Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics social media Article 525 words 17 votes
Lego requests California police department stop using their toy heads to cover suspect mugshots on social media social media Article 267 words 40 votes
The FBI’s new tactic: Catching American suspects with push alerts google apple Article 1646 words, published Feb 29 2024 32 votes
US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech privacy Link 11 votes
Online police patrol the internet in Denmark, with the aim of making it a safer place for both children and adults internet social media Video 2:11 6 votes
Facebook helped arrest a 17-year-old for having an abortion facebook social media privacy Link 13 votes
Amazon shared Ring security camera and video doorbell footage with police without a warrant amazon privacy security.home Article 524 words 31 votes
Crime prediction software promised to be free of biases. New data shows it perpetuates them. Article 4775 words, published Dec 2 2021 15 votes
A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods Article 3085 words, published Oct 22 2021 10 votes
Illinois officer claims Sheriff's office told him to play copyrighted music to shut down citizens' recordings Article 22 votes
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police security privacy Article 4002 words 14 votes
Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice Article 5235 words 10 votes
Australian Criminal Intelligence Agency looking to expand it's intelligence gathering powers by claiming that criminals use encrypted platforms 'almost exclusively' privacy Link 19 votes
Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments privacy Article 5855 words 9 votes
Pasco County’s Sheriff must end its targeted child harassment program privacy Article 1122 words 11 votes
Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools privacy google Article 1889 words 6 votes
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco? security Article 2853 words 10 votes
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals privacy Article 2927 words 20 votes
US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals privacy Article 17 votes
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. privacy google Article 1146 words 18 votes
Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case Article 4078 words 10 votes
Swedish police can use spyware to hunt criminal gangs – police to use the latest technology to access everyday encrypted apps used by criminals Link 8 votes
Swedish police want to introduce facial recognition technology to fight crime Article 217 words 3 votes
San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes Article 631 words 11 votes
San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology privacy Article 304 words 25 votes
New South Wales police and crime agencies are preparing to use a new national facial recognition system privacy Article 748 words 3 votes
It started as an online gaming prank. Then it turned deadly - the story of the "swatting" that killed Andrew Finch Article 7828 words 18 votes
The right to bear arms (and say shocking stuff on Facebook) social media facebook Article 6618 words 8 votes
A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data microsoft privacy Article 618 words 7 votes
Tens of thousands of Australians who have given DNA samples to sites such as Ancestry.com could have their genetic data examined by police without their knowledge privacy Article 653 words 12 votes
In major privacy win, US Supreme Court rules police need warrant to track your cellphone privacy Article 1036 words 40 votes
Like it or not, camera-equipped police drones will soon patrol the skies privacy Article 469 words 11 votes
How a hacker proved cops used a secret government phone tracker to find him privacy Article 4015 words 14 votes