Three top members of an international cybercrime ring have been arrested, U.S. District Attorney Annette Hayes said Wednesday from her office in Seattle. The hackers are allegedly high-ranking members of… Read More
Amazon defended the law enforcement use cases for its facial recognition technology Friday in an effort to throw water on fears raised by civil rights activists. Matt Wood, a leader… Read More
Amazon received an unexpected delivery Monday afternoon when community leaders dropped off four big boxes of signatures urging the company to stop selling image recognition technology to law enforcement agencies.… Read More
Amazon is taking more heat for selling its facial recognition software to local law enforcement agencies. The American Civil Liberties Union is holding a press conference at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters… Read More
A showdown between Microsoft and the U.S. government will take place at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, and it could have widespread consequences for the cloud computing industry and… Read More
Taser International, makers of law enforcement technologies including body cameras, supporting software, and data storage, announced a new program and a change in identity on Wednesday. The company will now… Read More
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a warrant to search a Facebook page that organizes protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The warrant would allow police to access messages,… Read More
Uber’s reputation is getting totaled in a full-scale pileup. In the latest damning report, the New York Times claims Uber has been using a tool called Greyball to systematically evade… Read More
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, the ACLU, and privacy advocates are championing an effort to regulate and remove surveillance cameras they claim have been installed without the city’s permission or… Read More
Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is an astute listener, and police in Bentonville, Ark., are seeking her help to build a murder case, but the company doesn’t appear to be cooperating.… Read More
When it comes to innovation, government agencies have a reputation for lagging behind. At the DMV, slow adoption means little more than annoying delays — but for law enforcement, it… Read More
Last year, the FBI flew a fleet of small airplanes over Seattle and other cities. They were equipped with cameras capable of snapping thousands of high-resolution photographs, and may have… Read More
Twitter has made it easier to report threats made on the social network to law enforcement agencies with a new feature it launched today. Once a user has reported abuse… Read More
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested on child pornography charges after Microsoft tipped off law enforcement that he had uploaded a pair of illicit images to his OneDrive account, according… Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that law enforcement officers need to get a search warrant before they can rifle through the contents of someone’s smartphone. Chief Justice John… Read More