Can You See Me Now? Facial Surveillance Is a Civil Liberties Issue
Technology frequently progresses faster than legal institutions are able to keep up. Facial surveillance – the use by police and other entities of technology which can recognize people and identify them by their faces – is one such area. Facial recognition...
New DOJ Policy Gives Genealogy Website Users Weak Privacy Protections From Law Enforcement
The arrest of the infamous Golden State killer in April 2018 prompted controversy over law enforcement’s use of genealogy databases. The California case ran cold decades ago, but a well-preserved DNA sample was uploaded by detectives into the public database,...
The Cambridge Analytica Revelations Show Why Data Privacy is an Essential Right
Guest Post by David Meyerson, @dbmeyerson, a Software Engineer at Microsoft and co-teacher of computer science in Boston Public Schools. Personal data from 87 million Facebook users in the U.S. was used without those users’ consent to help political consulting firm...
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: April 12
Criminal Legal System Our unemployment rate fails to account for mass incarceration. Mass incarceration disproportionately affects black communities. Unemployment data fails to account for this, which makes the disparity between black and white men in employment...
The Next Major Advancement in Police Search Technology: Vapor Wake Dogs
As our nation around the world struggle with the threat of terrorist attacks and violence from both foreign and domestic sources, we will be forced to engage with the ever-present tension between security and civil liberties. In a 2001 article in the Atlantic,...
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