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Amazon doubles down on face surveillance, files patent for scary new tech

12/05/2018 - Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Biometrics, Corporate Spying, Mass Surveillance, Security Theater

A new patent application filed by Amazon could enable the kind of dystopian face tracking envisioned in the movies and sci-fi books, where thousands of cameras are linked to track one person as they move through a city. The patent application, published...
Did you mean, “male lawyer”? On language translators and gender bias

11/16/2018 - Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has insisted that naming is an exertion of power. Powerful elites have long used naming and classifying not only to legitimize knowledge, but also to perpetuate and reproduce harmful and oppressive historical practices. Language can liberate, but it can...

Amazon doubles down on face surveillance, files patent for scary new tech