Collaborate Disseminate
Planning to host a large backyard wingding in the NYC metro area this weekend? Be sure to watch the skies for uninvited guests. That’s right, the NYPD are deploying drones …read more Continue reading Labor Day BBQs May Feature NYPD
Two watchdog groups sued the New York Police Department over the agency’s refusal to disclose public records about its acquisition of facial recognition technology and other surveillance tools. The lawsuit, filed by Amnesty International and Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, could force the NYPD to hand over records that will shed light on the depth of its surveillance capabilities. “It’s so outrageous that when New Yorkers came out to protest police abuse they were just met with more of the same,” said Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of S.T.O.P. “We have no idea how often they were using this technology to track New Yorkers who were exercising their First Amendment rights.” Amnesty International last September filed a request seeking public records about the procurement, functionality and general use of facial recognition technology, drones and other surveillance technologies by the NYPD before and during Black Lives Matters protests. The NYPD denied the […]
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Well, that de-escalated quickly. It seems like no sooner than a paper was announced that purported to find photographic evidence of fungi growing on Mars, that the planetary science and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 9, 2021
The malware was introduced to the police network via a contractor who was installing a digital display. Continue reading NYPD Fingerprint Database Taken Offline to Thwart Ransomware
The privacy think tank had them for 20 days, and one of the docs was already displayed at a conference, but the NYPD is still clawing them back. Continue reading NYPD forgets to redact facial recognition docs, asks for them back
Waze users are helping intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and could thus be “engaging in criminal conduct,” say police. Continue reading Police demands Waze stop pinpointing their checkpoints
Much of the fraud involving counterfeit credit, ATM debit and retail gift cards relies on the ability of thieves to use cheap, widely available hardware to encode stolen data onto any card’s magnetic stripe. But new research suggests retailers and ATM operators could reliably detect counterfeit cards using a simple technology that flags cards which appear to have been altered by such tools. Continue reading Detecting Cloned Cards at the ATM, Register
The bill is believed to be the first in the country to push for open sourcing of the algorithms used by courts, police, and city agencies. Continue reading New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City
Months after the study they were a part ended, bright lights remain in New York housing projects. Continue reading Police Floodlights are Unlikely to Reduce Crime, But Could Harm Your Health
The police department refuses to say which models it uses in an FOI tussle with the NYCLU. Continue reading NYPD Says Talking About Its IMSI Catchers Would Make Them Vulnerable to Hacking