The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn’t bother to respond.
Tag Archives: surveillance
Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data
Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance.
Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition
As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says.
Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime
The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.
Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images
It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.
GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook
The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.
Taking a GPS tracker off your car isn’t ‘theft,’ court rules
This line of thinking could get absurd, Indiana’s supreme court declared. How do you “steal” something if you don’t know who owns it?
KidsGuard stalkerware leaks data on secretly surveilled victims
The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.
Employers can’t force you to get microchipped, Indiana reps say
The US state wants to make sure employers don’t “overstep their bounds” by imposing mandatory employee microchipping.
Nobody boogies quite like you
Our unique dancing style can be used by a machine-learning model to ID us, regardless of musical genre. Unless it’s Metal. We all headbang.