Martin Gundersen writes: There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. But I decided to find out. This is an English translation, read the original here. Read the English version of Gundersen’s experiment on nrk.no to find out what these apps were collecting about him [Read More…]
From the good folks at EPIC.org: Documents obtained by Motherboard show that a key vendor of school-based facial recognition tools lied to school officials about the accuracy rate and racial bias of its surveillance product. The records reveal that SN Technologies’ AEGIS system misidentifies black students at alarmingly high rates and mistakes objects like [Read More…]
Josh Russell reports: Demanding to see the paper trail, the ACLU complained in federal court Wednesday that the Trump administration is staying mum about its efforts to track immigrants’ movements using cellphone location data. “While it has been widely reported that defendant agencies are acquiring this highly sensitive data without warrants, little [Read More…]
Wendy Davis writes: On May 20, 2019, a man wearing sunglasses, jeans and a reflective vest entered the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian, Virginia, brandished a gun and demanded cash. He made off with $195,000. Four months later, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 24-year-old Okello Chatrie for the [Read More…]