“Inside NYPD Anti-Terror Command Center” leaves out key details
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Search Results for ‘face recognition’ — 145 articles
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Sex offenders scapegoat for biometrics program that will affect everyone
This is how it starts.
“You always start with sex offenders because nobody is going to stick up for sex offenders. The question is where it goes from there.”
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Race and class matters: All’s not equal when it comes to the government’s big data habit
Above: Affected children protest the fingerscanning requirement in Jackson, MS
(Note: This is somewhat unrelated, but for Apple iPhone users, very important. Click here to learn how to opt-out of automated tracking in iOS 6.)
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Mysterious surveillance equipment at Occupy Wall Street one year anniversary
The NYPD deployed multiple TARU surveillance teams throughout the streets on Monday as activists gathered for a one year anniversary celebration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The TARU (which stands for Technical Assistance Response Unit) teams filmed protesters with handheld cameras, moving throughout crowds and following shortly behind the white shirted police officers who swept in to make arrests.
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License plate readers, drones and the Katz test
Late last week the Congressional Research Service published a report, "Drones in Domestic Surveillance Operations: Fourth Amendment Implications and Legislative Responses." I haven't gotten a chance to read through the entire thing yet, but a couple of interesting things jump out right off the bat.
Among them:
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The biometrics future is now
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Iris scans; face, palm and finger prints; ear patterns; gait and voice recognition; and tattoos and scars: these are among the biometric and physical indicators that the federal government wants to collect in order to identify us -- even without our permission or our knowledge.
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Trapwire and data mining: What we know
These days every news cycle brings us more thoroughly disturbing reasons to be concerned about pervasive digital monitoring in the United States. This week things got extra interesting with the revelation of an enormous, shadowy surveillance company with deep ties to the CIA: Trapwire exploded on the surveillance scene like a bat out of hell. And people are justifiably freaked out about it.
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The “lawful interception” fig leaf obscures real state of surveillance
Last month I wrote about how cell phone spoofing technology manufacturers are hawking their goods to police departments, advertising the secret sniffing devices as ideal for covertly monitoring protests.
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NYPD’s Domain Awareness System raises privacy, ethics issues
A couple of weeks ago AP reported that the NYPD and Microsoft jointly developed a surveillance platform for the police department called "Domain Awareness System." The story was short on details, but told us "the program combines city-wide video surveillance with law enforcement databases" "to track both criminals and potential terrorists."
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