EFF has long warned about police use of facial recognition technology. Now we're seeing exactly what we feared: Axon is testing this tech in body-worn cameras.
Records newly obtained by @RANGEMedia4all show that the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at political protests this year.
Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community.
“Deploying this unreliable, discriminatory, and dangerous surveillance technology at the border just to save a few pounds creates massive risks to the human rights, safety, and well-being of asylum seekers,” EFF’s Molly Buckley told Inkstick Media.
Chat Control has seen many different iterations over the years, and now that it’s coming up on final negotiations, what the proposal does and doesn’t protect can be confusing. Here’s what’s going on.
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It is an old story: When tech companies store too much user data, law enforcement will eventually seek it out. AI companies must commit to pushing back.
