Privacy

Police officials say the more than three dozen Flock Safety cameras placed throughout the city will help identify criminal suspects by capturing license plate information at major intersections.

After discovering 250 cases in which the state police allegedly used covert surveillance tech without turning over the evidence, the Committee for Public Counsel Services is urging public defenders to start an inquiry.

Three years after Lockport City School District purchased a facial- and object-recognition system from Aegis, state legislation has put a moratorium on the technology, and the district is complying.

While AI appears to be a shiny new bauble full of promises and perils, lawmakers in both parties acknowledge that they must first resolve a less trendy but more fundamental problem: data privacy and protection.

California lawmakers have passed Senate Bill 362, known as the Delete Act, that would allow consumers to have every data broker delete their personal information with a single request.

A hard-won ordinance that brought oversight to San Diego's many surveillance technologies needs critical fixes, officials say, or day-to-day operations the city relies on could come to a standstill.

The California Assembly has approved legislation to notify drivers when images are gathered by in-vehicle cameras and prohibit sale for advertising, protecting consumers against the increased sale of personal data.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced today that $5 million in grant funding is now available to help local law enforcement agencies invest in body camera equipment and pay for associated expenses.

The Aurora City Council will vote Tuesday night on a new five-year, $6.2 million contract for body cameras and Tasers for the police department, as well as accompanying software that would run through 2028.

A U.S. district court judge has issued a temporary injunction against an Arkansas law that mandates social media companies to use third-party vendors for age verification checks on new users or face substantial fines.

The pandemic sparked growth in free digital tools for students and teachers. As that trend continues, student privacy protections are gaining more focus — and, it seems, more enforcement.

The gang database “typecast minority youths as gang members without evidence, putting them at risk of false arrest and wrongful deportation,” according to a report by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

The MTA’s OMNY payment system could reveal your trip history to anyone who has your credit card number — and cybersecurity experts said Wednesday the setup might threaten your privacy.

A surveillance tool shares local data with out-of-state agencies — a practice among many law enforcement departments and one that some lawyers, privacy advocates and legislators say is illegal.

Under a deal with the Minnesota Department of Human Services, approved by the St. Paul City Council in June, police officers have around-the-clock access to a controversial smartphone-hacking device called GrayKey.

An ongoing education equity deals with a policy whereby researchers, in order to gain access to private education data, must agree not to release information from the data or testify about it without advance permission.

The Irvine City Council has started to take inventory of the city’s public security cameras as the first part of its preliminary planning for more security cameras to be added in additional public spaces.

Lexington police say their newest technological investigative tool will not intrude on citizen privacy despite the system making use of security cameras that are owned by businesses and residents.