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What Is User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)?
… UEBA is a cybersecurity solution that uses large data sets to model network activity. It analyses both the users of a network and the network itself, such as routers and IoT devices. It then looks for suspicious activity and alerts a business whenever such activity is detected.
It achieves this by creating a baseline of what normal activity on a network looks like. It then uses machine learning to detect abnormal behavior automatically.
It's popular because many cybersecurity products are trained to primarily look for malware. Hackers can defeat such software by entering a network and simply not installing any malicious files.
In contrast to this, UEBA can look for anything abnormal. This allows it to detect more sophisticated attacks that don't match known threats.
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Bladerunner 2022? An Empirical Assessment of Mass Surveillance from a National Survey of Police Departments
While the scholarship on policing and surveillance suggests that police departments have and use a wide array of sophisticated tools, the literature has largely focused on only a handful of the largest departments. Moreover, these studies tend to be qualitative, so it is difficult to pinpoint what factors might be most predictive of police mass surveillance. Understanding the dynamics of police surveillance, and whether we are indeed at a point of police mass surveillance, is important when we consider that many of the technologies in question have been associated with privacy and civil rights-related risks, especially for traditionally disenfranchised groups. Through three separate empirical papers, I examine the scope of police surveillance capabilities today and whether there is evidence of a mass surveillance regime within the U.S. policing system. This dissertation uses the analytic strategies of descriptive statistics, survey methods, and statistical modeling to investigate the scope and nature of police surveillance capabilities when we account for factors such as department characteristics, legislative control, and demographic characteristics. In an effort to expand our empirical understanding of police surveillance capacities beyond a handful of large departments, I along with Matthew Kugler1 developed a first-of-its-kind national survey of local U.S. police departments that was fielded in the summer of 2020 with the help of CivicPulse. All three dissertation papers draw on and use this original survey data representing over 400 individual police departments from small and large jurisdictions. Chapter 1 (paper 1) uses descriptive statistics to establish a baseline rate of police surveillance access for a range of surveillance tools, including but not limited to body cameras, cell phone location technology, Stingrays, facial recognition, and more. My findings suggest that overall rates of access differ widely based on both the type of technology in question as well as the size of a police department’s jurisdiction. Departments in larger jurisdictions tends to have much higher rates of access relative to departments in small jurisdictions, though this trend does not hold for body cameras and cell phone location information. Though facial recognition and Stingrays have been the subject of scholarly concerns related to civil rights and privacy violations, I find that the percentage overall of police departments reporting having access to either of these technologies remains relatively low. Chapter 2 (paper 2) maps the extent to which states legislatures in the U.S. have passed laws related to police surveillance practices and then examines the relationship between police surveillance capacities and legislative control. My findings show that, overall, the majority of states do not have laws in place for drones, Stingrays, Facial Recognition Technology, or automatic license plate readers. Moreover, what little legislative control does exist appears to be not very effective for curtailing police access to surveillance tools. Chapter 3 (paper 3) builds on the race and policing literature and investigates whether the racial composition of an area is predictive of more police surveillance. I find that Black areas, relative to White areas, are more likely to be policed by departments with access to Body Cameras and license plate readers. I use these results to discuss implications for racial disparities and police transparency and accountability.
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Contact Tracing in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Digital Contact Tracing Affects Our Individual Rights
Amid public health crises, contact tracing becomes an imperative mechanism in combatting the threat at hand. In today’s day and age, technology has exploded, leaving the legal world to determine technologies’ effect on the law. As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc upon the world, how is contact tracing affected by the advent of modern technology, and how does the use of technology such as geolocation, artificial intelligence (AI), and facial recognition technology (FRT) comport with the rights to privacy, association, free exercise of religion, and equal protection? This paper will examine the current constitutional precedents to provide insight as to how the use of digital contact tracing would influence the rights of everyday citizens. Constitutional implications of digital contact tracing using geolocation, AI, and FRT are considered against the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments (more specifically, against freedom of religion, freedom of association, the right to privacy, and the right to equal protection). Given the novel aspects of geolocation, AI, and FRT, digital contact tracing could result in potential constitutional violations under certain circumstances. This research shows that while digital contact tracing using novel technology could be done in a legal way, there are just as many concerns to be had about potential constitutional abuses that could affect each and everyone’s lives.
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