Justice For All: Why the Massachusetts Legislature Should Limit Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology

By: Alex Crowley Facial recognition technology has a long history of mistaken identifications resulting in false arrests.  Robert Williams, a Black man accused of stealing watches from a luxury store, can attest to this sad reality after he was jailed overnight following an arrest largely justified by a bad match from the Detroit Police Department’s… Read More Justice For All: Why the Massachusetts Legislature Should Limit Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Recent Supreme Judicial Court Ruling a Victory for Privacy Advocates

POSTED BY Micah-Shalom Kesselman Complementing an article written by one of our very own in our most recent published issue, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts recently ruled on the issue of whether a warrant is needed to obtain cellular site location information (CSLI) from a third party under the state constitution. The lower courts… Read More Recent Supreme Judicial Court Ruling a Victory for Privacy Advocates