The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200 enforcement notices a year. Homeowners on fixed incomes are the ones holding the notices. Twice a month, a brush and bulky-waste truck rolls past a house in southern Dallas. It does not stop. Mounted on...
A German research team has shown that a passive listener sitting within range of an ordinary Wi-Fi network can recognize individual people walking through that network’s signal field, without a camera, without the target carrying a phone, and without ever joining the network. The finding is real, it is peer-reviewed, and it was presented at...
Intro City councils from Syracuse to Denver have spent the past year voting down contracts with Flock Safety, the Atlanta company whose automated license plate readers became the most visible symbol of American street-level surveillance. Activists have called the votes a privacy victory. In a growing number of those cities, the poles did not stay...
Two of the loudest election fights in Washington right now look, at first glance, like separate stories. In one, House Republicans have passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — the SAVE Act — which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections. In the other, the Department of Justice has demanded...