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Coronavirus Bracelets Are Ready to Snitch on Workers
SURVEILLANCE FIRMS around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products: the tracking bracelet. Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall Street crooks under house arrest and menace-to-society parolees.
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Scientists working on an artificial eye that works like a real one
Scientists have been working for years to create an artificial eye that will be able to mimic the shape and behavior of the real eye. Of course it is an extremely difficult task, but it seems that they have finally found the right path to it. The result is an artificial eye whose functions and structure largely mimic the human eye. This eye is powered by a network of nano photo-sensors placed inside a spherical alumina membrane that “plays” the retina, while a network formed of an alloy of liquid metal replicates the nerves through which signals are sent from the sensor to the external processor.
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Russia to Install ‘Orwell’ Facial Recognition Tech in Every School
More than 43,000 Russian schools will be equipped with facial recognition cameras ominously named “Orwell,” the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday. The state technology firm Rusnano’s Orwell platform is described as a image-recognition monitoring system that uses computer vision algorithms. It will be integrated with face recognition developed by NTechLab, a subsidiary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s close associate Sergei Chemezov’s Rostec conglomerate.
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Instagram could face up up to $500 billion in fines in class-action lawsuit alleging it illegally harvested biometric data
Instagram is accused of illegally harvesting people's biometric data without their knowledge or consent in a new class action lawsuit filed against Facebook, Instagram's parent company.
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'Every City Council Should Follow Suit': Portland, Oregon Becomes First US City to Ban Corporate Use of Facial Recognition Surveillance
In a historic move that privacy advocates said must be replicated nationwide, the Portland, Oregon city council on Wednesday unanimously approved a sweeping ban on the use of facial recognition surveillance by public agencies as well as private businesses "in places of public accommodation."
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Over 1,000 parents sign open letter protesting facial recognition in schools
This morning, Fight for the Future, a nonprofit advocacy group promoting causes related to privacy, censorship, and copyright legislation, published a letter calling for a ban on facial recognition in U.S. schools. The open letter, which is addressed to lawmakers and school administrators around the country, has gained 1,000 signatures from parents in 50 states in less than a week. It highlights the dangers of surveillance and risks associated with data compromise, as well as ways facial recognition might exacerbate discrimination against specific groups of students.
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Top 2 Ways To Pick A Lock on A Door - Mr Delu Official
Now I will teach you how to pick a lock on a door two methods that will make you wonder. Because these two tricks will free your life a lot of hassle free. You can easily lock or unlock a door by following this procedure.
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Honda says will be first to mass produce level 3 autonomous cars
Japan’s Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it will be the world’s first automaker to mass produce sensor-packed level 3 autonomous cars that will allow drivers to let their vehicles navigate congested expressway traffic. “Honda is planning to launch sales of a Honda Legend (luxury sedan) equipped with the newly approved automated driving equipment” before the end of March 2021, Honda said in a press release.
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Massachusetts on the verge of becoming first state to ban police use of facial recognition
Massachusetts lawmakers this week voted to ban the use of facial recognition by law enforcement and public agencies in a sweeping police reform bill that received significant bipartisan support. If signed into law, Massachusetts would become the first state to fully ban the technology, following bans barring the use of facial recognition in police body cameras and other, more limited city-specific bans on the tech.
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The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2021
Spoiler: We’re looking at another year of internet services dominating many aspects of our lives.
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A wristband that tells your boss if you are unhappy
At first glance the silicone wristband could be mistaken for one that tracks your heart rate when you are doing exercise. However, the wearable technology, called a Moodbeam, isn't here to monitor your physical health. Instead it allows your employer to track your emotional state.
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Citizens are turning face recognition on unidentified police
The new series of our AI podcast, In Machines We Trust, is all about face recognition. In part one of the series, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the unexpected ways the technology is being used, including how it is being turned on police.
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Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here
In a crop of viral videos featuring Tom Cruise, it's not the actor's magic trick nor his joke-telling that's deceptive — but the fact that it's not actually Tom Cruise at all. The videos, uploaded to TikTok in recent weeks by the account @deeptomcruise, have raised new fears over the proliferation of believable deepfakes — the nickname for media generated by artificial intelligence technology showing phony events that often seem realistic enough to dupe an audience.
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Facial recognition should be banned, EU privacy watchdog says
Facial recognition should be banned in Europe because of its "deep and non-democratic intrusion" into people's private lives, EU privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said on Friday.
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US Federal Regulation On Face Recognition As Early As Next Week?
Just over a week after Amazon extended its ban on sales of facial recognition technology to US law enforcement indefinitely, there is a sense that federal law may soon be passed in this regard. Forty advocacy groups had written to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy (AWS head and soon to be Amazon CEO) earlier this month, demanding a permanent ban on the US Police using the company's facial recognition software, ‘Rekognition'.
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Want your unemployment benefits? You may have to submit to facial recognition first
After being let go from his job as a software quality-assurance engineer in April, Eric Watkins said he filed for unemployment benefits in Colorado. But he hasn't received a penny of the $6,490 he said he was eligible to receive and he's not sure when he will.
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Xiaomi announces Mix 4 with under-display camera
Xiaomi has announced the Mix 4, the first phone in the Mi Mix series to be announced in nearly three years. The Mix phones have always been about bezel-less designs with seamless screens, and the Mix 4 carries on that idea by commercializing a technology that Xiaomi has been working on for a long time: a selfie camera that’s located directly under the screen.
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Ten federal agencies are expanding their use of facial recognition
The Government Accountability Office has revealed in a new report that 10 federal agencies are planning to expand their use of facial recognition. In a survey involving 24 federal agencies on their use of facial recognition technology, the Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Interior, Justice, State, Treasury and Veterans Affairs departments told GAO that they're planning to use facial recognition in more areas through fiscal year 2023.
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Amazon's cashierless 'Just Walk Out' tech is coming to Whole Foods stores
After launching it in Go stores and then bringing it to larger Fresh supermarkets, Amazon's cashierless "Just Walk Out" tech will soon arrive in two Whole Foods locations. The service, which lets you pick up goods from shelves and (yep) just walk out, is coming to new stores in Washington DC and Sherman Oaks, California next year, the company announced.
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The Israeli army is using facial recognition to track Palestinians, former soldiers reveal
The Israeli military has deployed an extensive facial recognition program to track Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to a new report by The Washington Post. Former Israeli soldiers told the Post about a smartphone technology called “Blue Wolf,” which takes photos of Palestinians and stores them in a large-scale database. Once an image is captured, Blue Wolf matches that picture to a person in its database, and as the Post describes, soldiers’ phones will then flash a specific color that signifies if that individual should be arrested, detained, or left undisturbed.
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