I guess they weren’t as sure as they seemed.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/facial-recognition-bans-begin-to-fall-around-the-us-as-re-funding-of-law-enforcement-becomes-politically-popular/

Facial Recognition Bans Begin To Fall Around the US as Re-Funding of Law Enforcement Becomes Politically Popular

Some cities and states that were early to ban law enforcement from using facial recognition software appear to be having second thoughts, which privacy advocates with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other organizations largely attribute to an uptick in certain types of urban crime. Facial recognition bans in New Orleans and Virginia have seen at least a tentative reversal of course, with law enforcement now allowed to use the technology in some limited situations. And an attempt by the California Senate to make permanent a temporary facial recognition ban failed to pass, leaving the law set to expire at the end of 2022.

Everyone should understand how these work.

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/ciso/22/h/business-email-compromise-bec-attack-tactics.html

Business Email Compromise Attack Tactics

BEC, also known as email account compromise (EAC), is a type of email cybercrime targeting companies with the typical objective of having company funds wired into the attacker’s bank account. The five types of include: bogus invoices, CEO fraud (impersonating a c-level employee to ask coworkers for money), account compromise, attorney impersonation, and data theft.

May reveal capabilities any police organization may have.

https://www.pogowasright.org/parliaments-top-security-committee-to-probe-rcmps-use-of-spyware/

Parliament’s top security committee to probe RCMP’s use of spyware

Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Maura Forrest report:

A top-secret committee of Canadian parliamentarians has launched an investigation into the national police force’s use of spyware to conduct covert surveillance.

The all-party National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), chaired by Liberal MP David McGuinty, will conduct a “framework review” of the “lawful interception of communications by security and intelligence organizations.”

Read more at Politico.

[From the article:

The issue came to light after POLITICO’s revelation in June that the RCMP had admitted to using spyware to hack mobile devices. The police force has the ability to intercept text messages, emails, photos, videos, financial records and other information from cellphones and laptops, and to remotely turn on a device’s camera and microphone.