Below are posts associated with the “law enforcement” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns'
Scary stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced that facial recognition tech does more good than harm.
🔗 linkblog: How Ring Cameras Have the Power to Perpetuate Bias to Police – The Markup'
Solid article right here.
🔗 linkblog: Amazon’s ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Might Be Turning Police Officers Into ‘Reddit Moderators’ – The Markup'
Public-private surveillance is the worst of both worlds. Ring is creepy.
🔗 linkblog: Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras | WIRED'
Hear hear. Ring is a creepy company, and we shouldn’t support them.
🔗 linkblog: Neighborhood Watch Out: Cops Are Incorporating Private Cameras Into Their Real-Time Surveillance Networks | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
This sounds worrying to me. Surveillance can and will be abused, and we should be wary about embracing it on this scale.
🔗 linkblog: Police Are Still Abusing Investigative Exemptions to Shield Surveillance Tech, While Others Move Towards Transparency | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
Who is allowed to watch the watchmen? This is why I’m grumpy about Lexington being hush hush about its new automated license plate readers—it sets a precedent for secretive use of even more invasive surveillance.
🔗 linkblog: Arizona Makes It Illegal To Record Cops From Less Than Eight Feet Away | Techdirt'
It’s funny how conditional the GOP’s concerns about free speech are. That’s not to say that free speech isn’t a complicated topic to be weighed in conjunction with other concerns—it absolutely is. But if a party wants to use a simplistic view of free speech as a rallying cry, stunts like this show how just how simplistic that view is.