be me on the floor?”
Police did not release the victim’s name, but Katie Wright identified him as her son, Daunte Wright. The shooting led hundreds of people to protest — and police to fire tear gas.
Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the US, and schools are paying big money for its services. Hundreds of company documents unveil a sprawling surveillance industrial complex that targets kids who can’t opt out.
Newly revealed documents show how Los Angeles police were trained to use the flagship product of the most secretive company in law enforcement.
Local police are “looking into concerns” around the incident.
A patent unveiled on Thursday describes several potential uses for Clearview AI, such as creating networks for people in industries like real estate or retail to “share headshots of high-risk individuals.”
Hypothyroidism is easily treatable in almost everyone who has it. But social media is rife with bogus cures.
You may be searching for your school, but you'll see photos of potatoes, erotic fan art, and even ALF.
“This gives a potential attacker access to view cameras in somebody’s home — that’s a real serious potential invasion of privacy right there.”
PredPol is one of the oldest and most controversial predictive policing companies. The LAPD just said it will stop using it because of the coronavirus pandemic.
As protesters demonstrate in Minneapolis in response to George Floyd's death, law enforcement agencies have access to a host of surveillance tools that could make it easier to target and find them.
Ghost boxes in Zillow's maps of cities like Chicago and Cincinnati appear to mark the homes bulldozed to build freeways — and the neighborhoods that were displaced in the process.