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A trio of Republican senators on Tuesday proposed legislation that requires service providers and device makers in America to help the Feds bypass encryption when presented with a court-issued warrant. The law bill [PDF] is dubbed the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, which uncharacteristically cannot be condensed into a pandering acronym.
A top judge told a barrister for the UK Information Commissioner's Office today that his legal arguments against police facial-recognition technology face "a great difficulty" as he wondered whether they were even relevant to the case. In plain English, Facenna was saying that South Wales Police's legal justification for deploying facial-recognition tech, as detailed yesterday, didn't comply with the Human Rights Act-guaranteed right to privacy - nor the Data Protection Act 2018 section, which states: "The processing of personal data for any of the law enforcement purposes is lawful only if and to the extent that it is based on law."
Twitter has permanently banned the account of Distributed Denial of Secrets after it posted links to stolen information belonging to hundreds of law enforcement organizations in the United States. Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-style organization whose goal is the "Free transmission of data in the public interest," recently leaked roughly 270 GB of information on more than 200 police departments, fusion centers, the FBI and other law enforcement organizations.
Automated facial recognition use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff. Squires is barrister for one Ed Bridges, who, backed by human rights pressure group Liberty, wants to overturn a judicial review ruling from 2019 which failed to halt facial recognition tech use against him by South Wales Police.
DDoSecret - a journalist collective known as a more transparent alternative to Wikileaks - published hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from law enforcement, totaling nearly 270 gigabytes, on Juneteenth. On Friday, DDoSecrets said on Twitter that the BlueLeaks archive indexes "Ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources", including "Police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more."
Known as BlueLeaks, the info trove consists mostly of crime intelligence material uploaded to what are known as fusion centers. Created in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, serve as a way for state and county cops to share information with one another and with the FBI and US Homeland security.
Thousands of sensitive police department files - including police and FBI reports - were published on Friday by DDoSecrets, a self-proclaimed "Transparency collective" that publishes covert data. DDoSecrets said on Twitter that it contains ten years of data, from over 200 police departments, law enforcement training and support resources and fusion centers, which are state-owned entities that gather public safety data.
Those running VMWare guest machines on Mac will want to update their software to get a security fix for VMware Tools. Earlier this month, Microsoft dropped its usual boatload of Patch Tuesday updates, sans a set for Office for Mac.
A group of hacktivists and transparency advocates has published a massive 269 GB of data allegedly stolen from more than 200 police departments, fusion centers, and other law enforcement agencies across the United States. Dubbed BlueLeaks, the exposed data leaked by the DDoSecrets group contains hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents from the past ten years with official and personal information.
Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. In a post on Twitter, DDoSecrets said the BlueLeaks archive indexes "Ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources," and that "Among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more."