Privacy

A lawsuit has been filed against California Attorney General Rob Bonta as a result of the June exposure of a trove of personal data housed in the Department of Justice’s Firearms Dashboard Portal.

Portland leaders should approve more than a dozen conditions before the city starts using ShotSpotter gunfire detection technology to address privacy, surveillance and other concerns, a community oversight group says.

Ring, an electronic doorbell company owned by Amazon, admitted to providing video to law enforcement without consent of the device owner 11 times this year, according to Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey.

Police in Denver, Colo., used what some call a “digital dragnet” when they asked Google for search history related to a stalled arson investigation. The tactic netted suspects, but also kicked up privacy concerns.

State and federal judges and prosecutors are among the more than 200,000 people that had sensitive personal information, like addresses, exposed in the recent leak of state concealed handgun permit data.

At the annual International Society for Technology in Education conference in New Orleans this week, a panel advised school administration and vendors on how to work together on data privacy agreements.

Initial reports of the exposure of personal information about concealed handguns permits was more expansive than initially thought. California Department of Justice officials now say several other data sets were exposed.

All Californians with a permit to carry a concealed handgun had their personal information exposed online after a breach of the California Department of Justice’s 2022 Firearms Dashboard Portal.

The controversial surveillance camera technology on public streetlights has raised calls for oversight from privacy and civil rights advocates. A City Council vote could change the rules around how the tech is governed.

Legislators, advocacy groups and industry experts have spoken at length about the draft national data privacy legislation, raising questions about its chances of success and what it could mean for states' privacy rules.

Twenty-one states have a CPO position, up from just 12 in 2019. States appear to be recognizing the need to tackle privacy as government data collection grows, but CPOs still struggle to get enough funds.

The city of Boca Raton is letting its police force participate in a statewide facial recognition program, joining hundreds of communities in Florida employing the controversial crime-fighting technology.

After years of delay and discussion, Congress has released a bipartisan draft bill outlining a comprehensive federal data privacy policy. However, the proposal fails to adequately address two major issues.

In response to several mass shootings, the company announced that it was working on drones armed with Tasers to stop shooters. Now that work is paused after most of the company's ethics board resigned in protest.

The state's highest court has now remanded a civil lawsuit, centering around whether municipalities have the right to fly a drone over someone's property, back to the state's Court of Appeals.

Police in Manchester, N.H., are building a system that would allow residents to funnel their surveillance camera footage directly to the department. The city’s 285 security cameras will also be added to the system.

The rollout of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office's new property crimes unit, which includes a range of policing technology to assist with investigations, has raised privacy concerns among residents.

The proposal, known as the Consumer Data Privacy Act, would give state residents greater control over the information gathered about them online, allowing them to have it deleted and opt out of further collection.