U.S. agency: Pandemic masks thwarting face recognition tech
Having a tough time recognizing your neighbors behind their pandemic masks? Computers are finding it more difficult, too.
Jul 28, 2020
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Facebook bumps up offer to $650 million to settle facial recognition class action
Facebook has agreed to pay $650 million—$100 million more than before—to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology.
Jul 24, 2020
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NY lawmakers vote to pause facial recognition in schools
The New York Legislature has passed a two-year moratorium on the use of facial recognition in schools.
Jul 23, 2020
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Germany seizes server hosting pilfered US police files
At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach ...
Jul 09, 2020
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Police partnerships with Amazon Ring raise alarms about racial bias, privacy
As nationwide protests force a deep examination of police tactics and funding, technology companies say they are re-evaluating their relationship with law enforcement as well. Amazon has halted police use of its facial recognition ...
Jul 08, 2020
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Data-mining firm Palantir files for stealth public offering
The Silicon Valley data-mining firm Palantir Technologies confidentially filed to go public, setting up what could be the biggest stock offering from a technology company since Uber's debut last year.
Jul 07, 2020
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Facebook, others block requests on Hong Kong user data
Social media platforms and messaging apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google and Twitter will deny law enforcement requests for user data in Hong Kong as they assess the effect of a new national security law enacted ...
Jul 06, 2020
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Amid reckoning on police racism, algorithm bias in focus
A wave of protests over law enforcement abuses has highlighted concerns over artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition which critics say may reinforce racial bias.
Jul 05, 2020
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European police crack encrypted phones, arrest hundreds
European police delivered a major blow to organized crime after cracking an encrypted communications network, allowing them to covertly watch "over the shoulder" of criminals in real time as they planned drug trafficking, ...
Jul 02, 2020
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Zoom got big fast. Then videobombers made it rework security
intrusive "videobombers" barged into private meetings or just spied on intimate conversations.
Jul 01, 2020
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Law enforcement agency
In North American English, a Law enforcement agency (LEA) is an organisation that enforces the law.
Outside North America, such organisations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police, others have other names (e.g. sherriff's department; investigative police services in the USA are often called bureaus (e.g. FBI, ICE, ATF, DEA, USSS, SBI, etc.).)
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