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Orlando Says It Won’t Continue Testing Amazon’s Controversial Face-Scanning Technology Rekognition
After more than a year of testing Amazon’s high-tech…

Watchdog Says FBI Has Access to About 640M Photographs
A government watchdog says the FBI has access to about 640 million…

San Francisco Just Banned Facial-Recognition Technology
San Francisco, long one of the most tech-friendly and tech-savvy…

Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators…

Close Enough: Police Departments Are Using “Reverse Location Search Warrants” to Force Google to Hand Over Data on Anyone Near a Crime Scene
On the night of March 16, 2017, the city of Raleigh, North…

Amazon Facial-Identification Software Used by Police Falls Short on Tests for Accuracy and Bias, New Research Finds
Facial-recognition software developed by Amazon and marketed…

The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
IS IT POSSIBLE to tell whether someone is a criminal just from…

2018 NACDL Conference: Combatting the Surveillance State
This FREE Training event, co-sponsored by NACDL and the…

ACLU Questions Trade Secrets Protecting DNA Testing Algorithms
DNA testing can be flawed, often in complex ways. However, courts…

Miami Cops Plan to Use New 90-Minute DNA Tests, Alarming Civil Liberty Groups
Traditionally, police need two to three months to collect, process,…