On September 9, 2020, the Portland, Oregon City Council voted unanimously to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the city government, including the police department, following similar actions by the cities of Boston and San Francisco. According to one Council member, “[T]his technology just continues to exacerbate the over-criminalization of Black and brown
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DJI to Manufacture Some Drones in the U.S. to Cure Security Concerns
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
DJI, a supplier of approximately 70 percent of all drones in the United States, announced this week that it will begin manufacturing some of its products in the U.S. DJI plans to repurpose a warehouse in Cerritos, California to assemble a new version of a drone that has been popular among federal and local government…
JHUISI Creates New Way to Protect Drones from Cyber-attacks
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
OnBoard Security, a Wilmington, Massachusetts-based security provider, announced last week that graduate students from Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) have successfully implemented a secured type of sense-and-avoid (SAA) technology for drones to prevent mid-air collisions that is not as vulnerable to cyber-attacks as other prior SAA technologies. The JHUISI team knew that they…
The biggest surveillance and national security event of the year: Super Bowl 50
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy
While you are dipping chips and pulling apart BBQ wings, over 60 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies will be combining their efforts to survey the nearly one million people who will travel to the San Francisco area for Super Bowl 50. Agencies ranging from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Drug Enforcement…
Wikipedia Leads Media and Civil Rights Groups in Suit Against the NSA
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Wickimedia Foundation, along with other well-known media and civil rights groups, including the National Association of Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, PEN American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute and the Washington Office on Latin America filed suit against the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Security…