[ad_1] The perpetrator, who was recorded in footage captured on a phone, doesn’t look like Oliver. For one thing, he has tattoos on his arms, and there aren’t any visible on the person in the video. When Oliver’s attorney took photos of him to the victim and an assistant prosecutor, they agreed Oliver had been […]
Category: civil liberties
False facial recognition match leads to a wrongful arrest in Detroit
[ad_1] Many critics of police facial recognition use warn of the potential for racial bias that leads to false arrests, and unfortunately that appears to have happened. The ACLU has filed a complaint against Detroit police for the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams when a DataWorks Plus facial recognition system incorrectly matched security footage against […]
Court finds algorithm bias studies don’t violate US anti-hacking law
[ad_1] Bates observed that many sites’ terms of service (which are frequently buried, cryptic or both) didn’t provide a good-enough notice to make people criminally liable, and that it’s problematic for private sites to define criminal liability. The judge also found that the government was using an overly broad interpretation when it’s supposed to use […]
Chinese companies want to help shape global facial recognition standards
[ad_1] The report details how Chinese companies including ZTE, Dahua and China Telecom are proposing standards for facial recognition to the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the body responsible for global technical standards in the telecommunication industry. Usually, the standards set by the ITU are technical in nature, but human rights campaigners say the proposals […]
Pennsylvania court rules suspect can’t be forced to provide his password
[ad_1] Justice Debra Todd noted that revealing a password is testimonial as it’s a “verbal communication” that reveals your mind, not just a physical act like providing a blood sample. It also pointed to federal Supreme Court precedent where people couldn’t be forced to reveal the combination to a wall safe — in both cases, […]
Federal judge rules suspicionless device searches at the border are illegal
[ad_1] Casper also rejected the government’s claim that suspicionless searches would cause minimal harm, noting that agents could both look at past searches and were more likely to search people if there had already been a search before. The ACLU and EFF filed the lawsuit on behalf of 11 travelers (all but one of which […]
The FBI plans more social media surveillance
[ad_1] The tool would provide the FBI with access to the full social media profiles of persons-of-interest. That could include information like user IDs, emails, IP addresses and telephone numbers. The tool would also allow the FBI to track people based on location, enable persistent keyword monitoring and provide access to personal social media history. […]