Surveillance
All Spying All the Time
During this summer of madness in Portland, Oregon, and sadness over COVID-19, two below-the-radar events occurred implicating the insatiable appetite of the United States government to spy on everyone in America. Regular readers of this column know that the feds have...
DHS Worried Widespread Mask Use Will Thwart Government Facial Recognition
There has been a lot of controversy over masks, but no matter what you think about the efficacy of face coverings in preventing the spread of COVID-19, there is one advantage to masking up. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed concern that...
My Lawsuit Is Over; Here’s the Surveillance Tech the Lexington Police Department Is Hiding
After over two-and-a-half years of legal wrangling, the lawsuit filed against me by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government is over and I am going to reveal what I know about the Lexington Police Department’s super-secret cameras. After several months of...
Detroit Police Chief Admits Facial Recognition Rarely Provides an Accurate Match
DETROIT, Mich. (July 22, 2020) – During a public meeting last month, Detroit Police Chief James Craig admitted that the city’s facial recognition technology rarely provides a direct match and misidentifies people the vast majority of the time. Detroit paid...