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Predictive policing brings burglary numbers down, but is privacy at risk?
Police in LA are embracing "predictive policing" to identify crime hot spots based on past crimes and patterns. The technology seems to be working, but what does it mean for our civil liberties?
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Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's email gets a whopping ten years in prison
The crook who cracked into the email of numerous celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, has been sent to prison. Is there anything the rest of us can learn from this? Find out more...
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Hollywood hospital fires six for snooping into patient records
The employees, who worked at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, used doctors' logins (which they shouldn't have given out in the first place) to access patient data without authorization. If private...
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‘Fixed’ app that fights parking tickets ‘blocked’ in 3 cities
"Xerox did it, not us!" says San Francisco, whose parking revenues are threatened by the citation-protest streamlining app.
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Using license plate readers to shame men suspected of soliciting prostitutes
LA City Council is considering sending letters to the homes of men suspected of soliciting prostitutes. They're hoping that the mail will be opened by the mothers, wives and girlfriends of men who park...
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Underwear thief used Instagram location data to find victim’s homes
Dirty, clean, some from male roommates: it was an undies-thieving, electronics-grabbing spree, all enabled by location data in shared images.
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Two LA drone pilots face fines and possible imprisonment
One drone allegedly forced an LAPD air unit to change its landing path, while the other was flying too close to hospital heliports.
View ArticleLos Angeles to use body scanners on metro riders
Subway and bus riders will be randomly scanned as the city becomes the first in the country to use the technology to thwart suicide bombers.
View ArticleLA sues The Weather Channel over selling users’ location data
The app is accused of being a “location data company powered by weather” and profiting from users' data without being upfront about it.
View ArticleUber to file federal suit against LA over users’ real-time location data
Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn't good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it's good for is surveillance.
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