The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

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A WIRED investigation this week found that a former Phoenix police officer who owns a company that offers firearms training to Immigration and Customs enforcement was involved in six shootings, four of which were deadly. Meanwhile, a New York police officer’s lawyer has been banned from Madison Square Garden amid a lawsuit the cop filed over injuries sustained during a boxing match at an MSG venue.The Take It Down Act went into effect in the United States this week, allowing people to demand that websites and other platforms remove their nonconsensual nudes. WIRED reached out to more than a dozen companies to give you a rundown on how to take action. If you’re trying to opt out of having your data collected by data brokers and other companies, however, the process might not be so simple. New research claims that many major companies used manipulative tactics to keep people from opting out.The Federal Trade Commission this week announced a settlement with three marketing firms—not because they sold “Active Listening” technology for serving targeted advertising, but because the technology allegedly did not work.A bipartisan pair of US lawmakers this week took an initial stab at cracking down on automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs. Their legislation would have effectively prevented state and local governments from using the surveillance tech for police tracking.GitHub, the popular Microsoft-owned code repository, suffered a data breach this week. The attack is part of a never-before-seen string of similar breaches carried out by the cybercrime group TeamPCP.Finally, as the Trump administration and US tech companies have grown increasingly intertwined, European nations are looking for US-free alternatives, with France leading the charge.And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.While US lawmakers stealthily proposed to prohibit t...