The technology appears unlikely to constrain the immigration agencies; much more sweeping reforms are needed

Return of the zombie idea that software vulnerabilities can be reserved for good actors

Utah has given its CPO a meaningful role — and he has thoughts on how other states should follow

And other takeaways from watching three hours of aerial police videos

Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunsho...

And are putting in place rules that allow them to do so

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Surveillance Boosters Tout the Benefits of Deterrence, But There’s a Big Problem With That

We’ve already seen what that looks like in places like Memphis; New “Model Cities Initiative” would spread it to other cities

Outcome of case could severely limit user control and the rights of researchers and journalists on the Web

Researchers asked experienced police supervisors to rate police reports, some of which were written by humans and some by AI

City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.

A flurry of Flock contract changes disempower customers

Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals

How culpable is the company for the constitutional and human rights violations of the deportation drive?

Despite talk of "drones for good" from boosters, we're seeing a new, darker law enforcement “use case” for the technology

Think twice about sending video from your home to companies, and possibly police and hackers

Baffling order is likely a move to block drone photography of DHS operations in violation of First Amendment

Are Wegmans and other retailers participating in the Trump war on immigrants?

CEO attacks motives of people who care about privacy, says they are trying to “normalize lawlessness” and “let murderers go free”

States That Adopt Digital Driver’s Licenses Need to Rethink How IDs are Revoked

A Privacy Failure Waiting to Happen

“The pilots were well aware of which lever to pull. It was ‘human error’ that caused the mistake. But laying the blame on the pilots wasn’t ever going to solve the problem.”

Axon’s “Policy Chat” product seeks to give officers guidance on department policies and procedures

We’re filing a FOIA to find out how deep the problem goes

AP report reveals how the agency uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers

Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition

A digital ID system involves value-laden choices that should be made through explicit political discussion and debate

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Two trends threaten the creation of an online identity infrastructure that would transform the internet

If an officer had just left the word "abortion" out of an audit log, a vital national story would never have come to light

Invading privacy as well as "barking up the wrong tree"

Deploying AI in Inappropriate Ways Can and Does Get People Hurt

The company’s default agreement with police departments grants the company license to share people’s license plate data

State regulation of who may scan barcodes from driver’s licenses and what scanners can do with the data point the way toward vital protections against abuses of digital IDs

We can’t let government block drone photography of newsworthy events simply by claiming a need to fly their own aircraft in an area or claiming the existence of vague “security threats”

The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog

The Trump Administration's immigration abuses are human rights violations

The coming battles over being identified versus not being identified

Those hurt the most are those who can least afford it

Will Language Models Foster Freedom or Authoritarianism? (part 4 in a series)

Edging toward police drone dystopias

Many assume that LLMs will always be provided by big tech companies through the cloud, but is that true? (LLMs and power series part 3)

Policymakers are beginning to recognize that the boundaries between local surveillance and the Trump Administration are hard to maintain