[ad_1] A message notifying officers over this past weekend didn’t explain the nature of the breach or identify potential culprits. However, the LAPD was concerned enough that it told officers to monitor their financial accounts, get credit reports and file Federal Trade Commission complaints. In a statement, the force said was taking steps to secure […]
Category: Law Enforcement
Amazon asks police to advertise Ring cameras as part of partnerships
[ad_1] In the case of Lakeland, Florida’s police department, Amazon donated 15 camera-equipped doorbells and started a program encouraging Lakeland residents to download Neighbors, Ring’s neighborhood watch app. Every qualifying download counted as $10 toward the cost of another free doorbell. In return, Lakeland PD not only advertised Neighbors and Ring through “outreach efforts,” but […]
FBI and ICE use DMV photos as ‘gold mine’ for facial recognition data
[ad_1] A total of 21 states allow the practice, including Pennsylvania and Texas. They frequently have rules for requests (such as the need to link them to active investigations), but they don’t always have strict requirements. Washington state is a notable standout with its requirement for court orders. As a result, there isn’t much consent […]
Can the police make me unlock my smartphone?
[ad_1] Terrence O’BrienManaging Editor Although I’m not a lawyer, I was able to find some information courtesy of the ACLU and the EFF. (Note that this information pertains to US citizens specifically.) If you’re at the border, police are permitted to search your computer and portable devices, regardless of whether they have a warrant. Other […]
Something’s wrong with the war on sex trafficking
[ad_1] Thorn offers internet companies its content moderation tool “Safer,” and for law enforcement, its separate data-mining and user-profiling tool “Spotlight.” Both use data sources and AI to automate policing of sex content. Of Thorn’s 31 nonprofit partners, 27 target adults and vow to abolish consensual sex work under the banner of saving children from […]
Botched update crashes hundreds of Netherlands police ankle monitors
[ad_1] This isn’t the first time the Netherlands has had to deal with an outage, albeit not for the same reasons — this one was under police control. A cellular network outage in August 2018 knocked out connections to 450 ankle monitors, forcing a similar scramble. The wearables are frequently helpful for police by giving […]
Senators urge FAA to complete remote drone identification rules
[ad_1] The Senators want law enforcement to be able to quickly identify drones and respond to illegal or unauthorized activity. As the two note in a letter to US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 directed the FAA to issue regulations for the remote identification of drones […]
Google faces surge in police requests for mobile location data
[ad_1] Many of these requests come from relatively new “geofence” warrants that asks Google to hand over location info for every device that passed through a given area over a certain period of time. Google anonymizes the data at first, but it will provide names and other sensitive info if police believe it matches the […]
China says it cloned a police dog to speed up training
[ad_1] The pup was reportedly cloned by plucking somatic cells (used relatively often in cloning) from the skin of the adult dog, creating a cloned embryo and implanting that into a beagle for birth. Researcher Wan Jiusheng said that Kunxun was promising — there’s “good aptitude” for sniffing and other skills needed in a police […]