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Report: Atlanta Police Body Camera Policy Needs Revising
"Harlan Yu, who worked on the civil rights report, said the report is meant to help communities. “You know what we've been hearing from departments ac…
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Police endanger civil rights with body camera policies, report says
"The only cities to earn uniformly negative results were Atlanta and Ferguson, a city the group chose to examine in the wake of the controversy following t…
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If We Want to Throw Body Cameras on Every Police Officer, We're Going to Need Better Laws
""Every department has room to improve, even the best in the nation," Harlan Yu, principal at civil rights consulting firm Upturn, told Mic. &quo…
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
"“This is a pretty big deal for law enforcement,” says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford fellow in computer science and law whose research into Google’s circumven…
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Civil Rights Scorecard Analyzes Police Body Cameras, Governance
"Harlan Yu, principle with communications consultant Upturn, said that pre-report viewing -- viewing footage prior to the filing of an officer’s incident r…
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Civil rights group: Police failing to develop bodycam policies
"About a third of all departments do not make their policies public and readily available on the department's websites. And according to Harlan Yu, a t…
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Many Police Departments Have Dismal Body-Camera Laws
"Almost every department examined allowed officers to watch video of an incident before filing a report. This “gives officers an undue advantage over other…
A Quick Update: Apple, Privacy, and the All Writs Act of 1789
Here’s the latest in the encryption case we’ve been writing about in which the Justice Department is asking Magistrate Judge James Orenstein to order Apple to u…
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Faced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help
"Outside legal scholars also noted that Apple has drawn the line between a locked iOS 7 device, which may technically be able to be opened, and fully encry…
Update on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case
Last week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that questioned the government’s ability, under an ancient federal law called the…
Lawful Hacking After the Encryption Debate
The Obama administration has apparently decided not to support exceptional access proposals that would provide law enforcement with the means to access data on…
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ZeroFOX under fire for social media ‘Threat Actors’ report during Baltimore riots
"At this point in time, it’s common for police to monitor social media during such events, said UMBC cybersecurity professorRichard Forno. “It would surpr…