Surveillance

Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a Warrant, Says Court

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Law enforcement in Kansas recorded the front of a man’s home for 68 days straight, 15 hours a day, and obtained evidence to prove him guilty on 16 charges. The officers did not have a search warrant, using a camera on a pole positioned across the street to capture Bruce Hay’s home. A federal court … Read more

The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge

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Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an AI revolution was brewing inside the US tech industry. The NSA, sometimes jokingly said to stand for No Such Agency, has long hired top math and computer science talent. Its technical leaders have been early … Read more

Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras

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Airbnb will soon ban hosts from watching their guests with indoor security cameras, as the company is reversing course on its surveillance policies. As of April 30, hosts around the world must remove indoor cameras and disclose other outdoor monitoring tech to guests before they book. Airbnb previously allowed hosts to install security cameras in … Read more

5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

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San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department from using face recognition. About two dozen other US cities have since followed suit. But on Tuesday San Francisco voters appeared to turn against the idea of restricting police technology, backing a ballot proposition that … Read more

RCMP slammed for private surveillance use to trawl social media, “darknet” – National

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The RCMP has been quietly using private surveillance companies to trawl through social media accounts and “publicly available” information on the internet since at least 2015, a new report by Canada’s privacy watchdog reveals. And the national police force is rejecting the federal privacy commissioner’s recommendations on making their use of “third-party” surveillance vendors more … Read more

UK Police Use Driver License Photo In Facial Recognition Search

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A recent change to a single clause in a UK criminal justice law will soon allow police or the National Crime Agency to run facial recognition searches on a database of 50 million driver’s license holders in the country, in addition to social media images and surveillance images. UK officers have recently taken to using … Read more