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On the agenda: Livingston Township meeting — license plate reader (Mar 13)
The published agenda for the March 13, 2023 meeting contains: "license plate reader". The meeting has passed. The agenda stays here as a permanent public record.
Agenda Watch · archivedOpen the record →
East Bay Township to consider license plate surveillance cameras
CoverageOpen the record →
USU presents predictive policing at public safety conference
GDELT: predictive policing
CoverageOpen the record →
License plate camera technology presented to Adrian City Commission
Council FightsOpen the record →
Asees Kaur on the Invisible Biases of Predictive Policing Systems | Meta India Tech Scholars 2021-22
GDELT: Predictive Policing
CoverageOpen the record →
License plate readers can track car thieves across NJ. Why that worries privacy advocates
CoverageOpen the record →
License plate readers assist Green Bay police
CoverageOpen the record →
MSG sues State Liquor Authority as facial recognition battle bubbles over
GDELT: facial recognition
Courts & LawsuitsOpen the record →
Opinion | Facial recognition technology shouldn't get ahead of principles
GDELT: Facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Progressive Charlestown: ACLU Obtains Docs Detailing FBI, Pentagon Development of Facial Recognition Tech
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Opinion : San Diego police streetlight surveillance camera plan has fans and foes
CoverageOpen the record →
Dubuque police chief recommends installation of cameras to track license plates
Misuse & AbuseOpen the record →
Do cities’ proliferating Flock license-plate cameras violate people’s privacy? Editorial Board Roundtable
CoverageOpen the record →
Facial Recognition-based Attendance Soon At Ku | Ranchi News
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Shreveport reveals Real Time Crime Center cameras in violation of law, must be replaced
GDELT: Real Time Crime Center
Laws & PolicyOpen the record →
Little Rock Police Department secures more license plate readers
CoverageOpen the record →
Chinese automaker's facial recognition requires drivers to kneel down in front of bumper to activate
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Body cams, automated plate readers coming this year: Chatham-Kent police
GDELT: plate readers
CoverageOpen the record →
Black Diamond looks to install license plate readers on roads
New DeploymentsOpen the record →
36 New License Plate Cameras Coming to Rockford
New DeploymentsOpen the record →
FBI has been testing facial recognition software on Americans for YEARS without their knowledge or consent
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
FBI Has Been Testing Facial Recognition Software on Americans for YEARS Without Their Knowledge or Consent – Investment Watch
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Which Stores Are Scanning Your Face? No One Knows.
GDELT: facial-recognition
CoverageOpen the record →
Ban Facial Recognition Technology
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Vernon Hills expands use of automated license plate readers
New DeploymentsOpen the record →
Prairie Village receives grant to pay for license plate readers
CoverageOpen the record →
Details Emerging On Stingray Technology, Allowing Feds To Locate People By Pretending To Be Cell Towers
GDELT: Stingray
CoverageOpen the record →
Baltimore PD Has Deployed Stingray Devices Over 4,300 Times, Instructed By FBI To Withhold Info From Courts
GDELT: Stingray
Courts & LawsuitsOpen the record →
DOJ Says Federal Agents Must Seek Warrants For Stingrays; Forbids Collection Of Communications
GDELT: Stingray
CoverageOpen the record →
DHS Deploying Stingrays Hundreds Of Times A Year
GDELT: Stingray
New DeploymentsOpen the record →
DHS Oversight Report Says ICE, Secret Service Illegally Deployed Stingray Devices
GDELT: Stingray
ICE & ImmigrationOpen the record →
Kentucky Senate Passes Bill That Would Place Some Limits on the Use of ALPR Data
Laws & PolicyOpen the record →
San Diego Police Seek to Install 500 'Smart Streetlights'
GDELT: license-plate-reader
New DeploymentsOpen the record →
Sweaters that fool facial recognition
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Congress introduces bill to ban feds from using facial recognition
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Prairie Village to put license plate readers and traffic cameras at 25+ intersections
CoverageOpen the record →
Multimode Plate Reader | PerkinElmer Instruments | Mar 2023
GDELT: Plate Reader
CoverageOpen the record →
Bill would regulate use of facial recognition technology in state
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
California bill would regulate police use of facial recognition technology in body cams
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
New infusion center serves Sumter patients with chronic illnesses
GDELT: fusion center
CoverageOpen the record →
US Lawmakers Reintroduce Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
'Never in my life would I have expected this': Chinese man kneels before his car to activate it with facial recognition
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
ChatGPT, Predictive Policing & Co.: Streit über rote Linien in EU-KI-Verordnung
GDELT: Predictive Policing
CoverageOpen the record →
Warren, Sanders Want to Ban Racist Facial Recognition Tools From Government Use
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Norman City Council considers water rate increase , installation of license plate reading cameras
Council FightsOpen the record →
Interact with stingrays and small sharks at the Sedgwick County Zoo
GDELT: stingray
CoverageOpen the record →
Democrats Band Together to Try Yet Another Federal Facial Recognition Ban
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Democrats Propose Yet Another Federal Facial Recognition Ban
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
FBI Tested 'Truly Unconstrained' Facial Recognition Software on Americans
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Carol Kaye was recruited by Music Man to demo the first-ever StingRay – a bass she thought was better than her Fender Precision
GDELT: StingRay
CoverageOpen the record →
Chinese electric car makes driver 'get on all fours' for facial recognition
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
First Patient in Minnesota Receives TG Therapeutics' New Multiple Sclerosis Drug at Infusion Associates Outpatient Infusion Center
GDELT: fusion Center
CoverageOpen the record →
ACLU Obtains Docs Detailing FBI, Pentagon Development of Facial Recognition Tech
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Merkley, Wyden, colleagues reintroduce bill to ban govt. use of facial recognition, biometric technology
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Los Altos ALPR program postponed amid council scrutiny , concerns
Council FightsOpen the record →
The FBI, DoD and the shock of (facial) recognition
GDELT: facial-recognition
CoverageOpen the record →
Rep. Jayapal, lawmakers push to ban use of facial recognition technology by federal, state agencies
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Lawmakers Intro Bill to Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition
GDELT: Facial Recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
Law bill seeks to ban Feds' use of facial recognition tech
GDELT: facial recognition
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
WATCH: Clearview Dr. Extension Underway into New Subdivision
GDELT: Clearview
Facial RecognitionOpen the record →
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