This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (Lock and Code S06E18)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… In the late 2010s, a group of sheriffs out of Pasco County, Florida, believed they could predict crime. The Sheriff’s Department there had piloted a program called “Intelligence-Led Policing” and the program would allegedly analyze disparate points of data ...

Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time...

A Planned Parenthood LA Hack Affects 400,000 Patients

Plus: A Ubiquiti hack revelation, predictive policing, and more of the week's top security news...

The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance

Its not actually banned in the EU yet -- the legislative process is much more complicated than that -- but its a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance. To respect "privacy and human dignity," MEPs said that EU lawmakers should pass a permanent ban on the automated recognition of...