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This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal
Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement using license plate databases.
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Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block
The future of the internet could be at stake.
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Now Is the Time for a Federal Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance
Cities and counties across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so. From Boston to San Francisco, Jackson, Mississippi to Minneapolis, elected officials and activists know that face surveillance gives police the power to track us wherever we go.
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Here is the FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data
The FBI previously purchased access to "netflow" data, which a company called Team Cymru obtains from ISPs. Team Cymru then sells it to the government.
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Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC
Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC. CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissions. The company has been repeatedly fined millions of dollars in Europe and Australia for breaches of privacy.
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The U.S. government is now using AirTags to spy on packages
Apple launched the AirTag to help track your bag or keep an eye on pets. Law enforcement agencies are now using it to clamp down on drug operations.
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Has Windows become Spyware?
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Students Rebel Against Heat-Sensing Crotch Monitor Surveillance Devices
The university installed a series of heat sensors under desks aimed roughly at crotch height, intended to detect when a human (or other suitably warm object) was sitting at a desk.
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The FBI Reportedly Came Very Close to Deploying Spyware for Domestic Investigations
While the government had previously claimed it had no interest in using spyware to investigate criminals, new reporting from the NYT suggests otherwise.
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UK police fail to use facial recognition ethically and legally, study finds
Use of live facial recognition (LFR) by UK police forces "fail[s] to meet the minimum ethical and legal standards," according to a study from the University of Cambridge. After analyzing LFR use by the Metropolitan (Met) and South Wales police, researchers concluded that the technology should be banned for use in "all public spaces." LFR pairs faces captured by security cameras to database photos to find matches. China and other non-democratic regimes have used the technology to as part of their state surveillance tools.
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Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They've Never Seen
“Releasing one of these Parabon images to the public like the Edmonton Police did recently, is dangerous and irresponsible, especially when that image implicates a Black person and an immigrant.”
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The Best Way to Use the CSS Position Property: A Step-By-Step Guide
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US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years
If a traveler's phone, tablet or computer ever gets searched at an airport, American border authorities could add data from their device to a massive database that can be accessed by thousands of government officials. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) leaders have admitted to lawmakers in a briefing that its officials are adding information to a database from as many as 10,000 devices every year, The Washington Post reports.
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Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law
The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its increasingly punitive crackdown on women’s dress.
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Flicking the kill switch: governments embrace internet shutdowns as a form of control
From Sudan to Syria, Jordan to Jaipur, the trend towards digital authoritarianism is deepening
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Apps and advertisers are coming for your lock screen, and it’s going to be exhausting
Customizing your lock screen is good, turning it into a platform is bad
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A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools
e-HallPass, a digital system that students have to use to request to leave their classroom and which takes note of how long they’ve been away.
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I went to Parliament to save Canadian YouTube (Bill C-11)
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'Ring Nation' Is Amazon's Reality Show for Our Surveillance Dystopia
Amazon's propaganda campaign to normalize surveillance is about to hit a higher gear: Wanda Sykes is going to host a new show featuring videos taken from Ring surveillance cameras, Deadline reported on Thursday. It will be called Ring Nation.
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Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK
Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day
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