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VOICE ARCHIVE

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

@profferguson
12 posts
2025-12-19
Hey, Google.  Are the police reading my search queries without a warrant? therecord.media/google-searc...
2025-12-19 View on X
The Record

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide

Getting a warrant for these was already trivial.  [embedded post] @toad.city : Experts warn that if violating people's privacy is already deeply ingrained in the culture of policin...

2025-03-25
Your DNA is for sale.  —  This is the danger of all personal data.  As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
2025-03-25 View on X
Bloomberg

23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021

Most corporations are not going to look out for your privacy.  And we now have a federal government intent on using your data for bad purposes. Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi : ...

2025-03-24
Your DNA is for sale.  —  This is the danger of all personal data.  As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
2025-03-24 View on X
Bloomberg

23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021

The Silicon Valley-based firm will continue marketing itself to investors with the goal of getting at least …

2024-07-27
At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You Also true in the US ... see “Video Analytics and Fourth Amendment Vision.” https://papers.ssrn.com/... #surveillance #tech #privacy https://www.wired.com/...
2024-07-27 View on X
Bloomberg Law

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance

The Paris Summer Olympics that begin Friday include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever of algorithmic video surveillance …

Love the Olympics. Don't love the surveillance games. #privacy https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
2024-07-27 View on X
Bloomberg Law

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance

The Paris Summer Olympics that begin Friday include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever of algorithmic video surveillance …

2023-03-09
The privacy loophole in your doorbell. Over-broad warrants, weak standards of proof, and complicit corporate interests means you are only a warrant away from being surveilled. ⁦@alfredwkng⁩ with another must read. https://www.politico.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
Politico

Ring turned over footage of inside a user's home and business after a US judge's warrant gave police access to investigate a neighbor, raising privacy concerns

Police were investigating his neighbor.  A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.

2021-06-30
GAO report on Facial Recognition Technology is a red flag waving a bigger red flag about the danger of unregulated biometric technologies. #surveillance https://www.gao.gov/...
2021-06-30 View on X
Washington Post

GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies

Black Lives Matter protesters, Jan. 6 rioters and regular travelers are among those targeted by agencies using the tech, including the IRS and the Postal Service

2020-12-28
First, read this troubling article about how police are using data trails to map suspects. Second, explain how this type of long-term, aggregated data collection isn't a Fourth Amendment search after Carpenter. It's CSLI on steroids. #surveillance https://theintercept.com/...
2020-12-28 View on X
The Intercept

Documents detail CellHawk, a little-known surveillance tool used widely by law enforcement, which can visualize large amounts of data collected by cell towers

Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. Tweets: @profferguson , @carlark3 , @theintercept , and @th...

2020-12-06
Also good for surveilling journalists trying to do their job. Might need to rethink their take. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-06 View on X
New York Times

Some police departments in California and Georgia have started using autonomous drones this year to track vehicles and people, raising civil rights questions

In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions. Tweets: @matt_cagle , @jessicaram...

2019-12-20
“The majority of face recognition algorithms exhibit demographic differentials. A differential means that an algorithm's ability to match two images of the same person varies from one demographic group to another.” So, maybe not for policing.... https://www.nist.gov/...
2019-12-20 View on X
Washington Post

Study of 189 facial recognition algorithms shows they misidentify people of color more often than white people, confirming facial recognition tech's racial bias

Facial-recognition systems misidentified people of color more often than white people, a landmark federal study released Thursday shows …

2019-11-15
Big data policing in a can. Knightscope's Security Robots With #FacialRecognition and other sensor#surveillance capabilities. https://onezero.medium.com/...
2019-11-15 View on X
OneZero

Docs show surveillance robots from Knightscope collect data using tools like facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, and wireless device detection

OneZero obtained a presentation that reveals how Knightscope uses facial recognition and license plate readers to track individuals Tweets: @ozm , @davegershgorn , @kodykinzie , @g...

2019-10-09
Friendly advice to tech companies entering the public safety space: Democratic engagement before disruption would save you from these scandals. #surveillance #privacy https://www.cnet.com/...
2019-10-09 View on X
CNET

More than 30 civil rights groups sign an open letter asking mayors and city councils to cancel 500+ existing local police partnerships with Amazon's Ring

Ring has more than 500 police partnerships across the US, and a coalition of civil rights groups are calling for local governments to cancel them all.