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This might’ve worked in the 1980s against East Coast mob bosses and South Florida drug dealers, but there’s good reason to believe it will be useless here.
Hacked emails show the city only learned police were using technology developed by Clearview AI — which faces multiple suits claiming it violated the state’s biometrics privacy act — until after inquiries last year by the Sun-Times.
Emails from the city of Chicago and its police department are among the documents stolen from Jones Day in a hack of its file transfer vendor, Accellion.
The Cybersecurity 202: Biden administration issues executive order in wake of pipeline attack Tonya Riley with Aaron Schaffer In the wake of yet another major cyberattack, the Biden administration unveiled a historic cybersecurity directive that officials hope will initiate major change in U.S. cybersecurity standards. The directive outlines a number of measures to strengthen federal cybersecurity, including instilling more rigorous security requirements for software providers that contract with the federal government, improving reporting practices for cybersecurity incidents and requiring federal agencies to adopt better security practices. “We simply cannot let waiting for the next incident to happen to be the status quo under which we operate," a White House official said.
May 6, 2021 FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, a video surveillance camera is installed on the ceiling above a subway platform in the Court Street station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) COLUMBUS (AP) — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button.
The plaintiffs in these cases are often the media, including the Better Government Association. They also include relatives of citizens injured and killed in confrontations with police officers, activists and attorneys preparing civil lawsuits on behalf of criminal defendants. The police department accounted for more than two-thirds of the overall payouts — although sometimes it was a co-defendant with other oversight agencies, including the mayor’s office. To determine whether similar patterns existed in other government departments, the BGA also examined public records lawsuits filed against nine other agencies from the Chicago Housing Authority to the governor’s office. None demonstrated the Chicago Police Department’s pattern of repeated denials for similar records.
ShotSpotter Triggers Over 61 'Dead-End Deployments' A Day: Study - Evanston, IL - Only 14% of ShotSpotter alerts in Chicago lead to an incident report at all, according to a study from Northwestern University's law school.
May 05, 2021 - 8:04 PM US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines WASHINGTON (AP) â The Biden administration on Wednesday joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic, a shift that puts the U.S. alongside many in the developing world who want rich countries to do more to get doses to the needy. United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the government's position, amid World Trade Organization talks about a possible temporary waiver of its protections that would allow more manufacturers to produce the life-saving vaccines. âThe Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines," Tai said in a statement.
States push back against use of facial recognition by police By Julie Carr Smyth - Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button. At least seven states and nearly two dozen cities have limited government use of the technology amid fears over civil rights violations, racial bias and invasion of privacy. Debate over additional bans, limits and reporting requirements has been underway in about 20 state capitals this legislative session, according to data compiled by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.