law enforcement
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U.S. Pentagon and State Lack ‘Technical Capacity’ to Detect ‘Stingray’ Phone Surveillance, Senator Says
A slew of federal agency heads and the nation’s top intelligence official are being pressed to respond to what one influential senator is calling an “abysmal failure” by the U.S. government to defend its own employees from unauthorised mobile phone surveillance.
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The FBI’s Fake Encrypted Honeypot Phones Are Showing Up Online
About a month ago, it was revealed that an encrypted phone company was actually a front for a gargantuan FBI operation called “Trojan Shield.” The company, which was really a law enforcement honeypot, sold a product called “ANOM,” an encrypted chat application installed on specific, hardened phones that the bureau was secretly distributing to track…
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Record the Police
A police officer is a convicted murderer in America today because a teenager recorded that police officer murdering a man in broad daylight and shared the video with the world.
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Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies
A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI. Individuals at 1,803 public agencies — many of which are U.S. police departments — have used its facial recognition software at some point over recent years, according to data reviewed by the news outlet.