China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems

Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology ...

Elite US colleges linked to Chinese surveillance labs driving Uyghur ‘genocide,’ study warns

Major U.S. universities, including MIT, Harvard and Stanford, partnered with Chinese AI labs tied to Uyghur surveillance, new ...
Government Technology

How Important Is Surveillance Tech on Public Transit?

Amidst growing public safety concerns, a major transit agency is evolving its use of surveillance technology to introduce new cameras in different places. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), in the San ...

Biometric Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

This article explains how new surveillance and biometric tech, like drones and facial recognition, challenge privacy rights. Courts are increasingly scrutinizing when warrants are needed, balancing ...
The Harvard Crimson

City Council Approves Surveillance Technologies Despite Resident Pushback

The Cambridge City Council narrowly approved the Cambridge Police Department’s request to obtain two surveillance technologies amid fierce pushback from residents, but postponed voting on the purchase ...
Technical

Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on identifying physical features

American Amara Majeed was accused of terrorism by the Sri Lankan police in 2019. Robert Williams was arrested outside his house in Detroit and detained in jail for 18 hours for allegedly stealing ...
WSMV

Metro Council votes against surveillance police camera technology

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - After several months of listening to the community and long discussions on surveillance technology in Nashville, Metro Council Members ended a discussion involving Fusus ...
Government Technology

Court Orders NYPD to Disclose Surveillance Tech Contracts

(TNS) — New Yorkers may soon have a much better understanding of how the NYPD uses technology to conduct surveillance, track cellphones and maintain its facial recognition database. An appeals court ...
Davis Vanguard

ACLU Sues San Francisco Landlords over Alleged AI Surveillance in Tenants’ Homes

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California and two partner law firms filed a lawsuit against major landlord Equity ...
Los Angeles Times

How Silicon Valley tech enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American tech giants sold surveillance technology to China, enabling mass detention campaigns targeting hundreds ...

Proposal would let nonprofit use state grant for downtown surveillance

A Nashville council resolution could hand a private downtown nonprofit new surveillance technology, an armored police vehicle ...
Arkansas Times

Proposal before LR directors would force transparency on police surveillance

The Little Rock Board of Directors will vote today on an ordinance that would establish transparency and reporting requirements for police surveillance technology.