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NOLA.com
March 1, 2018
Father Bill Terry adds eight more names of victims to the New Orleans murder board outside St. Anna's Episcopal Church on Esplanade Avenue on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. The city has for years partnered with Palantir Technologies, a Silicon Valley tech company whose early clients were the CIA andÃâà...
MediaShift
February 26, 2018
The Advox Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in internet rights around the world. The Mexican government has failed to investigate allegations that government agencies used surveillance software to infect the smartphones of journalists and humanÃâà...
Engadget
February 22, 2018
Considering all of this, it's no surprise that China is already the world's biggest market for surveillance software and hardware, estimated by industry researcher IHS Markit at $6.4 billion in 2016, a figure expected to triple by 2020. China's tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are also jumping in, investingÃâà...
Business Insider Nordic
February 12, 2018
Police in Chongqing use surveillance software from another company, SenseTime. In the first 40 days, it identified 69 criminals and the company received a letter from the police crediting it with the arrests of 14 people. REUTERS/Thomas Peter. Source: Wall Street Journal. 16/22Ãâà...
CityLab
February 9, 2018
Cities from New York to Fresno have developed sophisticated real-time surveillance software that merges city camera networks with predictive policing software to try to ascertain the likelihood individuals will commit a crime. New Orleans plans to eventually expand the monitoring center to “include anÃâà...
ACLU (blog)
February 8, 2018
... buy social media surveillance software wouldn't have been the BPD's first foray into social media surveillance. Indeed, since 2014 the BPD had spent $26,698 on a social media surveillance system called Geofeedia. During that time, the department secretly monitored the social media posts of thousandsÃâà...
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