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Honolulu PD’s $150,000 Boston Dynamics robot dog is doing the hard work of taking temperatures at one of Hawaii’s several outdoor homeless shelters. Continue reading Police Outsourcing Human Interaction With Homeless People to Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog
Internal documents obtained by Motherboard detail the planning of an anti-package theft operation that used fake Amazon boxes rigged with GPS location trackers. Continue reading How Amazon Helped Cops Set Up a Package Theft Sting Operation
The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more. Continue reading Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk’ Database
Policing in the 21st Century is obviously changing rapidly. New technological advances are fundamentally changing the way in which police forces and related government entities can track, locate, and collect evidence.
Two game changing technologies – w… Continue reading Ubiquitous Video Surveillance and the Policing Paradigm Change it Brings
Predpol, an algorithmic tool that police departments use to algorithmically predict crime, quietly created login portals for police departments in at least seventeen US communities. Continue reading Predictive Policing Tool’s Website Exposes Login Pages for 17 US Police Departments
The social network will crack down on those spreading disinformation in an effort to keep people away from the polls. Continue reading Facebook Expands Efforts to Squash Voter Suppression
Crime-predicting software PredPol perpetuates discrimination, just like the discredited “broken windows” policing strategy, say digital rights advocates. Continue reading This Predictive Policing Company Compares Its Software to ‘Broken Windows’ Policing
The company formerly known as TASER changed its name to Axon and is offering a free trial of its body cameras to every cop in America, but the plan raises alarming questions about the future of surveillance. Continue reading America Pays for Free Body Cameras With Its Civil Rights
The company formerly known as TASER changed its name to Axon and is offering a free trial of its body cameras to every cop in America, but the plan raises alarming questions about the future of surveillance. Continue reading America Pays for Free Body Cameras With Its Civil Rights
Records obtained through FOIA reveal the device, nicknamed a “DRTbox”, was used to track suspects at least 12 times, but failed to locate them in five. Continue reading Virginia State Police Used Cell Tower-Spoofing Device to Track Suspects