A new report shows at least five North Carolina public universities used taxpayer funds to track students’ social media in recent years, using artificial intelligence software to monitor posts on everything from student protests to drug sales.
Two other private schools in the state also used the software to monitor […]
“Australia must now urgently take stock of the criminalisation of everyday life, the enormous expense, and the future health, education and societal impacts of COVID lockdowns and restrictions,” said Scott Hargreaves, Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs.
Today, the IPA […]
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted on street poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or attached to police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view, along with the location, date, and time. The data, which includes photographs of the […]
There’s something pitiful about the ‘great state of NSW’ knotting its knickers over a political figure that passes as a living version of cheerful Middle England.
‘If this happened in my country this would be a front-page story on every national newspaper…’ […]
Fresh laws to constrain the […]
An in-depth report from The New York Times has revealed the scale of Germany’s prosecution of “online speech-related crimes” and provided a behind-the-scenes look at the units who are tasked with surveilling social […]
Clearview AI’s world leading database of 20 billion images will be available to public defenders seeking to exonerate the wrongfully accused
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clearview AI, the leading facial recognition technology company that provides photo identification technology to help solve crimes has announced the launch of […]
The surveillance networks that New Zealand police used to hunt down three Covid-infected women are being rolled out in other parts of the country.
Police have taken advantage of tapping into a surveillance system run by […]
The operation involving fake right-wing accounts has become so big that information sharing is necessary so authorities do not target each other
Hundreds of the radical Nazis and right-wing extremists online are actually German domestic intelligence agents, and many of them may be responsible for “inciting hatred” and even violence. […]
Tech behemoth could do more to protect user data from landing in the hands of police and other authorities, some say
