San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Grants Police More Surveillance Powers
By Matthew Guariglia In a 4-7 vote, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a 15-month pilot program granting the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) more…
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Members of Congress Urge FTC to Investigate Fog Data Science
By Matthew Guariglia In the week since EFF and the Associated Press exposed how Fog Data Science purchases geolocation data on hundreds of millions of digital…
Ring Reveals They Give Videos to Police Without User Consent or a Warrant
By Jason Kelley and Matthew Guariglia Amazon’s Ring devices are not just personal security cameras. They are also police cameras—whether you want them to be…
San Francisco Coalition Fights SFPD’s Proposal to Co-Opt Private Surveillance Cameras
By Matthew Guariglia A large coalition of community and civil rights organizations have sent a letter urging the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to oppose…
Axon Must Not Arm Drones With Tasers
By Matthew Guariglia Taser and surveillance vendor Axon has proposed what it claims to be the solution to the epidemic of school shootings in the…
Geofence Warrants and Reverse Keyword Warrants are So Invasive, Even Big Tech Wants to Ban Them
By Matthew Guariglia Geofence and reverse keyword warrants are some of the most dangerous, civil-liberties-infringing and reviled tools in law enforcement agencies’ digital toolbox. It…
Here’s How ICE Illegally Obtained Bulk Financial Records from Western Union
By Matthew Guariglia Senator Ron Wyden has released a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General voicing his concern over a…
Victory! San Francisco Mayor Withdraws Harmful Measure Against Surveillance Oversight Law
By Matthew Guariglia San Francisco Mayor London Breed has pulled a harmful ballot initiative that threatened to gut the city’s landmark 2019 surveillance oversight ordinance….
Send Surveillance Robot Dogs to the Pound, Not the Border
By Matthew Guariglia On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, the official research and development arm of the…
How are Police Using Drones?
By Matthew Guariglia Across the country, police departments are using myriad means and resources at their disposal to stock up on drones. According to the…
Police Use of Artificial Intelligence: 2021 in Review
By Matthew Guariglia Decades ago, when imagining the practical uses of artificial intelligence, science fiction writers imagined autonomous digital minds that could serve humanity. Sure,…
Crowd-Sourced Suspicion Apps Are Out of Control
By Matthew Guariglia Technology rarely invents new societal problems. Instead, it digitizes them, supersizes them, and allows them to balloon and duplicate at the speed…
Stop Military Surveillance Drones from Coming Home
By Matthew Guariglia A federal statute authorizes the Pentagon to transfer surveillance technology, among other military equipment, to state and local police. This threatens privacy,…
Lessons From History: Afghanistan and the Dangerous Afterlives of Identifying Data
By Matthew Guariglia As the United States pulled its troops out of Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, byproducts of the prolonged deployment took on new…