Spain temporarily bans Sam Altmans Crypto-biometrics project #Worldcoin under #GDPR biometric data protections. https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/worldcoin-spain-ban/

EFF helps #IndyBay fight off a a #warrant. It bears noting that SFPD had promised not harass the press with source warrants after undergoing severe criticism over warrants issued to Bryan Carmody. #Journalism #ShieldLaws https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/victory-eff-helps-resist-unlawful-warrant-and-gag-order-issued-independent-news

Italy to stop sending speed camera photos with fine notices after breaking up a few marriages by sending pictures showing unexpected passengers in cars. "The newspaper said there had been various reports of people's relationships, marriages or business deals failing after speed camera photos revealed that someone not expected to be traveling with them was in their car". #privacy https://www.dw.com/en/italy-to-stop-sending-speed-camera-photos-over-privacy/a-68480595

Reporter wins #publicrecords lawsuit against CA Governor Newsom for calendar entries showing how often Newsom's cabinet secretary met with #PG&E. https://www.courthousenews.com/newsom-must-turn-over-secretarys-pge-meeting-records-california-judge-rules-in-journalists-favor/

"This highlights a remarkable fact about deep learning, the fundamental technology behind today’s #AI boom: for all its runaway success, nobody knows exactly how—or why—it works". https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/04/1089403/large-language-models-amazing-but-nobody-knows-why/

Durham, North Carolina ends #Shotspotter contract. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article286244685.html

U.S. Treasury Department sanctions the makers of Predator commercial #spyware https://apnews.com/article/predator-spyware-intellexa-sanctions-treasury-tal-dilian-731263dac7e62182e255b01e910830c9

Berkeley #Police Accountability Board submits first subpoena to the City following the ballot initiative that granted them #subpoena power was overwhelmingly passsed by Berkeley voters. https://www.dailycal.org/news/city/berkeley-accountability-board-to-subpoena-city-and-police-after-struggling-to-access-records/article_6e402346-d7c5-11ee-88d9-3b2428ea0d6f.html

United to Save The Mission says no to Prop E. #NoOnPropE https://www.missionwordsf.com/post/gutting-police-oversight-and-spying-on-san-franciscans-vote-no-on-prop-e

"Clicking your way through a poorly secured website doesn't satisfy most people's definition of #hacking #CFAA https://reason.com/2024/02/26/feds-target-journalist-tim-burke-with-law-intended-for-hackers/?

Former CBS News reporter Elizabeth Herridge charged with #contempt of court and $800 a day fine for refusing to divulge a government source used in a 2017 report on a Chinese-American scientist who is now suing the federal government. #Journalism https://apnews.com/article/catherine-herridge-journalist-contempt-fox-news-cbs-63f6b2cde67fceae192daebe5d11b1a1

"The #prison has been embroiled in allegations of a reputed “rape club” among guards that targeted inmates, along with accusations of repeated retaliation by guards against inmates who spoke up about the alleged misdeeds". #FCIDublin https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/27/no-contempt-order-against-scandal-plagued-dublin-womens-prison-but-judge-signals-potential-interest-in-new-oversight/?

"Despite the passage of AB 490, training manuals for the Antioch Police Department, Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department and the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department say that positional #asphyxia is "the subject of debate among experts and medical professionals.” https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/deadly-restraint-despite-decades-of-warnings-police-continue-holding-people-facedown

Chicago PD fires bullets at a child with fireworks after faulty #Shotspotter alert. https://jinxpress.org/no-its-just-fireworks-chicago-cop-opens-fire-on-child-with-fireworks-after-shotspotter-gunshot-alert/

"Nearly 70 percent of people who live in a neighborhood with at least one SoundThinking sensor identified in the ACS data as either Black or Latine. Nearly three-quarters of these neighborhoods are majority nonwhite, and the average household earns a little more than $50,000 a year". #Shotspotter #GunshotDetection #Surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/shotspotter-secret-sensor-locations-leak/?

SF Police Commission goes ahead with the ban on #pretext stops approved a year ago after the SF Police Officers Association declares an "impasse" in meet and confer negotiations. https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/sf-police-commission-restricts-pretext-stops-union-objections/

“It depends how you do them, right?” Larsen said. “So if it’s [like] London? Fuck no, that’s crazy. New York, too — they go way too far.” That is the point of the #surveillance ordinance he is donating big bucks to dismantle via Prop E. Confused billionaires are the worst. #NoOnPropE https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/prop-e-police-surveillance-sf/

Bill in the Missouri state senate would ban the use of fixed license plate readers in the state. "St. Charles County Councilmember Joe Brazil told First Alert 4 last year why he voted no on expanding the technology in St. Charles County. “It’s too much government intrusion. I mean how far are they gonna go,” #ALPR https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/02/20/without-that-technology-it-hinders-our-investigations-police-pushback-missouri-bill-banning-license-plate-reading-cameras/

“The amount of people who are surprised by how much data goes elsewhere is a sign that 23andMe isn’t explaining things very clearly,” he said". #DNA #Ancestry #data https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/23andme-dna-data-security-finance

"In an argument that appeared to flabbergast a small claims adjudicator in British Columbia, the airline attempted to distance itself from its own #chatbots bad advice by claiming the online tool was "a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416