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This image shows a person's face with layers of pixelation throughout.
Deeplinks Blog by Hannah Zhao | September 30, 2022

EFF to NJ court: Give defendants information regarding police use of facial recognition technology

We’ve all read the news stories: study after study shows that facial recognition algorithms are not always reliable, and that error rates spike significantly when involving faces of folks of color, especially Black women, as well as trans and nonbinary people. Yet this...

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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | September 15, 2022

Members of Congress Urge FTC to Investigate Fog Data Science

In the week since EFF and the Associated Press exposed how Fog Data Science purchases geolocation data on hundreds of millions of digital devices in the United States, and maps them for easy-to-use and cheap mass surveillance by police, elected officials have voiced serious concerns about this...

The shadow of a police officer looms in front of a Ring device on a closed door.
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley, Matthew Guariglia | July 15, 2022

Ring revela que dan vídeos a la policía sin el consentimiento del usuario ni una orden judicial

Los dispositivos Ring de Amazon no son sólo cámaras de seguridad personal. También son cámaras policiales, lo quieras o no. La empresa admite ahora que hay casos de "emergencia" en los que la policía puede acceder sin orden judicial a los dispositivos personales Ring sin el permiso del propietario.
A cityscape with surveillance
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | July 8, 2022

Una coalición de San Francisco lucha contra la propuesta de la policía de San Francisco de cooptar las cámaras de vigilancia privadas

Una gran coalición de organizaciones comunitarias y de derechos civiles ha enviado una carta en la que se insta a la Junta de Supervisores de San Francisco a que se oponga o modifique significativamente una propuesta del Departamento de Policía de San Francisco (SFPD) que aumentaría drásticamente sus poderes...

The shadow of a police officer looms in front of a Ring device on a closed door.
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 14, 2022

Senator Declares Amazon Ring's Audio Surveillance Capabilities "Threaten the Public"

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, a long-time critic of Amazon’s surveillance doorbell camera, Ring, has released a letter of concern and inquiry concerning the device’s audio capabilities. This is partially in response to a recent study conducted by Consumer Reports that found that once the device’s motion sensor...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 7, 2022

Tu resistencia detuvo los peligrosos drones con tasers de Axon

Tras los recientes y terribles tiroteos masivos, el proveedor de servicios policiales Axon anunció sus planes de desarrollar una supuesta solución: un dron controlado a distancia armado con una pistola eléctrica. En respuesta a este anuncio, y a la luz de las objeciones de la Junta de Ética de Axon,...

A cityscape with surveillance
Deeplinks Blog by Mukund Rathi, Matthew Guariglia | February 3, 2022

San Francisco Should Strengthen, Not Gut, Surveillance Ordinance

San Francisco is considering whether to strengthen or roll back civil rights protections against government surveillance. Nearly three years ago, EFF joined a coalition of community groups to support the city’s passage of the Surveillance Technology Ordinance, which bans government use of facial recognition technology and empowers the...

surveillance cameras spying on protestors
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | November 22, 2021

Police Aerial Surveillance Endangers Our Ability to Protest

The ACLU of Northern California has concluded a year-long Freedom of Information campaign by uncovering massive spying on Black Lives Matter protests from the air. The California Highway Patrol directed aerial surveillance, mostly done by helicopters, over protests in Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto, Placerville, Riverside, Sacramento, San Francisco, and...

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