Privacy

The Monterey Police Department is looking for resident input on a plan to install license plate cameras to assist with crime investigations. The controversial technology has seen broad U.S. adoption amid police staffing challenges.

The City Council voted to overhaul San Diego's hard-fought surveillance law, a move officials said was necessary to prevent citywide disruptions, but that privacy advocates saw as a gutting of oversight powers.

Despite criticism, the city passed legislation for a 15-month surveillance pilot program that greatly expanded the powers of police to temporarily monitor live video feeds from privately owned cameras.

In the absence of nationwide policy, 13 states have enacted their own data privacy laws. Several others have taken a different approach with a mix of basic and substantive protections. Congress may take the issue this session.

Advocates for children’s online safety are hoping that Congress will enact federal legislation rather than allowing a piecemeal, state-by-state approach. They hope new rules would rein in tech platforms.

The city of Huber Heights, Ohio, is still in a state of emergency nearly two months after a cyber attack took down multiple government systems and functions. All city services are functional, though additional work is still underway.

The Dayton City Commission this week approved an expansion of license plate reader camera technology in the city. Three other contracts related to police technology were also approved.

Members of the Coalition on Public Protection say the police department's proposed acquisition of fixed-site license plate readers represents a major expansion of surveillance that should trigger public input.

The effects of a November ransomware attack against Oceanside, Calif.’s Tri-City Medical Center were contained more than two weeks ago, but now those behind the cyber incident are publishing stolen data on the dark web.

License plate-reading cameras are springing up across Bakersfield and Kern County, bringing an added level of security that local law enforcement agencies say makes a significant dent in crime.

Three weeks after a cyber attack took down multiple city of Huber Heights, Ohio, government systems and functions, officials have still not determined what, if any, resident personal data has been released by the hackers.

Your car’s safety technology takes you into account. But a lot of that technology helps car companies collect data about you. Researchers are working on closing the gap between safety and privacy.

Marion County Schools in West Virginia will expand its use of facial recognition technology to cross-reference photos of school visitors with photos pulled from the West Virginia State Police's sex offender registry.

City leaders are considering buying nearly three dozen new fixed-site automated license plate readers, which would nearly double the police department's supply of the stationary devices.

Marin County's Sheriff Jamie Scardina will ask the Board of Supervisors to approve the installation of 31 automated license plate readers in unincorporated areas to help stop vehicle theft and other crimes.

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., has joined a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in introducing a bill that seeks to increase transparency and accountability of high-risk AI applications.

Two Baltimore City Council committees this week heard discussion about a pair of proposals designed to regulate the growing use of facial recognition technology within city boundaries.

The right to refuse consent for searches of phones was more explicitly upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the 2014 case of Riley v. California, according to Deaton Law Firm in North Charleston, S.C.