44 Local Organizations Stand Against SFPD’s Killer Robots
By Matthew Guariglia EFF is announcing a letter signed by 44 community groups who stand united in opposition to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors…
By Matthew Guariglia EFF is announcing a letter signed by 44 community groups who stand united in opposition to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors…
By Matthew Guariglia The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a policy that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use…
By Matthew Guariglia In August, the Tulsa police department held a press conference about how its new Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs), a controversial piece…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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,…