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T969389Surveillance & Legal Terms
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Know the language. Every term below is used in court filings, council
meetings, and news reports about surveillance technology.
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ALPR T969389[Technology]
T969389Automated License Plate Reader. Camera system that photographs vehicle
T969389license plates, extracts plate numbers via OCR, and stores them with
T969389timestamp...
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Algorithmic Bias T969389[Technology]
T969389Systematic, unfair skew in an automated system's outputs against
T969389particular groups, arising from biased training data, design choices,
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Audit Log T969389[Technology]
T969389Record of who accessed a system, when, and what they did. Critical
T969389accountability mechanism for surveillance systems. Misuse cases
T969389(Braselton,...
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BSSID T969389[Technology]
T969389Basic Service Set Identifier — the unique hardware (MAC) address a
T969389Wi-Fi access point broadcasts. Because BSSIDs are globally unique and
T969389mostly...
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Biometric T969389[Technology]
T969389A measurable physical or behavioral characteristic used to identify a
T969389person - face geometry, fingerprint, iris, voiceprint, gait, or DNA.
T969389Unlike a...
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Biometric Template T969389[Technology]
T969389The mathematical representation a system extracts from a raw biometric
T969389sample - e.g. a numerical 'faceprint' vector derived from a photo -
T969389rather...
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Cell-Site Simulator T969389[Technology]
T969389A device that impersonates a legitimate cell tower to force nearby
T969389phones to connect to it, revealing their unique identifiers (IMSI) and
T969389location,...
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Cell-site Location Information T969389[Technology]
T969389CSLI. Records of which cell towers a phone connects to, revealing
T969389approximate location over time. Carpenter v. US (2018) ruled
T969389historical CSLI...
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CrimeTracer T969389[Technology]
T969389SoundThinking's law enforcement data aggregation platform (formerly
T969389Coplink X from Forensic Logic). A Third-Party Investigative Platform
T969389(TPIP)...
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Data Broker T969389[Technology]
T969389Company that collects and sells personal data. In surveillance
T969389context, companies like Fog Data Science sell location data from phone
T969389apps to law...
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Deepfake T969389[Technology]
T969389Synthetic audio, image, or video generated or manipulated by AI to
T969389convincingly depict a real person saying or doing something they did
T969389not. It...
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Digital Exhaust T969389[Technology]
T969389The trail of personal data a person generates simply by using the
T969389internet and connected services — the "consumer data" created through
T969389everyday web...
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Electronic Monitoring T969389[Technology]
T969389Court-ordered surveillance typically via ankle monitor/GPS.
T969389Increasingly used pre-trial. Creates comprehensive location record.
T969389Some jurisdictions...
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Facial Recognition T969389[Technology]
T969389Technology that identifies individuals by analyzing facial features.
T969389Used by law enforcement for suspect identification. Banned by several
T969389cities....
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False Positive / False Negative Rate T969389[Technology]
T969389A false positive wrongly matches two photos of different people; a
T969389false negative fails to match two photos of the same person. NIST's
T969389Face...
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