Garance Burke, KOTA Territory News

Garance Burke

KOTA Territory News

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Past articles by Garance:

Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

Several civil rights complaints were filed in the fall about the Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which is used to help social workers decide which families to investigate, AP has learned. → Read More

Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

Several civil rights complaints were filed in the fall about the Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which is used to help social workers decide which families to investigate, AP has learned. → Read More

Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

Several civil rights complaints were filed in the fall about the Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which is used to help social workers decide which families to investigate, AP has learned. → Read More

Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

Several civil rights complaints were filed in the fall about the Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which is used to help social workers decide which families to investigate, AP has learned. → Read More

Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance

JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic. → Read More

White House unveils artificial intelligence 'Bill of Rights'

The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals Tuesday aimed at averting... → Read More

White House unveils artificial intelligence ‘Bill of Rights’

The office said the white paper represents a major advance in the administration’s agenda to hold technology companies accountable. → Read More

White House unveils artificial intelligence ‘Bill of Rights’

The office said the white paper represents a major advance in the administration’s agenda to hold technology companies accountable. → Read More

Senators push to reform police's cellphone tracking tools

By JASON DEAREN and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant. Concerns about police use of → Read More

Senators push to reform police's cellphone tracking tools

Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant. Concerns about police use of the tool known as “Fog Reveal” raised in an investigation by The Associated Press published earlier this… → Read More

Wyden, other senators push to reform police's cellphone tracking tools

Although police have used it to search through hundreds of billions of records, the "Fog Reveal" tool is rarely mentioned in court documents. → Read More

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. → Read More

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina... → Read More

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. → Read More

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. → Read More

Oregon will stop using AI tool for child abuse cases

Officials said the state will stop using an algorithm to flag potential cases and instead switch to a more racially equitable process. → Read More

An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

An Associated Press review has identified a number of concerns about the technology, including questions about its reliability and its potential to harden racial disparities in the child welfare system. → Read More

An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

For family law attorney Robin Frank, defending parents at one of their lowest points — when they risk losing their children — has never been easy. → Read More

An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

Inside a cavernous stone fortress in downtown Pittsburgh, attorney Robin Frank defends parents at one of their lowest points – when they are at risk of losing their children. The job is never easy, but in the past she knew what she was up against when squaring off against child protective services in family court. → Read More

How AI gunshot-detector tech landed man in jail with scant evidence

CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams' wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His three daily calls to her had become a lifeline, but when they dwindled to two, then one, then only a few a week, the 65-year-old Williams felt he couldn't go on. He… → Read More