Topic: Technology

Surveillance During COVID-19: Five Ways Governments and Companies Are Using the Health Crisis to Expand Surveillance

Every day, new policies stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic are making it far easier for government and private companies to...

Privacy Audit & Assessment of ShotSpotter, Inc.’s Gunshot Detection Technology

In response to concerns over the potential privacy implications of its gunshot detection technology, ShotSpotter Technologies, Inc. (SST) approached the...

Criminalization & COVID19 Webinar (March 31, 2020)

A webinar that discusses the following topics as it relates to the pandemic: 1) How criminalization is manifesting and evolving...

Your Phone Knows if You’re Staying at Home & Does Stopping Coronavirus Require More Surveillance?

Episode 1: Your phone knows if you're staying at home and it is telling the government. The Verge's Casey Newton...

We Can’t Police Our Way Out of the Pandemic – Webinar & Discussion Document

This is a living collection of mostly Canada-centric information and resources on the criminalization of COVID-19 responses, with other examples...

$340 Billion Surge in Emergency Funding to Combat Coronavirus Outbreak

This report details the allotment of financial aid to federal, state, and local agencies during the COVID-19 crisis, including money...

Facial Recognition Technology Regulation: A Practical Guide for Congress

New policies and research suggest there is increasing need to establish protections for facial recognition technology - San Francisco, Somerville,...

Smarter Government or Data-Driven Disaster: The Algorithms Helping Control Local Communities

Governments now use the ability to collect and analyze hundreds of data points everyday to automate many of their decisions,...

Police Surveillance: Facial Recognition Use in Your Backyard

The use of facial recognition technology by police departments, both small and large, has quietly proliferated throughout the country. MuckRock...

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