Zachary McCoy used an exercise-tracking app, RunKeeper, to record his rides.. image: Agnes Lopez / for NBC News
Big data when used without limits or oversight often results in privacy breaches and wrongful assumptions.
Police can now get personal details of individuals after a geofence warrant without them being a suspect already.
Google said in a court filing last year that the requests from state and federal law enforcement authorities were increasing rapidly: by more than 1,500 percent from 2017 to 2018, and by 500 percent from 2018 to 2019.
In this case luckily his parents could help pay for a lawyer to get an injunction to prevent more of his data being released to police and the lawyer helped prove the “John Doe” had nothing to do with it.
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Stop Facial Recognition in Canada
- Ottawa police admit officers tested Clearview AI facial recognition software, Ottawa Citizen
- The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It, The New York Times
- Ottawa police admit officers tested Clearview AI facial recognition software, Ottawa Citizen
- Liberals should halt police and private use of Clearview AI, NDP says, The Star
