Texas State Police Acquire Controversial AI Surveillance Tool
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial...
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Aug 212 min
Lawsuit Accuses Oregon Police Of Illegally Monitoring Progressive Activists
The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon is suing the city of Medford, saying its police department has been unlawfully monitoring...
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Crime and Justice News
May 292 min
Atlanta Police Ramp Up Surveillance Of Cop City Opponents
Atlanta police have been carrying out around-the-clock surveillance in several neighborhoods for months, on people and houses linked to...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 151 min
FISA Reauthorization Delayed Amid Bipartisan Opposition
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday pulled back on plans to reauthorize one of America's most hotly debated domestic...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 292 min
Schools Using Surveillance To Catch Students Vaping
When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn't realize how much could be taken from her. The rest of her high...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 242 min
False Facial Recognition Match At Macy's Led To Jail Assault
A man was sexually assaulted in jail after being falsely accused of armed robbery due to a faulty facial recognition match, his attorneys...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 172 min
Police Are Using More Home Camera Footage As Evidence
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., are among major cities slated to launch a Real-Time Crime Center in the coming months, billed as a kind...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 20, 20231 min
New Mexico Leaders Seek to Expand Surveillance Technology To Fight Crime
New Mexico’s largest city is blanketed with 10,000 cameras, license plate readers along some of the busiest roadways, and special...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 6, 20232 min
Controversial Federal Surveillance Program At Crossroads
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is set to consider a reauthorization bill for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 7, 20232 min
Counterterrorism Official Cites Hamas Attack In Urging Renewal Of US Surveillance Program
Last week, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Christine Abizaid cited the October 7 Hamas attack while urging Congress to...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 28, 20231 min
Independent Board Divided On Warrantless Surveillance Law
The federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Board agreed that an expiring law poses a threat to citizen privacy, but it still called for...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 28, 20232 min
FBI Surveillance Powers Face Tough Fight for Renewal
Key lawmakers say they won’t vote to renew FBI's vast powers to collect foreign communications, which expire at the end of this year,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 22, 20232 min
Surveillance Vendor Targets HOAs, Giving Police Backdoor Access
An Atlanta-based vendor of license plate readers and other surveillance tools has targeted homeowners associations' lush budgets and lax...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 1, 20222 min
Cellphone Tracking Tool Makes Inroads in Local Law Enforcement
Police across the county have made heavy use of “Fog Reveal,” a cellphone tracking tool harnessing data to track people's locations,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 8, 20222 min
DHS Checked Americans' Money Transfers in Mexico, Border States
The Department of Homeland Security undertook a secret bulk surveillance program that collected millions of records about Americans'...
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