A former technical surveillance officer at the UK’s Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) – a team charged with tackling serious organized crime and terrorism
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San Francisco bars police from using killer robots after outcry
Comment on this story Comment San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to bar police from using robots to kill, in a striking reversal that
US police use counterterrorism money to buy spy tech
The report drew on a host of public records, and its financial calculations aggregate previous research with public data from government websites. The organizations provide
Portland, Maine, bans police from using facial recognition software
James Martin/CNET On Tuesday, citizens of Portland, Maine, passed a ballot initiative banning use of facial recognition and surveillance technology by law enforcement, the Bangor
Police are using facial recognition for minor crimes because they can
Peter Cade/Getty Images Cities all across the US have passed bans on facial recognition, with variations in how strong the regulations are. Though Portland, Oregon, banned
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
Google is providing information to police based on what people are searching for, including data like IP addresses. Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images There
License plate tracking for police set to go nationwide
License plate readers are powerful technology that allow police to keep track of a car’s movement across a city. Getty Images Police often rely on
Police use of facial recognition gets reined in by UK court
A close-up of a police facial recognition camera used in Cardiff, Wales. Matthew Horwood/Getty Images Since 2017, police in the UK have been testing live,
Google employees demand end to police contracts in letter to CEO
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google employees have sent a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that the search giant stop selling
Police use of social media is under a microscope amid protests
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked protests across the nation against police brutality and racism. Getty Images As protests against racism intensified
Microsoft says it won’t sell its facial recognition tech to police
Angela Lang/CNET Microsoft won’t sell its facial recognition software to police and law enforcement until federal regulations for facial recognition tech are in place, company
Amazon announces one-year pause on facial recognition for police
Rekognition being used by the Washington County sheriff’s department in Oregon. ACLU Amazon’s facial recognition won’t be matching with police for the next year, the