Blockchain Criminals Thought Bitcoin Was the Perfect Hiding Place, but They Thought Wrong Companies have popped up to help cops identify suspects who use Bitcoin, and savvy criminals are moving to other currencies. by Mike Orcutt 2017-09-11T15:29:00-04:00
Connectivity The FBI’s Facial Recognition Program Is Sprawling and Inaccurate Around half of all adult Americans are on the agency’s image database, and its software is incorrect 15 percent of the time. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-03-27T13:30:00-04:00
Connectivity This Is Why Encryption Is Such a Headache for Lawmakers A new report starts to quantify the effect that popular encryption products have on law enforcement. by Mike Orcutt 2017-03-03T00:00:00-05:00
Business Impact Why Congress Can’t Seem to Fix This 30-Year-Old Law Governing Your Electronic Data New questions about the FBI’s power to access data have shifted the years-long political debate over reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. by Mike Orcutt 2017-02-17T13:01:00-05:00
Connectivity Should an Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Authorities have asked Amazon to turn over data from a suspect’s Echo, raising thorny privacy questions. by Michael Reilly 2016-12-27T15:05:00-05:00
Connectivity AT&T Is Selling Law Enforcement Access to Its Customers’ Data Internal documents suggest the company charges investigators to use a tool that mines its customers’ metadata. by Michael Reilly 2016-10-25T17:05:00-04:00
Connectivity Chicago’s Experiment in Predictive Policing Isn’t Working A new report suggests that a data-driven tool meant to reduce gun violence was ignored by police and, in a few cases, may have been misused. by Michael Reilly 2016-08-19T15:20:00-04:00
Tech Policy Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race. The available evidence suggests that face matching systems don’t work equally well for different races. by Mike Orcutt 2016-07-06T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity As Apple Doubles Down on Encrypted Phones, Google Sits on Its Design for a “Digital Safe” A memory card developed by Google that upgrades a smartphone with strongly encrypted messaging and storage could improve security and trouble law enforcement. by Tom Simonite 2016-03-22T12:58:00-04:00
Connectivity The Feds Are Wrong to Warn of “Warrant-Proof” Phones Throughout history, communications have mainly been ephemeral. We need to be sure we can preserve that freedom. by Woodrow Hartzog 2016-03-17T00:00:00-04:00
