ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Did you buy a beanie from REI recently? The Department of Homeland Security might be looking for you. New court filings allege […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
Leah Feiger: All right. Do you guys remember George Santos? Brian Barrett: How could I forget? Zoë Schiffer: Absolutely do, but wow, […]
This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
Flock tells WIRED that officers cannot run searches using prohibited attributes, including religion and nationality, and that an attempt to search prohibited […]
How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, a prosperous suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, is home to about 67,000 people, served by about 120 local police officers. It also […]
A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
In recent months, there has been a surge in reports of police officers misusing automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sold by Flock […]
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private […]
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
WIRED analyzed the software by examining code Flock served from its own login portals. Loading those pages returned a user interface for […]
Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
And through using this secure execution environment, you can have a cryptographic guarantee that nobody else along the pipeline could look at […]
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue […]
CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Internal records obtained by WIRED reveal how, for years, United States Customs and Border Protection employees and contractors were accused of abusing […]