Mimi Nguyenly reports: Two members of the House Judiciary Committee introduced a bill that seeks to protect the privacy of electronic communications between federal inmates and their attorneys. Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, introduced the [Read More…]
Noah Goldberg reports: A privacy group is suing the MTA over its apparent use of facial recognition technology at a busy Manhattan subway station – though the agency claimed in April the tech was fake to scare people out of attempting fare evasion. The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) – [Read More…]
I was just re-reading a NYT piece from April on widespread surveillance of the citizenry in China and how it had spread to Ecuador. I felt like I was watching an episode of “Person of Interest,” and it was chilling. But the expansion of such surveillance to biometrics is even [Read More…]
Rachel Silberstein reports: The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling on the state Education Department to cancel its approval of a biometric surveillance system for a Western New York school district, arguing that the district has not addressed questions raised by its own experts on potential risks to student [Read More…]