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A Washington state judge has ordered prediction market platform Kalshi to halt sports betting and other wagers available to users in the state, and to use geofencing technology to block access for Washington residents.
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Researchers are investigating the use of foundation models and synthetic data to advance facial recognition technology. The work points toward a new generation of biometric systems that may require less real-world personal data to train.
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The Premier League has agreed to fund live facial recognition technology for the Metropolitan Police to deploy on matchdays, extending surveillance operations at football matches in London.
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The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced it will begin publicly disclosing how frequently federal judges have authorized government use of spyware for wiretapping in criminal investigations. The move introduces a new layer of transparency into a surveillance practice that has largely operated out of public view.
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A guide from Cybernews outlines tools and methods people can use to reduce their visibility to facial recognition systems in public and online spaces.
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It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.
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Newly released documents reveal that a federal surveillance operation in Minnesota monitored progressive organizations and labor unions. The scope and methods of the operation are drawn from the documentary record rather than any official public acknowledgment.
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You're not alone if you just received an "Apple Threat Notification" saying it detected a "mercenary spyware attack targeted at your iPhone." [...]
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Facial recognition technology is apparently being deployed or considered in The Castro, San Francisco's historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood, prompting scrutiny about its use in that community context.
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Flock Safety, which sells license plate reader and surveillance tools to law enforcement agencies, announced it is making a new feature called 'Audit Assistance' mandatory for all customers, saying it has already helped identify officer misconduct. The company has not publicly explained how the tool works or what metrics it uses to flag potential abuse.
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Flock Safety, a major provider of automated license plate reader systems, has announced a set of reforms in response to widespread backlash that led many municipalities to cancel or pause their contracts with the company. Critics, including civil liberties advocates, say the changes address some long-standing problems but leave the core privacy risks of mass vehicle surveillance intact.
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A blog post from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation argues that facial recognition technology is being unfairly singled out as the driver of workplace surveillance, suggesting the focus on this one tool may be misplaced.
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Brazil is grappling with a public debate over AI-powered facial recognition technology, weighing its stated benefits against the social and civil liberties costs it carries.
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Flock Safety, the company behind a widely deployed network of automated license plate readers, announced policy or operational changes following public criticism of its surveillance infrastructure.
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Youverse, a biometric technology company, has drawn attention to its performance in a NIST evaluation, touting strong accuracy results for facial recognition systems operating at population scale.
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EPIC and more than two dozen civil rights and privacy organizations sent letters to the Senate and Thomson Reuters urging action to protect Americans from commercial surveillance practices they argue violate Fourth Amendment rights.
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Flock Safety is requiring all customers to use its Audit Assistance feature to flag abnormal usage patterns, and is cutting its default license plate data retention to seven days. The changes follow reported incidents of officers misusing the surveillance network.
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A federal appeals court ruled that a Virginia Beach assistant principal did not violate a 13-year-old's Fourth Amendment rights by searching the student's phone without a warrant, even though the search occurred in front of school police and led to criminal charges. The decision sits in tension with the Supreme Court's Riley ruling, which generally requires warrants for cellphone searches.
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Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, has announced changes to its platform following public backlash. The nature of the specific changes and the backlash that prompted them were not detailed in available reporting.
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The CEO of Flock Safety, a license plate reader company widely used by U.S. law enforcement, has acknowledged the company was too slow to respond to officers misusing its surveillance technology to track romantic partners, in some cases leading to officers resigning.
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A new piece draws a contrast between The Dark Knight's 2008 treatment of mass surveillance as a serious ethical threat and the way the newer Spider-Man: Brand New Day handles the same subject as comedy.
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An argument has been made that regulatory frameworks are necessary to establish public trust in facial recognition technology. The claim positions regulation not as a barrier to the technology but as a condition for its broader acceptance.
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The North Port Police Department has announced plans to adopt AI-powered facial recognition software, according to local reporting. No further operational details are available from the source.
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Western Australia police are running a live facial recognition trial that is being used to make arrests, raising active questions about whether current privacy law covers real-time biometric surveillance in public spaces.
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