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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...
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,...
El proveedor de pistolas eléctricas y de vigilancia Axon ha propuesto lo que pretende ser la solución a la epidemia de tiroteos en las escuelas de Estados Unidos: un dron volador por control remoto armado con una pistola eléctrica. Por muchas razones, se trata de una idea peligrosa. Los...
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...
Across the country, police departments are using myriad means and resources at their disposal to stock up on drones. According to the most recent tally on the Atlas of Surveillance (a project of EFF and the University of Nevada), at least 1,172 police departments nationwide are using drones. And...
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...
A federal statute authorizes the Pentagon to transfer surveillance technology, among other military equipment, to state and local police. This threatens privacy, free speech, and racial justice. So Congress should do the right thing and enact Representative Ayanna Pressley’s amendment, Moratorium on Transfer of Controlled Property to Enforcement...
There are more federal facial recognition technology (FRT) systems than there are federal agencies using them, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Its latest report on current and planned use of FRT by federal agencies reveals that, among the 24 agencies surveyed, there are 27 federal FRT...
En los días siguientes al tiroteo policial de Jacob Blake el 23 de agosto de 2020, cientos de manifestantes marcharon por las calles de Kenosha, Wisconsin. Resulta que las fuerzas del orden federales recogieron datos de localización de muchos de esos manifestantes. La Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco y Armas...
La Oficina del Inspector General (OIG) de Chicago ha publicado un informe muy crítico sobre el uso por parte del Departamento de Policía de Chicago de ShotSpotter, una tecnología de vigilancia que se basa en una combinación de inteligencia artificial y "expertos acústicos" humanos para supuestamente identificar y...
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