There’s been a lot of important technology and civil liberties news over the past week. Here’s what you may have missed. Civil Liberties Groups Caution Against Use of Facial Recognition on Body Worn Cameras Dozens of groups including the ACLU and NAACP...
Over the weekend, the City of Cambridge released a draft surveillance oversight ordinance. Today at 2pm the Public Safety Committee of the City Council will hold a hearing on the draft, and take comments from the public and interested organizations. The ACLU...
Communities across the nation are fighting for control over police surveillance, and now’s the time to act in Cambridge to pass a strong local law requiring it. Facial recognition, drones, license plate readers, biometric finger print readers, surveillance cameras, social media monitoring...
The Trump administration has taken the first official step towards fulfilling its promise to conduct “extreme vetting” of visitors and immigrants. On March 30, the State Department released a proposal outlining its plan to require visa applicants to disclose all the social...
In the digital 21st century, large tech companies shape the decisions we make and the information we consume, in ways that are impossible for the ordinary user to see or understand. The algorithms that determine which information will be shown to which...
From The Jetsons to Smart House and Star Trek, pop culture tells of our fascination with futuristic technology. So it’s no surprise to see many consumers enamored by Amazon and Google’s electronic home assistants and “smart” appliances. Want to turn off the...
The Department of Justice’s research arm, the National Institute for Justice, has announced $2 million in funding for “research to apply advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to support law enforcement in preventing, responding to, and investigating gang violence, human and drug...
As a part of its Muslim ban, the Trump administration has promised to subject all foreign visitors from certain, majority Muslim nations to what the president calls “extreme vetting.” Part of that process, according to the Department of Homeland Security, will involve...