Tag: police

US lawmakers want to restrict police use of ‘Stingray’ cell tower simulators

Amazon extends ban on police use of its facial recognition software

Minneapolis police used Google location data to find George Floyd protesters

Amazon’s Ring has teamed up with over 2,000 police and fire departments

You can’t fight fascism by expanding the police state

A ‘black eye on security’: Why didn’t the Capitol Police stop the rioters?

Singapore police can access data from the country’s contract tracing app

Massachusetts lawmakers pass state-wide police ban on facial recognition

Police conducted a ‘planned assault’ on protesters, according to a new visual investigation

Canadian police charged a Tesla owner for sleeping while driving

New York City says it will reassess police use of facial recognition

Berkeley is going to create a new traffic enforcement department, so police don’t do traffic stops

Facial recognition linked to a second wrongful arrest by Detroit police

Decades of failed reforms have allowed for ongoing police brutality

This interactive map shows police violence during protests

Eric Andre’s ‘Legalize Everything’ is the perfect Netflix special for the Defund the Police era

Report: ‘Highly sensitive’ police department data hacked for a WikiLeaks-style website

Nextdoor pulls ‘Forward to Police’ feature amid concerns over racist abuse

How Sylvester Stallone cop movies explain changing attitudes about the police

Does defunding the police sound radical? Some cities have already taken the first steps

5 takeaways from John Oliver’s outstanding ‘Last Week Tonight’ episode on defunding the police

Here’s what’s included in the sweeping police reform bill introduced by Democrats

These are 8 simple reforms mayors could make to start to reduce police violence

Does your local prosecutor hold police accountable? This site will tell you

How to watch BET’s special about race and police brutality protests without cable

Is it time to defund the police?

As cities make deep cuts because of COVID-19, police departments are keeping their funding

K-pop stans may have caused the Dallas Police Department’s surveillance app to crash

How genetic info is changing the way that police operate—and how we all think about privacy

Ring’s police partnerships earn Amazon a knock on the door from Congress

Building a Blockchain Police Bodycam PoC for $25

To learn how police use facial recognition, we must ask the right questions

Indian police are using facial recognition to identify protesters in Delhi

Police arrest member of group that hijacked Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account

US court let police search GEDmatch’s entire DNA database despite protections

Florida police obtain Alexa recordings in murder investigation

Disney’s ‘Mulan’ already facing boycott after its star supported Hong Kong police over protestors

Axon won’t use facial recognition tech in its police body cameras

Botched update crashes hundreds of Netherlands police ankle monitors

Google faces surge in police requests for mobile location data

Phone-hacking device used by police sells on eBay for $100

UK police arrest two over Gatwick airport drones