Law Enforcement

The Hotel Room Was Once A Privacy Barrier. AI Is Removing It

From “reclaimthenet.org” Your backdrop may reveal where you are, even when your caption says nothing at all. Graylark, a Boston company that sells an AI investigation platform to “qualified law enforcement agencies, enterprise users, and government entities,” says that one photo taken inside a rental or a hotel room is now enough for its system

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DOJ Says Flock Camera Data Is Not Protected By Fourth Amendment

From “reclaimthenet.org” The government’s answer to omnipresent surveillance is that omnipresent surveillance is normal. The US government has told a federal appeals court that data collected by Flock Safety cameras is not protected by the Fourth Amendment, because being watched on the road is “a reality of modern life” – and therefore, nobody can expect

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North Carolina Woman Doesn’t Have First Amendment Right to Publish Video of Cop Shooting Her Dogs, Court Rules

From “reason.com” A North Carolina state trooper shot Lydia Nikac’s two dogs, but an appeals court ruled she doesn’t have a right to publish body camera footage of the shooting under the state’s restrictive public records laws.A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday rejected a woman’s First Amendment challenge to a judge’s order barring her

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Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.

From “reason.com” AI-powered license plate readers flagged an abnormal driving pattern. Then officers made up reasons to pull him over and interrogated him, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search.A federal jury on Monday found Bexar County, Texas, liable for systematically violating thousands of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights for years through

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