Internal emails: how Evolv's gun-detection AI system made its way to NYC subway stations, despite Evolv saying the system is not designed for that environment
the scanners produced false positives 85 percent of the time during the seven-month pilot. https://www.wired.com/... @casaverde83 : “Cohen, former NYPD Dep Commissioner of intelligence, also sits on E...
NYC police officers and critics describe the NYPD's growing use of post-9/11 digital surveillance tools, initially used for counterterrorism, in minor cases
because of 9/11, because of other terrorist attacks and things that have happened — unquestionable, unchecked power."https://www.nytimes.com/ ... Arthur Holland Michel / @writearthur : Crazy tidbit he...
NYPD says it has canceled its contract with Boston Dynamics and will return the Spot robotic dog, amid backlash about the robot's surveillance capabilities
Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage situations, raising fears of unwanted surveillance
The NYPD's robot dog is once again stirring privacy concerns and cyberpunk prophesies of some New Yorkers, after the four-legged machine …
An overview of Microsoft's various services for law enforcement, including the Domain Awareness System, a mass surveillance platform it first built for the NYPD
Michael Kwet / The Intercept : Tweets: @culturejedi and @theintercept Tweets: Malkia Devich-Cyril / @culturejedi : “But Microsoft, which has largely escaped criticism, is knee-deep in services for la...
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17
Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it. Tweets: @chillmage and @caseynewton Tweets: @chillmage : make...
NYPD disputes facial recognition firm Clearview AI's claim that it identified a terrorism suspect; company's founders have previous connections to the far right
both important digital rights. https://twitter.com/... Eli Valley / @elivalley : Cool update on the maker of a fascist surveillance app used by law enforcement and pitched to Nazis! https://twitter.co...
NYPD disputes facial recognition firm Clearview AI's claim that it identified a terrorism suspect; company's founders have previous connections to the far right
Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that says it's amassed a database of billions of photos, has a fantastic selling point …
Records show the NYPD has uploaded arrest photos of juveniles into a facial recognition database since 2015, despite higher risk of false matches in young faces
With little oversight, the N.Y.P.D. has been using powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers.
Researchers: NYPD used edited suspects' photos and photos of celebs, when witnesses said the suspects looked like them, to generate facial recognition matches
In one case, a photo of the actor Woody Harrelson was used to locate a suspect — A new report from Georgetown Law's Center …