The Heartland Institute

San Francisco’s Municipal Transit Authority has announced it will deploy 288 surveillance cameras equipped with special software to monitor suspicious behavior in the city’s buses, trains, and 12 transport hubs. The cameras will be outfitted with BRS Labs’ AISight artificial intelligence software, which is programmed to recognize ...

Nine public interest groups have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to rule San Francisco transit authorities broke federal law in August of this year when they shut down wireless service in some of the city’s public transportation systems. As reported in the October issue of Infotech & Telecom News, San Francisco ...

The 25-five-year-old federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) doesn’t protect individuals’ data stored remotely in the Internet “cloud” (such as gmail, mobileme, and skydrive). This allows government agencies to perform warrantless searches on any data stored there for more than 180 days. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has ...