Search Results for ‘face recognition’ — 145 articles
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“Augmented reality”: from a photo on the street to your social security number?
CBS has published a pretty scary assessment of facial recognition technology. When paired with data mining software and publicly available data on the internet, it appears as if a dedicated and competent person could find out a whole lot about you if they simply have a photograph of your face. The story cites a recent Carnegie Mellon University/Heinz College study:
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Technology advances at accelerating speeds each year. In the United States, a lot of the best and brightest minds and research dollars are devoted to engineering new military, surveillance and law enforcement technologies. Many of these technologies of surveillance, repression and control...
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The WGA’s big win shows us the future of technology is unwritten
For years now, conventional wisdom has warned that the rise of artificial intelligence and automation will put millions of people out of work. This assumption about the future of work has largely been accepted as a fact—unavoidable, even if troubling. Earlier this...
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Dissent is Not Terrorism: Bringing local, democratic control over police surveillance in Boston
Recent reporting from Los Angeles highlights the urgent need for city councils across the United States to take control of local government surveillance operations, subjecting police spying to democratic control, oversight, transparency, and public accountability. On November 10, Boston residents have an...
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What’s the matter with the Boston Regional Intelligence Center?
What’s the BRIC? The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) is one of nearly 80 “fusion centers” the federal government’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funded and built after the 9/11 attacks. The BRIC was established in 2005, as a “counterterrorism intelligence” center...
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Can the cops record your property for eight months without a warrant? First Circuit set to decide
Yesterday the First Circuit became the first federal court of appeals to hear oral argument on the constitutionality of the warrantless placement of a secret video camera on top of a utility pole after the ACLU’s 2018 victory in the Supreme Court...
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Immigrants rights activists spotlight tech’s role in Trump’s deportation machine
Big tech companies are the beneficiaries of hundreds of millions of dollars of government contracts, many of which involve surveillance and law enforcement operations. Over the past few years, workers at large tech firms have begun flexing their civic muscles, and ringing...
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Documents shed light on how Amazon is shaping public discourse about Rekognition
Midday yesterday, activists affiliated with immigrants rights groups NWDC Resistance and Mijente donned Jeff Bezos masks outside Amazon’s Seattle Spheres building to protest the tech giant’s collaboration with ICE. The activists demanded Amazon stop marketing and selling its face surveillance technology, Rekognition,...
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Federal data protection legislation must be a floor—not a ceiling—for our digital rights
A showdown between data privacy advocates and major tech firms is heating up in Congress, with one side arguing for robust regulations outlawing data discrimination and other exploitative practices, and the other pushing for a federal law to wipe out state level...
